The exhibit ends with the arrival of the first humans in Florida near the end of the Pleistocene. Visitors travel through the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs and see Florida's first land animals, evolving grasslands and savannahs and the land bridge between North and South America that formed about 3 million years ago. The exhibition takes visitors on a walk through time beginning in the Eocene epoch, when Florida was underwater. Located in Powell Hall, the $2.5 million, 5,000-square-foot (460 m 2) exhibit describes the history of the Florida Platform through five geologic time periods. The collection brings together those from the Allyn Museum in Sarasota, other University of Florida collections, and the State of Florida's Division of Plant Industry collections.Ī collection of fossils in the Florida Fossil Hall. It started with around four million specimens, with space for significant further expansion. The center houses a collection of more than 10 million butterfly and moth specimens, making it one of the largest collections of Lepidoptera in the world, rivaling that of the Natural History Museum in London. This new $12 million facility for Lepidoptera research and public exhibits opened in August 2004. The McGuires later gave another $3 million to fund final construction of the center. This gift was one of the largest private gifts ever given to foster research on insects, and was matched from the State of Florida Alec Courtelis Facilities Enhancement Challenge Grant Program. McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. McGuire, then CEO of UnitedHealth Group, gave a $4.2 million gift to establish the William W.

The outside of the McGuire Center for Biodiversity and Lepodoptra Powell Hall was partially funded from a gift of $3 million from two University of Florida alumni couples Bob and Ann and Steve and Carol Powell of Fort Lauderdale, and with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Florida state government. It serves, along with the connected McGuire Center, as the main exhibits and public programs facility. Located in the University of Florida Cultural Plaza, Powell Hall was constructed in 1995. It also houses a state-of-the-art Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics lab. It currently houses over 25 million objects and artifacts in its collections, which include ichthyology, paleontology (both vertebrate and invertebrate), botany, paleobotany and palynology, herpetology, malacology, mammalogy, ornithology, environmental archaeology, historical archaeology, archeology of the Caribbean and Florida, and the ethnography of Latin and North Americas. History Enabling legislation ĭickinson Hall, opened in 1971, is located on Museum Road. Formerly known as the Florida State Museum, the name was changed in 1988 to more accurately reflect the museum's mission and help avoid confusion with Florida State University, which is located in Tallahassee.

The museum was chartered as the state's official natural history museum by the Florida Legislature in 1917. The museum's collections were first used for teaching at Florida Agriculture College in Lake City in the 1800s, and were relocated to the campus of the University of Florida in 1906. The museum does not charge for admission to most exhibits the exceptions are the Butterfly Rainforest and certain traveling exhibits. Powell Hall's permanent public exhibits focus on the flora, fauna, fossils, and historic peoples of the state of Florida. 100 Places as the Florida Museum of Natural History / Formerly Florida Museum of Natural Sciences. On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects's Florida chapter placed Dickinson Hall on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. The main research facility and former public exhibits building, Dickinson Hall, is located on the east side of campus at the corner of Museum Road and Newell Drive. The main public exhibit facility, Powell Hall and the attached McGuire Center, is located in the Cultural Plaza, which it shares with the Samuel P.

Its main facilities are located at 3215 Hull Road on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville. The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida's official state-sponsored and chartered natural-history museum.

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