Past Exhibits
Over the years, Sulphur Springs Museum has showcased many exhibits. Take a look at some of our favorites!
Voices and Votes: Democracy in America
March 23 - May 19, 2024
Our third Smithsonian exhibition, funded through a Museums on Mainstreet grant by Florida Humanities, featured historical and contemporary photos; educational and archival video; engaging multimedia interactives; and historical objects like campaign souvenirs, voter memorabilia, and protest material. It also featured artwork created by two Sulphur Springs youth arts groups and an exciting series of related talks.
Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes
April 5 - May 27, 2023
This exhibit, in partnership with NCAR and UCAR, showcased the importance of the environment and how people are being affected by climate change.
Velocity Exhibit
June 7 - August 26, 2023
Charley Belcher, from Charley's World on Fox 13, visited the Museum in the summer of 2023. Learn what he discovered with the Velocity exhibit and the wonderful history of Sulphur Springs.
The Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association campers came and participated in the Velocity exhibit and walked through the Museum. It was delightful how many of them showed interest in the Sulphur Springs history from the permanent collection panels on the walls as they read the articles with interest. When it came to the Velocity exhibit itself, they were quite amazed as they raced and watched the balls circle the dish. As well as learning how motion makes the ball stay up on the loop-d-loop, and we could see them light up learning about velocity concepts. — Sulphur Springs Museum associate Kayvin
African Roots of Southern Cooking
January 11, 2023 - March 26, 2023
African Americans developed a cultured identity through “soul” and associated food ways of people of African descent over hundreds of years. In this exhibit, we will explore the vast variety in African-American cooking; from foods prepared by enslaved Africans in British America and the antebellum South; in the urban centers during the Great Migration; during the Depression; in Jim Crow eateries; Black churches; and during times of celebration. The foods presented in this exhibit have made the long journey from Africa to the Americas.
Have Blues, Will Travel: Traveling Blues Musicians in the Jim Crow Era
April 8 - July 2, 2022
This exhibit, funded by Florida Humanities, showcased the hardships and inequality Black Blues musicians faced while traveling to play concerts in the Jim Crow era, using the Negro Motorist Green Book to find safe lodging.
Freedom Riders
February 27 - March 28, 2022
It celebrated a seminal moment in civil rights history. The self-proclaimed “Freedom Riders” challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarmingly simple act — traveling together in small interracial groups, and sitting where they pleased on buses and trains. Demanding unrestricted access to terminal restaurants and waiting rooms, they were met with bitter racism, mob violence, and imprisonment along the way. But their courage and sacrifice over eight months in 1961 changed America forever.
FOX 13 Tampa Bay conducted a news story about the exhibit.
Civil Rights in the Sunshine State
January - September 2020
(including several months when the Museum was closed during the pandemic)
We were proud to welcome this magnificent traveling exhibition, telling the story of the heroic fight for equality, from post-slavery to the present day. It was standing room only for Dr. Vincent Adejumo’s talk on the Rosewood Massacre, with more than 120 people attending!
Norma Robinson was interviewed by WFLA Channel 8 News for a feature on the exhibition.
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America
August 10 - September 21, 2019
Our state-of-the-art, multimedia traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution was a great success. We hosted six well-attended events and were honored to have Tampa Mayor Jane Castor speak at the Opening.
We added local information on the Pool and the Dog Track, now part of our permanent exhibits.
And we were covered on Channel 13’s Charley’s World. Watch Florida Humanities’ video of our Opening.
