#1 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Downtown Tampa (Neighborhood)
Tampa FL
~0.01 miles from Tampa city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Tampa Hillsborough Convention and Visitors Association
Tampa FL
~0.08 miles from Tampa city center
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Traveler Description: Get the lowdown on Tampa's sights and sounds here.
Attraction type: Tourist/visitor center
Address: 400 North Tampa Street
Suite 1010 Tampa, FL 33602-4706
Tel: 800-448-2672
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Tampa Museum of Art
Tampa FL
~0.24 miles from Tampa city center
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The Tampa Museum of Art is located in Downtown Tampa, Florida. The museum exhibits 20th-century fine art, as well as Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities. It opened in 1979 on the banks of Hillsborough River.
Since its inception, museum planners knew that the Tampa Museum of Art's original building was too small for its collection. Proposals for expansion or relocation were the subject of discussion and controversy for years. Several different plans were proposed either by the city of Tampa or the museum board, including:
in 2001, architect Rafael Vinoly designed a dramatic $76 million building which would have included a huge metal canopy overhanging nearby city streets. The project proved too costly and perhaps unsafe in a hurricane.
From 2003 to 2005, Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio proposed that the museum be relocated to one of several abandoned or underutilized buildings downtown, including an old federal courthouse and a small office tower. However, the museum board was unenthusiastic about the choices. As it turned out, converting the courthouse into usable museum space proved too expensive and disagreement over the appraised price of the office tower scrapped those plans as well.
Future site of new Tampa Museum of Art in May, 2008. Museum is pictured in center of sign. (The University of Tampa is visible across the river.)
In 2006, the museum board and the city of Tampa agreed to use public and private funds to construct a $33 million, 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) new museum in redesigned Curtis Hixon Park as part of Mayor Iorio's Riverwalk project along the Hillsborough River. The building (by architect Stanley Saitowitz) is designed to look like "a metal box sitting on a glass pedestal" and makes use of aluminum, glass, and fiber optic color-changing lights in the exterior walls to "make the building itself a work of art". New homes for the Tampa History Center and Tampa Children's Museum will also be built nearby.
The former museum building had to be torn down to make way for the current one. In the interim, the Tampa Museum of Art was temporarily moved to the historic Centro Espanol building in West Tampa, which had been vacant for several years. Groundbreaking for the project took place on April 18, 2008, and the grand opening of the new Tampa Museum of Art took place on February 6, 2010.
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Tampa Theater
Tampa FL
~0.25 miles from Tampa city center
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The Tampa Theatre and Office Building is a historic U.S. theater and city landmark in the Uptown District of downtown Tampa, Florida. On January 3, 1978, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Theatre features a wide range of independent, foreign, and documentary films on a daily basis. It is Tampa's only non-profit theater and operating costs are largely covered by its membership program, various corporate sponsors as well as ticket sales. It has periodically been used as a backdrop for movies, MTV videos and local programming.
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Henry B. Plant Museum
Tampa FL
~0.30 miles from Tampa city center
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The Henry B. Plant Museum is located in the south wing of Plant Hall (formerly the Tampa Bay Hotel) on the University of Tampa’s campus, at 401 West Kennedy Boulevard. The museum focuses on the turn of the century Victorian lifestyle of the old Tampa Bay Hotel’s guests. Highlighting the Gilded Age and the beginnings of Florida’s and Tampa’s tourist industry, the museum is open to the public every day except Monday and major holidays. During the Christmas holiday season, the museum hosts the annual Victorian Christmas Stroll.
The entire building (under the title of Tampa Bay Hotel) is a U.S. National Historic Landmark, designated as such on December 5, 1972.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Tampa Convention Center
Tampa FL
~0.40 miles from Tampa city center
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The Tampa Convention Center is located in Downtown Tampa, Florida. Its location is ideal because it has both waterfront views, and views of the skyline. The center encompasses 600,000 square feet in total. The Convention Center offers a variety of banquet halls and meeting rooms perfect for any occasion.
The Tampa Convention Center is a mid-sized convention center located in Downtown Tampa, Florida. Its location is ideal because it has both waterfront views, and views of the skyline. In 2006, a 20-story Embassy Suites hotel opened next door, with a skybridge connecting it to the convention center. Harbour Island is right across the eponymous bridge on the other side of the Garrison Channel. It is connected to neighboring Channelside and Harbour Island via the TECO Streetcar. The center encompasses 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) in total.
