Great Explorations Children's Museum
.jpg?width=1600)
.jpg?width=480)
Great Explorations Children's Museum is a museum in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Big Cockroach Mound stands 7 m to the southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Sunken Gardens, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. COURTNEY CAMPBELL passes 12 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Great Explorations Children's Museum (formerly Great Explorations - The Hands-On Museum) is a children's museum, program center, and pre-school in St Petersburg, Florida. It was founded in 1986 by The Junior League of St. Petersburg and Hands-On, Inc. Great Explorations - The Hands-On Museum was formerly housed in a warehouse type location in Downtown St. Petersburg with similar building architecture to the Salvador Dalí Museum and P. Buckley Moss Museum. Its parking lot featured a to-scale replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex made entirely out of recycled scrap metal. Inside, the exhibits were divided into large, themed rooms with individual rooms being devoted to sight, sound, or touch exhibits. The touch room featured one of the more distinctive exhibits, the "Touch Tunnel." This 90-foot-long (27 m), completely blacked out tunnel encouraged children to navigate the fun house-like path using only their sense of touch. The original museum also had a small branch located in a hallway of the St. Petersburg Pier that included smaller versions of some of the museum's popular exhibits. Eventually, the museum was taken over by new management and was moved to its current location adjacent to the re-opened and refurbished Sunken Gardens. At this time, the name was also changed to Great Explorations Children's Museum dropping the "Hands-On" title. Designs for the new museum included more offices and school rooms as the museum intended to expand out their staffing and education capabilities. The museum also petitioned for and was given a grant from AmeriCorps and had Americorps members on staff for several years until the last of them graduated the program in September 2010.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1986.
Wikidata Q5599139, matched on coordinates and name (41 m apart).
What the record says
- Height
- 12 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the COURTNEY CAMPBELL
- 12.2 mi off the TAMIAMI TRAIL HWY (OBS)
- 20.3 mi off the PALMA SOLA HWY
- 21.5 mi off the BRADENTON BEACH HWY
Named places within 25 miles
- Crescent Lake Park: 0.3 mi
- Granada Terrace Park: 0.5 mi
- Coffee Pot Riviera Park: 0.7 mi
- Coffee Pot Park: 0.8 mi
- Historic Round Lake Park: 0.8 mi
- Huggins-Stengel Field: 0.4 mi
- Bayflite Historical Marker: 4.8 mi
- Carillon Bell Tower: 7.1 mi
- Port Tampa Cemetery: 9.1 mi
- U.S. Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross: 9.2 mi
- Historic Banyan Tree: 1.0 mi
- Utopiary Land: 1.7 mi
- Thrill Hill: 2.5 mi
- City of Pinellas Park F-16 Aircraft Monument: 6.2 mi
- Skyzone Trampoline Park: 8.9 mi
- Herbert Scott Davis Mural: 1.2 mi
- Stephen Paladino Mural: 1.2 mi
- Myth: 1.2 mi
- Alex Pardee Mural: 1.2 mi
- Lauren YS Mural: 1.2 mi
- Museum of American Arts and Crafts: 1.0 mi
- Museum of Fine Arts: 1.2 mi
- Saint Petersburg Museum of History: 1.2 mi
- The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art: 1.3 mi
- Morean Arts Center: 1.4 mi
- Placido Bayou Reserves West: 1.7 mi
- No Mow Area: 3.7 mi
- Ross Island: 4.0 mi
- Snake Island: 4.6 mi
- Benjamin Island: 4.7 mi
- Spa Beach: 1.3 mi
- Bahama Beach: 5.3 mi
- South Beach: 6.4 mi
- Picnic Island Beach: 6.5 mi
- Picnic Island Beach: 6.7 mi
- Sunken Gardens: 0.0 mi
- Gizella Kopsick Palm Arboretum: 0.9 mi
- Cultural Grove: 1.3 mi
- The Sage garden: 1.6 mi
- Palmetto Park Community Garden: 2.4 mi
- Palma Ceia Spring: 12.9 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 19.6 mi
- Manatee Mineral Spring: 20.9 mi
- Blue Sink: 21.1 mi
- Ewanowski Spring: 21.1 mi
- Ben T. Davis Beach: 12.9 mi
- Dude Lake Picnic Area: 18.0 mi
- Picnic Bench: 18.6 mi
- Picnic Pavilion at Palma Sola Botanical Park: 19.2 mi
- 59th Street Boat Ramp picnic benches: 19.5 mi
- Weedon Island: 4.4 mi
- Gulf City: 12.3 mi
- Fort Brooke: 15.3 mi
- Willow: 20.5 mi
- Big Cockroach Mound: 10.2 mi
- Portavant Indian Mound: 17.9 mi
- Rocky Bluff: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Great Explorations Children's Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Cockroach Mound | SE 136° | 7 m | 10.2 mi |
| Portavant Indian Mound | S 178° | 1 m | 17.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:11 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:36 | 19:56 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:58 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 17:06 | 17:41 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 62 | 65 | 69 | 74 | 79 | 83 | 84 | 84 | 82 | 77 | 70 | 65 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 7.2 | 8.3 | 9.3 | 7.5 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ST Petersburg, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/162622451
Day trips start here
- Saint Petersburg · 1 mi
- Tampa · 15 mi
- Clearwater · 16 mi
Take the scenic way to Great Explorations Children's Museum.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.