Fun Things To Do In Tampa

Tampa Bay has a lot more to offer than just fun in the sun. It’s one of the more exciting places to see when tourists come to Florida. If you are considering settling down in the Tampa Bay area, rest assure that Tampa and the surrounding West Florida will leave you fulfilled. Tampa Bay has the history, the culture, the art, and the weather to be regarded as one of the best cities to live in the United States. 





Downtown Tampa Bay is where all the good things happen, as it is one of Florida's most vibrant places. If you are looking for condos near downtown Tampa Bay, you must first get familiar with some of the attractions right? Take a look at these things to do in Tampa Bay and you will become more eager to move to the Gulf Coast! 

Museums 

Tampa Bay is home to some world class museums in the likes of: 

The Tampa Museum of Art – One of the more popular and prestigious museum in Florida, it represents Tampa art for the world. Located downtown, The Tampa Museum for Art is one of the most popular places to visit in the region. 

Tampa Bay History Center – Also located in downtown Tampa Bay, this is an educational institution with exhibits and research on the heritage and history of the region. Travel back 12,000 and see the changes in Tampa to present day along with highlights on the history of Florida. 

There are many other museums to visit in Tampa Bay, with the likes of Ybor City State Museum and Henry B. Plant Museum forming the highlight of what this city offers to explorers. 

Recreation and Living 

Florida is known around the United States as a very upbeat and happening coastal state due to its wonderful weather. The Florida Aquarium is the highest visited attraction in Tampa Bay. The aquarium takes you on a Carnival and Royal Caribbean cruise and is a highly recommended place to visit in Tampa. Another major attraction is the Lowry Park Zoo, which is an award winning mid-sized zoo in the United States. This is a must visit zoo with exhibits within walk-able distances from one another. 

“Tampa Bay off your balcony. Snell Isle Marina at your doorstep. Downtown St. Petersburg at your pleasure.”

The beautiful clear waters of Tampa Bay offers up a relaxing experience that can't be matched. Residents of Water Club Snell Isle can enjoy this charming and relaxing Florida lifestyle. 

Located roughly 25 miles from downtown Tampa, Water Club Snell Isle is a luxury condominium complex currently under construction on Snell Isle, one of the first ever waterfront neighborhoods to grace St Petersburg. 

The twin towers and eleven, 2-story townhomes will sit on prestigious Snell Isle Boulevard, adjacent to the St. Petersburg Yacht Club’s Snell Isle Marina. The spacious units will feature open floor plans, gourmet kitchens, floor-to-ceiling windows and beautiful terraces to take in the views of Tampa Bay.

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Downtown St. Petersburg’s scenic park and marina-lined waterfront has made it one of the most desirable coastal communities in the country. An eclectic menu of upscale arts, culture, shopping, outdoor dining, and year round nightlife, festivals and events keep things hopping. World-class museums like the Salvador Dali, Museum of Fine Arts, and Morean Arts Center Dale Chihuly Collection make it a cultural destination of international renown.

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Performing Arts

The perks of living in St. Petersburg, is the cultural arts environment that is housed downtown and the surrounding areas. Water Club Snell Isle residents are just minutes from several performing arts theatre. 

St. Petersburg Performings Arts Theatres

163 3rd St. N. www.americanstage.org or 727-823-7529. Enjoy an intimate performance in a brand new state of the art building in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg. School tours, performance classes, summer camps and costume rentals are offered.

freeFall Theatre, 6099 Central Ave. www.freefalltheatre.com  or 727-498-5205. Presenting a varied range of classical and new works that are bold, daring, and diverse. The works will presented in ways that invite, entertain, and challenge the audience.

  

The Palladium at St. Petersburg College, 253 5th Ave. N. www.mypalladium.org  or 727-822-3590. A community center for the performing arts and cultural organizations. 

Built in 1925 the Hough Concert Hall has 880 seats.

The Mahaffey, Duke Energy Center for the Arts. 400 1st St. S. www.themahaffey.com  or 727-892-5767.  Bringing entertainment and culture to the community, St. Petersburg's cultural jewel on the bay. An intimate 2,030-seat performing arts center located in the heart of downtown,  The newly renovated facility hosts top-quality national and international artists and performances - Broadway, classical, pop, rock, comedy, dance, affordable family theater - and hosts The Florida Orchestra.  Breathtaking ballroom spaces and dramatic lobby areas overlooking the Tampa Bay waterfront are available for private events.

St. Petersburg Opera. Venues around the county and The Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College. 727-823-2040 or www.stpeteopera.org Presenting fully staged professional opera productions of the highest quality, and making opera accessible to present and future audiences through community outreach, educational initiatives, and collaboration with other arts organizations.

St. Petersburg City Theatre, 4025 31st St. S. www.splt.org  or 727-866-1973. Florida's oldest continuously operating community theater. The intimate Lobby Gallery is home to select collections of local artists.

The Studio @ 620, 620 1st Ave. N. www.studio620.org or 727-895-6620. A creative venue that focuses on multi-cultural events that explore history, visual arts, crafts, music, poetry, theater, film, dance and dialogue.

