View authentic shipwreck artifacts as well as learn about the lives of real-life pirates. Experience what it was like to live as a pirate on the high seas. It was not always adventure, but it was always dangerous!

Find out about the earliest European visitors to Florida and the Caribbean. See Spanish armor and weapons, learn what foods were brought to the New World and what foods were discovered here.

See artifacts from 500 years of Florida’s history. Learn about the earliest “tourists” to the state, and how Florida grew, from pioneer settlements to the space program.

Learn how Henry Flagler and his Florida railway system helped put Florida on the map. See early construction equipment actually used to build his railroad and how the natural environment battled crews every step of the way. See artifacts from the Hurricane of 1935 that destroyed his dream of a railroad built “across the sea.”