History In the Making
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Hermann Trappman Exhibit Opens
June 21, 2010 – At an early age, Hermann Trappman became fascinated with the origins of Florida and its early inhabitants. Eventually, he turned to art to express his findings about the distant past. As he acquired more scientific information, his illustrations became increasingly accurate...
Tampa Bay History Opens Research Center
June 12, 2009 – The Tampa Bay History Center, together with the Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System, is pleased to announce the opening of the Currie B. and Lavinia Sparkman Witt Research Center, located on the 2nd floor of the Tampa Bay History Center...
Tampa Bay History Center Seeks Young Volunteers
June 12, 2009 – The Tampa Bay History Center is currently accepting applications from students ages 13-17 to join its summer 2009 Youth Volunteer Group...
Tampa Bay History Center Presents Final Lecture in Series
June 4, 2009 – The Tampa Bay History Center is hosting its final lecture in the current Florida Conversations Series on Sunday, June 21st at 3:00 p.m. The lecture features author Martin Dyckman whose topic is “What’s all this Fuss About an Independent Florida Judiciary?”...
Tampa Bay History Center’s Group Features Award-winning Journalist’s Book
May 7, 2009 – The Tampa Bay History Center will be hosting its monthly Book Group featuring Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories About Real Florida by Jeff Klinkenberg on Thursday, May 14, 2009 from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. The program is free and open to the public...
Tampa Bay History Center Hosts Emancipation Day Celebration
May 6, 2009 – The Tampa Bay History Center, together with the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is celebrating Florida Emancipation Day on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. The program is free and open to the public...
Nation’s Foremost Civil War Historian to Speak April 18
April 3, 2009 – The nation’s leading authority on the Civil War, James I. “Bud” Robertson, Jr., Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at Virginia Tech and the Executive Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, will speak in Teco Hall at the Tampa Bay History Center, 801 Old Water St., Tampa, on Saturday, April 18, 2009...
Tampa Bay History Center To Unveil Port Exhibit
January 5, 2009 – Executives from the Tampa Port Authority, Mosaic and the Tampa Bay History Center will come together to unveil renderings of the History Center’s new port exhibit...
New Museum To Move In Large Scale Icons And 1920S Car On Tuesday
Dec. 23, 2008 – Fourteen large-scale art icons representing many facets of our region and its history will be installed from the ceiling of the Tampa Bay History Center’s atrium on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ...
Topping Out Ceremony Marks Final Construction Milestone
June 10, 2008 – Dignitaries, special guests, board members and employees gathered with more than 200 Walbridge construction workers to celebrate the last milestone of construction work before the December grand opening; the topping-out of the Tampa Bay History Center...
History Center Adds Two New Members To Board
April 23, 2008 – The Tampa Bay History Center has elected two new members to its board, Judge E.J. Salcines and Gary W. Harrod...
History Center Begins Preparations For Move To New Home
March 26, 2008 – The Tampa Bay History Center announced today that on March 31, 2008 it will be closing its preview center in order to begin staging for the move into its new 60,000-square-foot home in the Channelside district...
History Center Adds Three New Trustees To Board
November 7, 2007 – The Tampa Bay History Center has elected three new trustees to its board – Steve Raney, Santiago C. Corrada and Jose Vivero...
Construction Contract Awarded for Tampa Bay History Center
September 6, 2007 – The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners voted today to approve the contract with Walbridge Aldinger Company for construction of the Tampa Bay History Center...