It is built on the historical site of Ft. Brooke, the original American settlement on Tampa Bay from which Tampa grew. The Super Bowl XLIII media center was held there.
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
St. Petersburg Times Forum - Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa FL
~0.44 miles from Tampa city center
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Home to the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League (AFL).
The St. Pete Times Forum is an arena in Tampa, Florida, that has been used for ice hockey, basketball, and arena football games, as well as concerts.
It is home to the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League and the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League.
The venue, located in Downtown Tampa's Channelside District was a secondary location chosen after the failure of Tampa Coliseum Inc. to secure funding to construct an arena on Tampa Sports Authority land near Tampa Stadium. It opened in 1996 as the Ice Palace. Its first event was a performance by the Royal Hanneford Circus. The first hockey game was the Lightning hosting the New York Rangers, which the Lightning won by a score of 5–2.
The arena was built as a new home for the Lightning after the club outgrew the older, smaller Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds. Prior to the opening of the Ice Palace, the Lightning moved to the Florida Suncoast Dome, which was nicknamed the "Thunderdome," in St. Petersburg, Florida, joining the Tampa Bay Storm, in 1994. Upon the completion of the Ice Palace, both the Lightning and the Storm, moved in. The Thunderdome, now named Tropicana Field, is currently home to Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays.
Control of the venue has changed hands three times since the building's opening in 1996. The lease agreement ties the arena to the ownership of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Naming rights to the Ice Palace were sold to the St. Petersburg Times, a daily newspaper which circulates throughout the Tampa Bay Area. Other entertainment events occasionally held in the Forum include concerts, NBA exhibition games, USF Basketball and NCAA Tournament games, tennis, professional wrestling, boxing, figure skating, and rodeos (as well as stand-alone bull riding events; the Forum has hosted an event by the PBR's premier tour, the Bud Light Cup (renamed Built Ford Tough Series in 2003), annually since 1998.)
http://www.sptimesforum.com/
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Tampa FL
~0.45 miles from Tampa city center
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The David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors as the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa, Florida in July 1987 and has welcomed more than 10 million guests. The venue was renamed in November 2009 to recognize the generous donation, the largest individual philanthropic gift ever made to a cultural institution in the Tampa Bay area, of financier David A. Straz, Jr.
The Straz Center is located downtown on a nine-acre site along the east bank of the Hillsborough River. As the largest performing arts complex south of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 335,000 square-foot venue provides an environment for a variety of events. It has a leading Broadway series and produces grand opera, as well as presenting a variety of concerts, performances and events. 680,000 patrons attended 4,148 events during the 2007-2008 season.
In 2009, the Straz Center officially began a new program entitled the "Broadway Genesis Project," which intends to present the world premieres of musicals and plays which hopefully will move to Broadway. The first show staged as part of this series is Frank Wildhorn's newest musical, Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure, which opened officially on December 5, following previews beginning November 24.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
University of Tampa
Tampa FL
~0.47 miles from Tampa city center
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The University of Tampa, or UT, is a private, co-educational university in Downtown Tampa, Florida. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 2006, the University celebrated its 75th anniversary. UT offers over 100 undergraduate degree options, along with master's degree programs in business administration, accounting, finance, education, marketing, innovation management, and nursing. UT’s John H. Sykes College of Business is one of 45 schools that The Princeton Review has added to its annual best business schools guide in 2007. Selecting it for its 2007 edition of Best 282 Business Schools (Random House/Princeton Review Books).
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
St. Pete Times Forum
401 Channelside Drive Tampa FL - (813) 301-6500
~0.52 miles from Tampa city center
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http://www.sptimesforum.com
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Cruise Line Terminal
Tampa FL
~0.76 miles from Tampa city center
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651 Channelside Dr., Tampa, FL
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Florida Aquarium
Tampa FL
~0.83 miles from Tampa city center
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The Florida Aquarium is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, publicly operated institution located in Tampa, Florida. It is a large scale, 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) aquarium and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The facility is home to more than 20,000 aquatic plants and animals from Florida and all over the world. The facility is located in the Channel District of Downtown Tampa. The Florida Aquarium opened in March 1995 as a privately funded entity, and became a public-private partnership when the city of Tampa assumed responsibility for its debt in 1999.
http://www.flaquarium.org/
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
SS American Victory Mariners' Memorial and Museum Ship
Tampa FL
~0.83 miles from Tampa city center
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The SS American Victory, as her name implies, was one of 534 Victory ships built between mid-1944 and mid-1946 to replace the venerable Liberty.
