Photo by Joy Katzen-Guthrie
Palm Harbor Museum
Where local history comes alive!
2043 Curlew Rd | Palm Harbor, FL 34683 | (727) 724-3054 | palmharbormuseum@outlook.com
Open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays | 10 AM to 2 PM | Free Admission (We welcome donations!)
Plenty of free parking on our museum grounds | Corner of Belcher & Curlew Rds | Enter parking lot from Curlew
Open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays | 10 AM to 2 PM | Free Admission (We welcome donations!)
Plenty of free parking on our museum grounds | Corner of Belcher & Curlew Rds | Enter parking lot from Curlew
PALM HARBOR MUSEUM PRESENTS on June 7th at 6:30 PM — featuring Dr. Gregg Poulakis with
THE ENDANGERED SMALL TOOTH SAWFISH IN FLORIDA
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Our June 2023 program features biologist Dr. Gregg Poulakis, who leads Florida's sawfish research team based at Port Charlotte's Florida's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute and Conservation Commission. Dr. Poulakis will provide a show-and-tell and display photographs from his research as he discusses "The Endangered Small tooth Sawfish in Florida: where have they been, where are they now, and where will they be as they recover?” This program coincides with our newest exhibit, The Small Tooth Sawfish, featuring displays of sawfish rostra (saws) and bones in addition to interactive and educational activities and displays for all ages from Dr. Poulakis' and the FWC collection.
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OUR SECOND FAMILY INTERGENERATIONAL DISCOVERY DAY
Saturday, June 10, 2023 | All ages are welcome to join us for activities, tours, crafts, and refreshments!
Join us for the 2nd of a series of Family Intergenerational Discovery Days, brought to you by Pinellas Community Foundation and Faith Mission Grant on Saturday, June 10 from 11 AM to 2 PM.
This free community event includes:
- Fun activities and tours of our collection
- Arts and crafts, games, and activities celebrating the one-year anniversary of our Florida native landscape gardens and interpretive signage
- Plant native Florida flowering seeds in your own pot to take home with you (through the generosity of Vision Ace Hardware Oldsmar)
- Free ice cream (through the generosity of Culver's frozen custard) and other refreshments
And the Ribbon Was Cut!
Photos ©Pinellas County Government
View Pinellas County Government's video feature of our native Living Landscape (funded by a Pinellas County Municipal Services Taxing Units (MSTU) Special Projects Grant) Ribbon Cutting on December 9, 2022—when our new landscape was officially opened to the community.
Pictured are Palm Harbor Historical Society and Museum President Bob Fortner and museum volunteer and Spearhead of our Living Landscape project, Terry Fortner, join Pinellas County Commissioners Charlie Justice (center left) and Dave Eggers (center right).
Pictured are Palm Harbor Historical Society and Museum President Bob Fortner and museum volunteer and Spearhead of our Living Landscape project, Terry Fortner, join Pinellas County Commissioners Charlie Justice (center left) and Dave Eggers (center right).
OUR GROWING NATIVE LANDSCAPE MUSEUM
Since spring 2022, our Palm Harbor Museum grounds have experienced improvements funded by Pinellas County's MSTU Grant to reintroduce Florida native plant species to complement and enhance existing historic specimen plants on our grands, adding Florida nature to our history. Earlier in the year, we trimmed trees, removed non-native palms and shrubs, cleared our property and bordering fences of invasive vines and vegetation, trimmed trees and removed weak tree limbs, and took delivery of new plants. In the last several months, we have added informational signage to appeal to all ages, backgrounds, and cultures to convey stories about our local history and explain how early humans and and subsequent settlers to North Pinellas grew and used these plants for food, resources, inspiration and beauty. Visit our pocket park at the corner of Belcher and Curlew Roads and view our new gardens. We want your senses to come alive with community pride — and we hope to inspire you to bring native plants to your own landscape.
With dedicated volunteers from Keep Pinellas Beautiful, Florida Master Gardeners, Pinellas Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, GFWC North Pinellas Women's Club, and museum members, neighbors, and community, our 2022 Landscape Workdays transformed our museum and grounds. We've heard from so many visitors who say they love our new landscape and signage. Keeping our beds weeded and mulched and our plants watered and loved takes time and dedication and we appreciate every one of you who does it—and our visitors certainly acknowledge it.
Our first landscape workday of 2023 was February 4th as we worked to maintain and improve our landscape with weeding and mulching the native plant garden areas and cleaning up the vines and plants along the entrance area and west fence line. These workdays are a productive and fun time of working together and seeing our accomplishments in action. We hope you can join our efforts to help the living landscape grow! If you'd like to participate in our landscape workdays, please email us at palmharbormuseum@outlook.com
As our new shrubs and flowering trees evolve, improve, and mature, they are producing a native Bird Thicket, Florida Butterfly Garden, Heritage Rose Garden, Muhly Meadow, Wildflower Garden, and Pollinator Overlook to enhance our museum. Garden areas benefit from continued attention. Won't you assist in any way you would enjoy? Email or call 727-724-3054 to let us know how you would like to help. You are welcome to adopt and care for a specific area with native plants. Please feel free to water, weed, or simply love on your native plants.
Palm Harbor Museum is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 10 AM-2 PM at no charge. (Donations are welcomed)
With dedicated volunteers from Keep Pinellas Beautiful, Florida Master Gardeners, Pinellas Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, GFWC North Pinellas Women's Club, and museum members, neighbors, and community, our 2022 Landscape Workdays transformed our museum and grounds. We've heard from so many visitors who say they love our new landscape and signage. Keeping our beds weeded and mulched and our plants watered and loved takes time and dedication and we appreciate every one of you who does it—and our visitors certainly acknowledge it.
Our first landscape workday of 2023 was February 4th as we worked to maintain and improve our landscape with weeding and mulching the native plant garden areas and cleaning up the vines and plants along the entrance area and west fence line. These workdays are a productive and fun time of working together and seeing our accomplishments in action. We hope you can join our efforts to help the living landscape grow! If you'd like to participate in our landscape workdays, please email us at palmharbormuseum@outlook.com
As our new shrubs and flowering trees evolve, improve, and mature, they are producing a native Bird Thicket, Florida Butterfly Garden, Heritage Rose Garden, Muhly Meadow, Wildflower Garden, and Pollinator Overlook to enhance our museum. Garden areas benefit from continued attention. Won't you assist in any way you would enjoy? Email or call 727-724-3054 to let us know how you would like to help. You are welcome to adopt and care for a specific area with native plants. Please feel free to water, weed, or simply love on your native plants.
Palm Harbor Museum is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 10 AM-2 PM at no charge. (Donations are welcomed)
