The Tampa Museum of Art ...

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Walking across the Hillsborough River Bridge to get to the museum ...

The Tampa Museum of Art was designed by Stanley Saitowitz, a San Francisco architect who has designed distinctive architecture in San Francisco. The building has 66,000 square feet that includes eight galleries providing 14,000 square feet for art exhibitions.


Located in downtown Tampa the museum opened on February 6, 2010. February 2010 was one of the coldest on record in Tampa with temperatures on average 10 degrees below normal. Note the color of the grass and people's dress.


Museum Park & Buildings Around The Museum . Glazer Children's Museum is located next to the art museum ...


Art Light Show

Aluminum panels that sheath the top of the exterior. From a distance, they look solid but close up you'll see they are pierced with 900,000 circles. Under the 900,000 circles are LED light panels. Art light show weekends at 6:30 at night.






No pictures are allowed in museum galleries, only the lobby ...


Rainbows ...
One of the museum's features is a Dog Park and observation baloney...


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The Florida Aquarium ...

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The Florida Aquarium ...
The Florida Aquarium opened it's doors to the public in March of 1995, now serving millions of residents and visitors to the Tampa Bay area. Designed by consultants from New England, National and Monterey Bay aquariums. It is rated in the top ten aquariums in the U.S. ...


Coral Reef Tunnel
500,000 gallon tank ...
The exhibit is modeled after the coral formations off the Florida Keys.
Coral sea fans, elkhorn coral and sponges ...
Fish ... moray eels, squirrelfish, angelfish, blue tang and many more ...

Coral Reefs

Moon Jellies
Can be recognized by its four horseshoe-shaped reproductive organs. They feed by collecting medusae, plankton and mollusks that get caught up in their poison-containing tentacles. Jellies float on the surface of oceans and in large harbors from Alaska to Florida. Muscles allow the animal to pulsate in order to move.

Shark Bay
Shark Bay is a 93,000-gallon saltwater exhibit home to shark species and sea turtles ...
Captain of an imaginary submarine and divers take visitors on tour of the shark tank ...

Penguin Promenade
African Black-footed penguins ...





Bay & Beaches
Florida Bays are home to bonnethead sharks, spiny lobster, southern stingrays, cownose rays, gray angelfish, sergeant major, and snook.


Florida's Springs


Wetlands Walkway - Mangrove Forests & Streams

Fresh and saltwater mingle in a maze of mangrove trees and water channels. Birds, fish, and animals common in these forests are: herons, egrets, spoonbills, pelican, cormorant, red drum, snook, nurse sharks, gray snappers, sunfish, gar, hardhead sea catfish.

Florida Gar
Gars are armored with hard, diamond-shaped scales.
Alligators are one of the few predators that can crunch through gar scales ...

Wetlands Show
Wetland Birds
Antique Aquariums
Up On The Roof

Koi Pond & view of SS American Victory liberty ship ...

The SS American Victory is a museum, and was one of 534 Victory ships built between mid-1944 and mid-1946 ...

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