Florida Museum of Natural History--Exhibits & Public Programs, Gainesville, Florida

Museum Info

(Updated: 6/7/2010)

Florida Museum of Natural History--Exhibits & Public Programs

Gainesville, Florida

Street Address

University of Florida Cultural Plaza
SW 34th Street & Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 112710
Gainesville, FL 32611-2710

phone: 352-846-2000
fax: 352-846-0253
e-mail: museuminfo@flmnh.ufl.edu
web: www.flmnh.ufl.edu

Hours

Monday - Saturday	10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday	1 PM - 5 PM

Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas

Admissions

Free General Admission; Fee for Butterfly Rainforest and Temporary Exhibits

Staff

Douglas S. Jones, Director

phone: 352-273-1902

e-mail: dsjones@flmnh.ufl.edu

Douglas R. Noble, Head of Exhibits & Public Programs

phone: 352-273-2052

e-mail: dnoble@flmnh.ufl.edu

Joshua Mccoy, Director of Development

phone: 352-273-2086

e-mail: jmccoy@flmnh.ufl.edu

Paul Ramey, Assistant Director, Marketing & PR

phone: 352-273-2054

e-mail: pramey@flmnh.ufl.edu

Darcie MacMahon, Head, Exhibits

phone: 352-273-2053

e-mail: dmacmahon@flmnh.ufl.edu

Jamie Creola, Head, Education

phone: 352-273-2057

e-mail: jcreola@flmnh.ufl.edu

Leslie Ladendorf, Membership Coordinator

phone: 352-273-2047

e-mail: llad@flmnh.ufl.edu

Charlene Smith, Office Manager

phone: 352-273-2050

e-mail: cosmith@flmnh.ufl.edu

Kendra Lanza-Kaduce, Public Programs Coordinator

phone: 352-273-2064

e-mail: klkaduce@flmnh.ufl.edu

Kurt Auffenberg, Operations Coordinator

phone: 352-273-2083

e-mail: kauffe@flmnha.ufl.edu

Tom Kyne, Traveling Exhibits Coordinator

phone: 352-273-2077

e-mail: kyne@flmnh.ufl.edu

Betty Dunckel, Center Director, Informal Science Education

phone: 352-273-2088

e-mail: bdunckel@flmnh.ufl.edu

Thomas Emmel, Center Director, McGuire Center

phone: 352-273-2005

e-mail: tcemmel@flmnh.ufl.edu

Ian Breheny, Exhibit Designer

phone: 352-273-2078

e-mail: imb@flmnh.ufl.edu

Graig D. Shaak, Associate Director Emeritus

phone: 352-273-1900

e-mail: gdshaak@flmnh.ufl.edu

Elecia Crumpton, Graphic Designer

phone: 352-273-2039

e-mail: ecrumpton@flmnh.ufl.edu

Beverly Sensbach, Director of Development

Description

Visitors to the Florida Museum, on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, can enjoy hundreds of exotic butterflies in a rainforest setting, witness a South Florida Calusa Indian welcoming ceremony, experience a life-size limestone cave, and see a mammoth and mastodon from the last Ice Age. Permanent exhibits include Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife, South Florida People and Environments, Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land, and the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, which features the screened, outdoor Butterfly Rainforest exhibit with hundreds of live butterflies.

Dickinson Hall houses the museum's other research activities and vast collections containing more than 28 million natural history specimens.

History

Formerly named the Florida State Museum, established by the legislature in 1917 as the official state museum of natural history.

Research Collections

Anthropology: 8.8 million. It is the world's largest collection of Spanish Colonial artifacts and prehistoric Florida artifacts. Plants: 470,000. This collection leads the state in plant identification. Mollusks: 3 million. This is the eigth-largest U.S. collection. Butterflies and Moths: 1 million. This is the world's third-largest collection. Fish: 2.3 million. This is the fourth-largest U.S. collection. Reptiles and Amphibians: 190,000. This is the eigth-largest U.S. collection. Birds: 73,000. This is the world's third-largest sound recording collection and the fifth-largest skeleton collection. Mammals: 34,000. This is the world's second-largest marine mammal collection. Plant Fossils: 250,000. This collection leads the international research of flowering plant origins. Invertebrate Fossils: 3.75 million. This is the world's largest Florida collection and the fifth-largest North American Cenozoic collection. Vertebrate Fossils: 700,000. This is the fifth-largest U.S. collection. Total specimens: 20.5 million.

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