The entire city of St. Augustine is a living museum, with parts of history in every corner and historic sites with stories. As you walk around the city, you will find monuments or plaques that show that each place is historic and has its own place and function in our common history.
1. St. Augustine Art Association
St. Augustine is home to many art galleries and artists, ranging from amateurs and students to internationally acclaimed professionals. With its extensive Permanent Collection of important St. Augustine art, large active membership and ever-expanding exhibitions, programs and partnerships, the STAAA thrives and is recognized as the cultural epicenter of the local art community.
2. Spanish Military Hospital Museum
The Spanish Military Hospital Museum gives visitors a chance to travel back in time to learn about medical practices and procedures in the Colonial Spanish Period of St. Augustine. The Spanish Military Hospital Museum is an authentic reconstruction of a military hospital that stood on this site during the Second Spanish Colonial Period (1784–1821). It brings to life what it was like to be a doctor or a patient in 1791 and how Spanish physicians wove together knowledge from Europe and Africa to achieve an astonishing survival rate.
The Museum is proud to be a pet-friendly attraction!
3. Potter’s Wax Museum
Potter’s Wax Museum is a fun and educational family attraction with over 160 wax figures from the Founding Fathers to recent events and celebrities. It’s a chance to learn about world history face to face with those who lived it.
4. Lightner Museum
The Lightner Museum, soaked in history, is not unique to the past. Today, the Lightner Museum offers a new perspective through exhibitions, events, and educational programs to help Otto Lightner connect with people across the United States who want to enrich their lives through the collection.
5. World Golf Hall of Fame
The World Golf Hall of Fame will serve as the administrator of the game through fascinating and interactive storytelling and exhibits featuring artifacts, artwork, audio, video and photographs that are important to the history of golf and its members. Discover genuine crafts created by members through various exhibits and member locker rooms.
6. Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach
The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach is a place to offer art classes and workshops, hold exhibitions by local and national artists, and promote community enrichment. It serves St. Johns County and Duval County.
7. Colonial Quarter
In the Colonial Quarter, visitors can experience hundreds of years of Spanish and British colonial history in St. Augustine. This two-acre refurbished attraction brings vacationers and locals back in the same era throughout the third century of formation and emergence of the country’s oldest city. Travelers can embark on an interactive and immersive historical journey while enjoying a historic adventure tour with the residents of Colonial Quarter St. Augustine.
8. Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum
The museum provides both youth and adults with educational artifacts and information on African Diaspora literary and cultural history. Not only do they feature rare and antiquarian books written by writers of African Descent, but they also provide exceptional used, rare and new books, high-quality African Diaspora, and Gullah Geechee gift items.
9. Father O’Reilly House Museum
The museum is soaked in history that it can show guests exactly what St. Augustine looked like in the days of Father Miguel O’Reilly. The house has a beautiful garden and 6 rooms, all open to the public. This fully preserved museum exhibits all of the beauty and wonders that St. Augustine offered to its first visitors, as well as relics from the city’s long history. These range from the instruments and ancient lessons taught by the sisters to documents recording the history of Catholic traditions.
10. Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center
The museum features displays and exhibits about St. Augustine`s African-American heritage, tracing the history from the beginning, when runaway slaves escaped from Carolina and built Fort Mose, through the Civil War era, the struggle for Civil Rights, and on to the modern day.
Visit an old building and imagine how people of the past lived and worked in this ancient port city. History also includes the architecture of museums in the old town. The museum here is a replica of a Spanish castle. They are historic wooden classrooms, fortresses, 17th-century military hospitals, and living historic sites that help us go back in time. So browse the exhibits to see the treasures and relics hidden in the St. Augustine Museum.
