Florida Museum of Natural History

3215 Hull Road,
Gainesville, FL 32611
Family Fun

The Florida Museum houses more than 40 million specimens and artifacts, including one of the worldโ€™s most comprehensive collections of butterflies and moths, and is one the nationโ€™s top five museums. Visitors to the exhibits facility on the UF campus can enjoy hundreds of exotic, live butterflies in the award-winning "Butterfly Rainforest" exhibit, witness a South Florida Calusa Indian welcoming ceremony, experience a life-size limestone cave and enjoy fossil skeletons, including a mammoth and mastodon from the last ice age. Families with children ages 8 and under will love the new hands-on "Discovery Zone" exhibit. For more information, visit www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/visit/plan.

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Hours:

Sun: 1-5 p.m.
Mon: 10 a.m.-5 p.m
Tue: 10 a.m.-5 p.m
Wed: 10 a.m.-5 p.m
Thu: 10 a.m.-5 p.m
Fri: 10 a.m.-5 p.m
Sat: 10 a.m.-5 p.m