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Join docent Amy Tyrrell for a 20-minute guided walkthrough of Cigar City and discover how Tampa became one of the world’s leading cigar manufacturing centers. Amy connects Henry B. Plant’s transportation network with Vicente Martinez Ybor’s cigar factories, revealing how industry and immigration transformed a small Florida community into the city of Tampa. Explore maps, …
Elevate your happy hour with a curated history experience at the Tampa Bay History Center. Enjoy a complimentary drink with your ticket and attend our gallery talk held by historian Rodney Kite-Powell, Director of the Touchton Map Library. He gives a talk on the latest exhibit in our galleries, "Mapping the 14th Colony: British Florida and the American Revolution."
Join docent Jim Dinsmore for a 20-minute guided tour of the Touchton Map Library and learn how maps document the people, movement and conflicts that shaped Florida. Jim connects individual maps to stories of Indigenous communities, European explorers, settlers, U.S. troops and Seminoles, showing how geography influenced encounters, transportation routes and the growth of communities …
Strum, listen and learn during Family Day: Guitar Lab, a hands-on program inspired by America at the Crossroads: The GUITAR and a Changing Nation. Families can explore the history of the guitar through interactive learning stations, staff-led activities and up-close opportunities to see special guitars while the exhibition is still on view. Designed for children …
Join docent Amy Tyrrell for a 20-minute guided walkthrough of Cigar City and discover how Tampa became one of the world’s leading cigar manufacturing centers. Amy connects Henry B. Plant’s transportation network with Vicente Martinez Ybor’s cigar factories, revealing how industry and immigration transformed a small Florida community into the city of Tampa. Explore maps, …
Join docent Jim Dinsmore for a 20-minute guided tour of the Touchton Map Library and learn how maps document the people, movement and conflicts that shaped Florida. Jim connects individual maps to stories of Indigenous communities, European explorers, settlers, U.S. troops and Seminoles, showing how geography influenced encounters, transportation routes and the growth of communities …
The history center is open daily from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
**Galleries are closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas and open until 3 p.m. on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
The History Center provides a dramatic and historic backdrop for your wedding, wedding reception or rehearsal dinner. Give your wedding a unique Tampa flair your guests will remember for a lifetime.
Are you looking for a one-of-a-kind Tampa experience for your next corporate event or convention party? Are you a meeting planner looking for a unique setting to host a board retreat or employee function? Located within walking distance of downtown hotels, the History Center is perfect for your next corporate event.
