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Listen: The Blues ProgramStaff member painting a mural at the Florida State Museum in Gainesville, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 2, FF48
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Service industries--Florida--Alachua County--Gainesville
Tourism--Florida--Alachua County--Gainesville
Public institutions--Florida--Alachua County--Gainesville
Museums--Florida--Alachua County--Gainesville
Material culture--Florida--Alachua County--Gainesville
Arts
Art, Central American
Art, Mexican
Maya art
Mural painting and decoration--Florida--Alachua County--Gainesville
Painting
Artists
Painters
Museums--Employees
Graphic arts
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
The Florida State Museum began in 1891 at the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City as a teaching tool. In 1906, it moved to the newly built University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1917, the State Legislature designated the facility as the Florida State Museum, a name it kept until 1988 when it was renamed the Florida Museum of Natural History. In 1937, the state museum moved to the Seagle Building, then in 1970 it moved to the newly built Dickinson Hall. Finally, in 1997, it moved to a new museum building called Powell Hall.
Part of a Mayan exhibit. The mural is a replica of a Mayan mural found in Mexico.
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