Margaret Acheson Stuart founded the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg in 1896, and the museum is dedicated to inspiring, educating, and acknowledging excellence in art from antiquity to the present. The Museum of Fine Arts achieves this goal through an excellent permanent collection, a variety of rotating and traveling exhibitions, and educational programs and workshops for the community. Located on Beach Drive, the museum is home to over 14,000 objects, including exquisite French Impressionist paintings, Steuben glass, decorative arts, and pre-Columbian objects.

The museum also features two interior gardens, one of which is devoted to sculpture with the aim of encouraging reflection and thought, while an intimate second-floor gallery displays works on paper and photographs; there are more than 10,000 images.

255 Beach Drive, NE, St. Petersburg, Florida, Phone: 727-896-2667

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