FLORIDA

Florida Archaeology Month takes place in March. It includes tours of archaeological sites, films, lectures, demonstrations, and special museum exhibits. For more information, contact your local representative, or visit: http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/month/

Collier County Museum
The Old Florida Festival is the Collier County Museum's main event. It is held annually on the first weekend (Saturday & Sunday) of November in Naples. There you can see a sampling that reflects 6,000 years of Florida history from the Pre-Columbian Calusa Indians to Florida's Colonial period. For more information, visit the museum's Web site at: www.colliermuseum.com.

Florida's Museum of Natural History
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s exhibit, The Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land, draws upon the museum’s internationally acclaimed fossil collection and covers the past 65 million years of Earth’s history (since the extinction of the dinosaurs) by using Florida as the stage on which this fascinating story is told. In fact, many of the fossils were found within 100 miles of Gainesville. The museum also has a permanent exhibit called South Florida People and Environments. The exhibit uses high-tech, interactive displays and some of the finest artifacts in the museum’s collection to tell the stories of South Florida’s native peoples from the Precolumbian, Colonial, and even modern periods. For information, call 352-846-2000, or visit its Web site at: www.flmnh.ufl.edu.

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