Explore St. Petersburg

The Florida Holocaust Museum in downtown St. Petersburg was founded in 1992 by Walter and Edie Loebenberg. Its permanent exhibition documents the persecution and murder of Europe's Jews, using survivors' testimony and objects, among them a boxcar used for deportations; other galleries cover later genocides and human rights.

The Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement opened in 2023 in a five-storey building in downtown St. Petersburg, built to house the collection of Rudy Ciccarello. Its galleries show furniture, pottery, metalwork, lighting, textiles and prints from about 1890 to 1930, by makers such as Gustav Stickley and Tiffany Studios.

The Museum of Fine Arts on Beach Drive, opened in 1965, has an encyclopaedic collection from antiquity to the present: Greek and Roman antiquities, Asian and pre-Columbian art, European paintings by Monet, Renoir and Morisot, American art and photography. Its Hazel Hough Wing opened in 2008.

The St. Petersburg Museum of History, at the entrance to the Pier District, has told the city's story since 1922. Exhibits cover the Tocobaga people, early settlement and the 1914 St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line, the first scheduled airline, shown with a full-size replica of its Benoist flying boat.

The Dalí Museum on the St. Petersburg waterfront holds the largest collection of Salvador Dalí's work outside Europe, gathered by A. Reynolds and Eleanor Morse, with about 300 oil paintings, drawings and sculptures. The building of 2011 by HOK has concrete walls broken by a free-form glass bubble called the Enigma and a spiral staircase.

The Imagine Museum on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg opened in 2018 and is devoted to contemporary studio glass. Its 21 galleries show works by American and international glass artists from the 1960s studio glass movement to the present, from blown vessels to large sculptures and installations.