Historic Pensacola Village


Pensacola's rich colonial history spans more than 450 years. This fascinating and attractive village is a self-contained enclave of photogenic historic homes turned into museums: it's the perfect starting point for familiarizing yourself with the city. Admission is good for one week and includes a guided tour and entrance to each building.


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1. Pensacola Children's Museum

0.08 MILES

Learn about more than 450 years of local history and have some fun along the way in this compact museum occupying two floors of the historic (and…

2. Voices of Pensacola

0.09 MILES

Part oral history archive, part interpretive center, this museum highlights, via videos and audio recordings, the different cultural groups that have…

3. TT Wentworth Jr Florida State Museum

0.09 MILES

Housed in an enormous historic mansion, this state museum showcases two floors of Florida and Pensacola history, and one floor of Wentworth's collection…

4. Pensacola Museum of Art

0.13 MILES

In the city's old jail (1908), this lovely art museum features an impressive, growing collection of major 20th- and 21st-century artists, spanning cubism,…

5. Bay Bluffs Park

4.13 MILES

Off Pensacola Scenic Bluffs Hwy, this 32-acre park has wooden boardwalks that lead you along the side of the steep bluffs, through clutches of live oaks,…

6. Shoreline Park UFO Spotting

4.49 MILES

Maybe it's activity from the nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station, but this stretch of the gulf has apparently had hundreds of UFO sightings in the past few…

7. Naval Live Oaks Reservation

5.81 MILES

This section of Gulf Islands National Seashore doesn't actually contain (much) seashore – instead, it consists of groves of local maritime hammock (forest…

8. Fort Barrancas & Advanced Redoubt

6.66 MILES

On a dramatic bluff overlooking Pensacola Bay, 19th-century Fort Barrancas was built by slaves atop an abandoned 18th-century Spanish fort. The fort, now…