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
World Trade Center Tampa
Tampa FL
~0.89 miles from Tampa city center
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WORLD TRADE CENTER TAMPA BAY
1101 Channelside Drive, 2nd Fl, Tampa, Fl 33602
Tel: 813.864.3000 Fax: 813.864.4800
Bev Cline
Chief Financial Administrator
Email: bcline@wtctampa.com
Sokha Im, Project & Events Coordinator
Email: wtctampabay@gmail.com
Erica Stafford,
Administrative Assistant
Email: admin@wtctampa.com
http://www.wtctampa.com/
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Business District (Neighborhood)
Tampa FL
~0.91 miles from Tampa city center
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Hyde Park
Tampa FL
~1.46 miles from Tampa city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Ybor City State Museum
Tampa FL
~1.63 miles from Tampa city center
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Traveler Description: The Tampa enclave's colorful history unfolds here.
Attraction type: History museum, Specialty museum, Park, Garden, Other
Activities: Leisure Education
info@ybormuseum.org
Address: 1818 Ninth Avenue Tampa, FL 33605
Tel: 813-247-1434
Fax: 813-247-4010
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Ybor City
Apollo Beach FL
~1.71 miles from Tampa city center
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Known as Tampa’s Latin Quarter for over a century, Ybor City is one of only two National Historic Landmark Districts in Florida. Red brick buildings, wrought iron balconies and narrow brick streets give it an old-world charm that is a refreshing change of pace from the beach and the mall.
Ybor City (pronounced /'ibr/) (EE-borh) is a historic neighborhood in Tampa, Florida located just northeast of downtown. It was founded in the 1880s by cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Spain, Cuba, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories would roll millions of cigars annually.
The neighborhood had features unique among contemporary immigrant communities in the southern United States, most notably its multi-ethnic and multi-racial population and their many mutual aid societies. A slow exodus out of the area that began during the Great Depression accelerated after World War II, leading to a period of abandonment and decay. After decades of neglect, a portion of the original neighborhood has redeveloped into a popular night club and entertainment district. One of the five campuses of Hillsborough Community College is located there as well, HCC Ybor.
The neighborhood has been designated as a National Historic Landmark District, and several structures in the area are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 2008, 7th Avenue, the main commercial thoroughfare in Ybor City, was recognized as one of the “10 Great Streets in America” by the American Planning Association. In 2010 Columbia Restaurant was named a "Top 50 All-American icon" by Nation's Restaurant News magazine.
http://www.ybor.org/
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Raymond James Stadium - Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa FL
~3.57 miles from Tampa city center
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Raymond James Stadium, also known as "The Ray Jay", is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Tampa, Florida. It is home to the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers as well as the NCAA's South Florida Bulls football team. The stadium seats 65,857, and it is expandable to 75,000 for special events. The stadium also hosts the annual Outback Bowl on New Year's Day; the annual pinnacle of USA equestrian showjumping, the AGA/Budweiser American Invitational; and the Monster Jam monster truck event after the end of football season in January or February.
Raymond James Stadium hosted Super Bowl XXXV on January 28, 2001 between the Baltimore Ravens and New York Giants and Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009 between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals.
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Steinbrenner Field - NY Yankees Spring Training
Tampa
~3.75 miles from Tampa city center
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Legends Field is the largest ballpark to host Spring Training in Florida and has the least intimate feel, but that has a lot more to do with its relatively bland design and choice of location than its 10,386-seat capacity.
Legends Field was built amidst the hustle and bustle of Tampa’s busy Dale Mabry Highway. Its neighbor on the other side of the street is Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Spring Training fans are directed to the NFL stadium for parking, which is a pricey $10 in one of Raymond James’ grass lots.
A pedestrian bridge above Dale Mabry connects fans from the parking lot to Legends Field, where a walkway outside of the ballpark in right field takes fans to the main entrance behind home plate, where a nicely manicured mini-version of Monument Park resides.
The ballpark’s spartan design features one large seating bowl that extends symmetrically into the outfield on both sides. A concourse slices through this single deck, splitting it into two sections. The large two-level structure behind home plate houses the ample press box and the ballpark’s dozen luxury suites.