The Royal Theatre, 1011 22nd St. S. 727-327-6556. www.royaltheatermidtown.com 

Historic Midtown St. Petersburg's premier performing and cultural arts center. Boys and Girls Club.

2nd Saturday Artwalk in St. Petersburg, FL.

Water Club Snell Isle in St. Petersburg is known for its amazing world class museums but local art galleries open up to the sunshine of 2nd Saturday Artwalk.

In addition to St. Petersburg's world class museums, the visual arts are vibrant in the Sunshine City. More than two dozen galleries open their doors on the second Saturday evening each month for a downtown gallery hop.

Among stops on the hop -- the Warehouse Arts District, Florida Craftsmen Guild's statewide gallery and the Morean Art Center Galleries and Hot Shop, which allows the audience to actively participate in the glass-blowing process, from first gather to the finished creation, through demonstrations or a hands-on contribution.

Get out of your house & check out some art! 

Every Second Saturday of the month studios & galleries all over St. Petersburg, Florida, swing open their doors, inviting anyone & everyone to check out their latest work for free! 

Yes, FREE!!

See which art galleries are participating at www.artwalkstpete.com/

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Florida Museum of Photographic Arts

Water Club Snell Isle is located near Tampa's Downtown, home to the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. FMOPA enriches the community by the education of children and adults alike. 

Mission

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is a museum dedicated to exhibiting important photographic art as central to contemporary life and culture.  FMoPA collects, preserves and exhibits historic and contemporary works by nationally and internationally known photographic artists.  FMoPA also enriches the community by operating outreach programs to educate children and adults.

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opening reception

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PERMANENT COLLECTION

The FMoPA Permanent Collection

Since its beginning in 2001, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts has steadily built its permanent collection. Beginning with a group of vintage photographs by Richard Tepe (arranged by Vincent Sorrentino, co-founder) as well as excellent examples of photojournalism by Tampa Bay Times photographers Jamie Francis and James Borchuck, the museum soon gained a ten-work suite of landmark images by the pioneer of strobe light photography and M.I.T. professor, Dr. Harold “Doc” Edgerton. Thanks to co-founder Charles Levin and Gus Kayafus of Palm Press, Edgerton’s famous Milk Drop Coronet and Shooting the Apple are in the collection.

FMoPA has a growing concentration of examples of early panoramic photography, including five views of early Tampa by the Burgert Brothers (gifts of Terry Butchko Hoft).  An array of early panoramic views of the building of the Panama Canal, West Point, Miami and other vistas, are among numerous gifts from Robert B. MacKay of Cold Spring Harbor, New York, author of America by the Yard: Cirkut Camera: Images from the Early Twentieth Century.

The museum is grateful to longtime supporters Celia and Jim Ferman for their gift of three classic scenes of Woodstock by Burk Uzzle.  Museum trustee William K. Zewadski was instrumental in the acquisition of important works by celebrity photographer Len Prince, by Chinese photographer Shen Wei and by Dianora Niccolini, who is a pioneer in the photographing of the male nude.

David R. Hall, III, a member of FMOPA’s Board of Directors and friend of many artists, facilitated the donation of works by such noted names as Judy Dater (known for her 1974 photograph of Imogen Cunningham and Twinka), Andrea Modica (who has exhibited her work in museums internationally), Robert Hartman (who takes infrared aerial photographs of the California countryside) and Ruth Bernhard, who was once saluted by Ansel Adams as being “the greatest photographer of the nude.”

 Elizabeth Bolint donated a key work by noted Depression-Era artist Dorothea Lange, Kern County, and the museum also holds a portrait of Lange by Rondal Partridge (son of Imogen Cunningham).  The very top ranks of Florida photography (and/or Florida-born photographers) are represented by four large, excellent works from Clyde Butcher (two of which were dontated by Charles Levin and Cynthia Flowers, co-founders) and a haunting landscape donated by the artist Benjamin Dimmitt. Herb Snitzer, who is famous for his portraits of jazz musicians and who lives in St. Petersburg, as arranged by Cynthia Flowers, donated the portrait of Bette Davis to the museum’s permanent collection.

Also in the collection are three engaging views of Pittsburgh’s African-American community in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles “Teenie” Harris (also known as “One Shot” Harris).  One image was a gift of the Harris family arranged by Cynthia Flowers and the other two were donated by Charles Levin and Cynthia Flowers.

The museum holds two dreamlike photo montages by San Francisco-based Hugh Shurley. In addition, courtesy of New York’s Marlborough Gallery and the artist, the museum has two dramatic portraits of members of the Surma and Mursi tribes of Ethiopia by German-born Hans Silvester.

The most recent acquisitions include a gift of more than 40 works from Bud Lee and his family. Lee, at one time a key member of Tampa’s arts community and currently a resident of Plant City, Florida, has had a colorful and noted career photographing for Esquire and Rolling Stone, among other publications.

Joanne Milani, Board of Trustees and former Executive Director and Curator

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