John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
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John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is a museum in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Big Cockroach Mound stands 7 m to the north, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Ulla R. & Arthur F. Searing Wing, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. TAMIAMI TRAIL HWY (OBS) runs past it. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Ringling Museum also called the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the official art museum of the state of Florida, located in Sarasota, Florida, United States. It was established in 1927 as the legacy of Mable Burton Ringling and John Ringling for the people of Florida. Florida State University assumed governance of the museum in 2000. The institution offers 21 galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art. The museum's art collection consists of more than 10,000 objects, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods. Notable holdings include 16th–20th-century European paintings, especially a significant collection of works by Peter Paul Rubens. Other artists represented include Benjamin West, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Kostabi, Baruj Salinas, Diego Velázquez, Paolo Veronese, Rosa Bonheur, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Giuliano Finelli, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Nicolas Poussin, Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Gainsborough, Eugène Boudin, and Benedetto Pagni. In all, more than 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) have been added to the campus, which includes the art museum, the Circus Museum, Ca' d'Zan, and the historic Asolo Theater. New additions to the campus include the McKay Visitor's Pavilion, the Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion exhibiting studio glass art, the Johnson-Blalock Education Building housing The Ringling Art Library and Cuneo Conservation Lab, the Tibbals Learning Center complete with a miniature circus, the Searing Wing, a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) gallery for special exhibitions attached to the art museum, the Chao Center for Asian Art, and the Monda Gallery for Contemporary Art.
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Dates from 1927.
Wikidata Q612530, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the TAMIAMI TRAIL HWY (OBS)
- 9.0 mi off the BRADENTON BEACH HWY
- 9.2 mi off the PALMA SOLA HWY
- 24.7 mi off the LEMON BAY/MYAKKA TRL
Overlooks nearby
- Observation Mound · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- New College Food Forest: 0.1 mi
- Native Restoration Area: 0.3 mi
- Water Tower Park: 0.8 mi
- MLK: 1.8 mi
- SRQ Park: 2.1 mi
- Owen N. Burns: 3.7 mi
- Selby Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Founder's 50 Monument: 7.8 mi
- Emergency Services Memorial: 8.1 mi
- Braden Castle Ruins: 8.4 mi
- Ulla R. & Arthur F. Searing Wing: 0.0 mi
- Ringling Museum Complex: 0.1 mi
- Circus Museum - Tibbals Learning Center: 0.2 mi
- Circus Museum & Store: 0.2 mi
- Ca' da Zan (Ringling House): 0.3 mi
- Linder Turf and Tractor: 4.4 mi
- Public Beach Access Point: 4.5 mi
- Passage Key Dolphin Tours: 9.2 mi
- Manatee County Fair: 10.1 mi
- Lincoln Park: 10.1 mi
- Indian Beach: 1.2 mi
- Public Beach Access 2: 7.3 mi
- Public Beach Access 3: 7.4 mi
- Sarasota Beach: 7.7 mi
- Siesta Beach: 8.0 mi
- Koski Bell Tower: 0.3 mi
- The Four Winds: 0.3 mi
- The One That Got Away: 0.4 mi
- Shifting Landscape: 3.2 mi
- Enigma: 3.3 mi
- Quick Point Nature Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Red Bug Slough Preserve: 7.6 mi
- Red Bug Slough Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Neal Preserve: 10.9 mi
- Historic Spanish Point: 12.8 mi
- Drawf Garden: 0.1 mi
- Mabel Ringling's Rose Garden: 0.1 mi
- Secret Garden: 0.3 mi
- Sarasota Garden Club: 2.9 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 3.9 mi
- 59th Street Boat Ramp picnic benches: 9.5 mi
- Picnic Bench: 10.9 mi
- Picnic Pavilion at Palma Sola Botanical Park: 11.0 mi
- Dude Lake Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
- Portavant Indian Mound: 11.1 mi
- Caloosa Indian Mound: 19.2 mi
- Big Cockroach Mound: 21.1 mi
- Manatee Mineral Spring: 8.1 mi
- Rocky Bluff: 10.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Cockroach Mound | N 6° | 7 m | 21.1 mi |
| Caloosa Indian Mound | ESE 108° | 6 m | 19.2 mi |
| Portavant Indian Mound | NNW 339° | 1 m | 11.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:11 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:37 | 19:55 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:57 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 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 | 68 | 73 | 78 | 82 | 83 | 83 | 82 | 77 | 70 | 65 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 9.1 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sarasota Bradenton AP, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/32451494
Day trips start here
- Saint Petersburg · 28 mi
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