Although it was built fairly recently (1996), Legends Field lacks some of the popular favorites now found in the modern ballpark, such as berm seating and a concourse open to the playing field. And because of the Yankees’ popularity, the large crowds that regularly fill the ballpark in March have lengthy waits to use the small number of bathrooms.
The ballpark does have some very nice touches that Yankees fans will be sure to appreciate. The white façade that graces the roof and encircles the stadium is reminiscent of Yankee Stadium’s signature feature, while the playing field dimensions are identical to those at Yankee Stadium. The ivy-covered wall in each team’s bullpen is classy and the distinctive open panel roof design has become the signature hallmark of the Yankees’ spring home. On each side of the ballpark, there are a series of seven open panels between the roof’s façade and the seating bowl. Each panel contains one large letter that spells out the name “Yankees.” The design is atheistically pleasing and gives Legends Field an open feel.
As a spring training facility, Legends Field is probably the least fan-friendly of the 17 ballparks to host Grapefruit League games. Player accessibility is very limited, and during the game the Yankees station ushers in optic yellow outfits on the concourse between the two seating sections. If you have a seat in one of the 200 sections they won’t let you into the 100 sections. They also shoo fans away from the bullpen area. That’s not the norm for Spring Training, as the staff at other ballparks allows fans more leeway during the laidback exhibition games.
And that’s a big part of the problem with seeing a game at Legends Field. The atmosphere here isn’t as fun as it should be. Sure, the video board (one of the only in the Grapefruit League) shows people dancing to Cotton Eye Joe in the 8th inning, just like at Yankee Stadium, but the overall vibe gives the place a business-like feel that’s contradictorily to the easy going nature usually associated with Spring Training games.
If you’re a diehard Yankees fan that won’t matter too much, but the experience in Tampa is different than elsewhere. It also costs more, as ticket prices are barely hovering around affordability: the cheapest seat is $17. The games usually sell out and the fans do stay around here a little while longer than at many other ballparks, where they often begin to hit the exits circa the 6th inning.
What the ballpark lacks in fan accessibility is often made up for in starting game time convenience. The Yankees play about half of their spring schedule at night (7:15), which makes the games easier to attend for the average fan. Most Spring Training venues host only one or two night games each March, and a few don’t have any night games at all. Legends Field easily hosts more night games than any other ballpark in the Grapefruit League.
Although the quaintness of Spring Training is limited at Legends Field, there are some exceptions. During my most recent game here I was able to watch (from the concourse) A-Rod go through a number of drills with a trainer on a practice field after he left the game.
Nonetheless, the lines between Spring Training’s intimate appeal and fan friendliness have been blurred at Legends Field, which is too much an extension of the big league, big business mantra the Yankees march to. The end result is that Tampa offers up a more professional experience than it should, considering the historical appeal of Spring Training.
Under the rule of George Steinbrenner the Yankees have always been a button-down organization, and that’s the problem with the ballpark The Boss had built in his hometown of Tampa.
Legends Field, located on a busy highway in a big city, isn’t your normal Spring Training facility, but the New York Yankees aren’t your typical baseball organization. The reality is the stadium fits the team, for better or worse.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Al Lopez Park
Tampa FL
~4.08 miles from Tampa city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Lowry Park Zoo
Tampa
~4.49 miles from Tampa city center
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Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo is a nonprofit 56-acre (230,000 m2) zoo located in Tampa, Florida. In 2004, Lowry Park Zoo was voted the #1 Family Friendly Zoo in the US by Child Magazine [2], and is recognized by the State of Florida as the center for Florida wildlife conservation and biodiversity (HB 457).
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoological Society, in agreement with the City of Tampa, operates Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization.
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater
4802 US Hwy 301 North Tampa FL
~6.63 miles from Tampa city center
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http://www.i1800askgaryamphitheatretickets.com/?ppcsrc=S272
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Busch Gardens
Tampa FL
~6.76 miles from Tampa city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Florida State Fairgrounds
4800 U.S. Highway 301 N. Tampa FL
~7.85 miles from Tampa city center
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The annual Florida State Fair is a salute to the state's best in agriculture, industry, entertainment and achievement.
The Florida State Fairgrounds is located in Tampa, Florida. In addition to holding the annual Florida State Fair, the fairgrounds also hosts a wide variety of other events throughout the year.
The fairgrounds cover over 355 acres (1.44 km2), with many different types of buildings.
