Pinewood Cultural Park
Article published on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007 |
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| Pinewood Cultural Park includes The Florida Botanical Gardens, Gulf Coast Museum of Art and Heritage Village. Larger Map & Brochure |
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• The Florida Botanical Gardens is a public garden which is also home to Pinellas County Extension. The beautiful garden features native and tropical plants, demonstrating creative landscaping techniques.
The botanical beauty includes themed gardens – the tropical, rose, topiary, jazz, English cottage and celebration/wedding gardens. Guests might be treated to butterflies, herons, otters, eagles, and other wildlife encounters. One-of-a-kind gifts may be purchased in the Botanical Bounty gift shop. Call 582-2100.
• The Gulf Coast Museum of Art features contemporary art created by Florida artists from 1960 to the present and fine craft objects from the Southeastern U.S. Visitors can tour the outdoor sculpture gardens. Docent-led tours and lectures by exhibiting artists are offered, as well as exhibition films and monthly family classics. Studio classes and workshops are available for children and adults. The museum store features artists from the Southeastern U.S.
Museum admission prices are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors (65 and older), $4 for youth ages 7 to 18 and students with ID, free for museum members and children age 6 and under. Call 518-6833.
• Heritage Village, a 21-acre open air historical village, transports visitors through the past 150 years of Pinellas County history. Stroll through the natural pine and palmetto setting and explore 28 historic structures from the 1850s through the early 1900s.
Heritage Village offers interpretive tours with guides in period costume, spinning, weaving, rughooking, quilting, and embroidery demonstrations September through May; storytelling workshops, seminars, and craft classes for adults and children, cultural festivals, events, and historical reenactments, library and archives and a museum store featuring collectibles, handmade crafts and souvenirs.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Call 582-2123.
Pinewood Cultural Park in Largo is accessible by three entrances, two on 125th Street and one on Walsingham Road. Just follow the signs.
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Article published on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007
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