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History In and Out of the Classroom

Bring your lessons to life with the St. Petersburg Museum of History! The Museum provides St. Petersburg and Florida history educational opportunities for elementary, middle, and high school students for your classroom, and through tours of the Museum. 

Field Trips

The Museum’s tours offer an exceptional up close and personal Florida history learning experience. All tours give time for independent exploration, address Florida state curriculum standards, and include lesson plan materials for the classroom.

Contact Nevin Sitler, Curator and Historian

(727) 894-1052 x206 | nevin@historystpete.org

Request a School Tour
A guide addresses a group of students and chaperones in the lobby of the St. Petersburg Museum of History

In Class Lessons

Bring the Museum into the classroom! This program includes Florida history lesson plans to help teachers capture and share the history of Florida.

Subjects include:

  • Spanish Colonial Florida
  • Native American Florida
  • Florida’s Role in the Civil War
  • Florida’s Role in the Spanish American War
  • The Roaring 20s & Jazz Age Florida
  • Florida’s Role in World War II
  • Florida and the Cold War
  • Civil Rights in Florida

Contact Rui Farias

(727) 894-1052 x207 | rui@historystpete.org

Historic 16th-century map of Florida and the southeastern coast of North America, with Latin text, compass rose, and decorative cartouches