Cracker Country is a rural Florida living history museum located on the Florida State Fairgrounds. It was founded with the purpose of preserving Florida’s rural heritage. The museum recreates an 1890s rural Florida town. Its collection of 13 original buildings dating back from 1870-1912 were relocated from across the state of Florida beginning in 1978 when Cracker Country was established by Mr. and Mrs. Doyle E. Carlton, Jr. Today, the historically furnished buildings recreate the lifestyles of the past; and costumed interpreters portray daily living as Florida pioneers and share the stories of early Floridians’ experiences.
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
University of South Florida
Tampa FL
~7.98 miles from Tampa city center
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The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities, and is a public research university located in Tampa, Florida, USA, with an autonomous campus in St. Petersburg, and branch centers in Sarasota and Lakeland. The main campus is located in North Tampa, near the City of Temple Terrace.
Founded in 1956, USF is the ninth-largest university in the nation and the third largest in the state of Florida, with a total enrollment of 47,122 as of the Fall 2009 semester.
USF is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as engaging "very high research", and is also ranked first in the State of Florida for Research Funding. Furthermore, the university's proposal to create the Florida Center of Excellence for Biomolecular Identification and Target Therapeutics, an $8 million proposal, was ranked highest among all grant proposals considered by the Florida Technology, Research and Scholarship Board in 2006. The Princeton Review ranked the university among the "366 Best Colleges" in the United States. USF is also one of the nation's top centers for the advancement in research of treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.
The university lists five strategic priorities: student success, research and innovation, community engagement, global literacy and impact, and integrated, interdisciplinary inquiry.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Adventure Island
4500 E. Bougainvillea Ave. Tampa FL - 1-888-800-5447
~7.99 miles from Tampa city center
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Adventure Island is a water park owned by Busch Gardens Amusements.
http://www.4adventure.com/Ai/default.aspx
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Museum of Science and Industry
Tampa FL
~8.17 miles from Tampa city center
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The Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) is a science museum in Tampa, Florida, USA. It is the location of Florida's only IMAX Dome Theatre.
MOSI was completed in 1980 and permanently opened to the public in 1982.
The Museum of Science & Industry was reaccredited in April 2008 by the American Association of Museums (AAM).
MOSI's funding stems from private donations and support from Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa.
The museum is located directly across the street from the University of South Florida which partners with the museum in many research fellowships.
Summer Science Camps. MOSI offers summer educational camps usually lasting from June through August. These camps range in various scientific topics from outdoor wild adventures to learning about sea creatures to creating animation. The camps are designed for students Pre-K through twelfth grade. MOSI's Summer Science Camp is the largest single-site science and technology camp in the United States.[citation needed] In addition to youth programs, MOSI also offers senior programs.
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Mosi Science Museum
Tampa FL
~8.20 miles from Tampa city center
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The Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) is a science museum in Tampa, Florida, USA. It is the location of Florida's only IMAX Dome Theatre.
MOSI was completed in 1980 and permanently opened to the public in 1982.
The Museum of Science & Industry was reaccredited in April 2008 by the American Association of Museums (AAM).
MOSI's funding stems from private donations and support from Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa.
The museum is located directly across the street from the University of South Florida which partners with the museum in many research fellowships.
Summer Science Camps. MOSI offers summer educational camps usually lasting from June through August. These camps range in various scientific topics from outdoor wild adventures to learning about sea creatures to creating animation. The camps are designed for students Pre-K through twelfth grade. MOSI's Summer Science Camp is the largest single-site science and technology camp in the United States.[citation needed] In addition to youth programs, MOSI also offers senior programs.
The Kids in Charge! features several different learning skills to cover a number of scientific concepts. The four main exhibits, Activate, Investigate, Kids Create, and Fields to Meals are all found at Kids in Charge!.
The Kids in Charge! exhibit was headed by an advisory board consisting of 26 children. The Board included children between the ages of 10 and 17. The kids provided feedback and the innovative ideas for the exhibit.
Notable parts include the bed of nails and the tug of war exhibit. In the bed of nails, people are able to lie on the bed unharmed because the weight of the individual is evenly distributed over the nails. The tug-of-war attraction is a game of pulling of rope to one side, but the device that the rope is connected to acts as a lever, which causes one side to always be the winning side.
Sponsors continually contribute towards the various exhibits at MOSI. The cost of the Kids in Charge! exhibit was about three million dollars.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Tampa
Leading Edge Aviation
6582 Eureka Springs Rd Tampa FL
~8.35 miles from Tampa city center
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