Museums

The Sarasota Classic Car Museum is recognized as the second oldest continuously operating antique car museum in the Nation!

The Museum of Art, built by John Ringling to house his personal collection of masterpieces, today features paintings and sculptures by the great Old Masters including Rubens, van Dyck, and more

The Anna Maria Island Historical Society Museum was originally an icehouse built in 1920 in the museum are rare, old photographs, maps, records from the early 1900s,

a permanent collection in a state-of-the-art gallery for viewing of all 96 oil paintings, plus a selection of drawings, fine prints, photographs, videos and Surreal Objects by Salvador Dali.

At Mote, you can explore the secrets of the sea through touch pools, viewable-working labs and high-tech interactive exhibits that showcase the world-renowned research of Mote Marine Laboratory. See s

Hands-on world-class science and technology center.

permanent home to Manatee County's most famous resident and the oldest known manatee in the world, Snooty