The Tallahassee Museum’s Summer Guest Animals are a pair of beautifully colorful patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) native to the plains and savannas of sub-Saharan Africa. The sleek, long-legged pair visiting the Tallahassee Museum for the summer is on loan from Wild Adventures Theme Park in Valdosta, Ga. They will be the Tallahassee Museum’s guests through the end of September, while a new exhibit is prepared for them in Georgia. Visit with these playful primates from a comfortable, shaded viewing area. The Museum’s Guest Animals program brings exotic animals to the Tallahassee area, to enhance understanding of the animal kingdom and to provide learning opportunities to compare and contrast exotic animals with the indigenous animals such as those residing at the museum. The museum’s indigenous animals include endangered Florida panthers and red wolves, as well as otters, black bears and birds of prey. Read Less

The Tallahassee Museum’s Summer Guest Animals are a pair of beautifully colorful patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) native to the plains and savanna...Read More

The Tallahassee Museum will pay tribute to early practices of medicine in Florida -- including country doctors, traditional native practices, battlefield medicine and struggles against epidemics -- in a meticulously researched exhibit titled A Picture of Health in Florida, 1830-1930. Opening June 15 in the Phipps Gallery, the exhibit will present a rich array of objects, historical medical artifacts, photographs, quotations, and text panels – along with re-enactments, workshops and Discovery Tables -- to give visitors a virtual tour of yesteryear Florida’s health-care landscape, from the state’s territorial days through the public health practices of the early 20th century. Exhibit topics will include Florida’s two-edged reputation for healing airs and tropical fevers; epidemics such as yellow fever in the 19th century and flu in the early 20th century and the innovations they inspired; native and folk remedies, medicinal use of native plants, patent medicines, and traveling medicine shows; early midwifery and childbirth; black physicians and segregation; and the evolution of thought about disease, germ theory, hygiene and public health. In conjunction, the Museum’s Education Department will host a health fair, a Traveling Medicine Show reminiscent of days gone by, day trips to historical destinations such as the John Gorrie Museum in Apalachicola, a variety of workshops including school curriculum, re-enactments of Civil War battlefield medicine and surgical practices; and live history interpreters depicting characters such as a roots doctor. Read Less

The Tallahassee Museum will pay tribute to early practices of medicine in Florida -- including country doctors, traditional native practices, battlefi...Read More

A Gift Certificate from Governors Inn makes the perfect gift for family, friends or business associates. Makes a great item for charity auctions too! Offered for one or two nights and may include champagne and a dinner certificate. Call for date availability, details, and pricing. Convenient downtown location close to restaurants, galleries, sports events and more. Read Less

A Gift Certificate from Governors Inn makes the perfect gift for family, friends or business associates. Makes a great item for charity auctions too! ...Read More

Join us for this free craft session the first Saturday of each month. Read Less

Join us for this free craft session the first Saturday of each month....Read More