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Cracker Country is a rural Florida living history museum located on the Florida State Fairgrounds. We are open the first Saturday of every month, except in February, for our Discover the Past and Hands-on History events.

Want to enjoy our history for free?

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Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day 2010

September 25th

Cracker Country is proud to once again participate in Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day on Saturday, September 25th.  This year marks the 6th annual Museum Day and our second year joining in this national effort to promote history, culture and the arts.

To partake in this offer, visit the Smithsonian Magazine website and download a Museum Day Admission Card. This card will admit two guests inside our museum for FREE. In addition, we will admit each additional guest for half of our normal admission price. Adult tickets will be $3.50, students six to twelve years old and senior citizens tickets are $3.00. Children five and under are admitted free. For more information, e-mail Susan Obarski at obarsks@doacs.state.fl.us or call 813-627-4225.

Sharing the history…

Help promote our history, culture, and the arts by sharing your Museum Day experiences online. Please visit Smithsonian Magazine’s Facebook page as well as our own and share your stories and photographs of your museum visit.

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Discover the Past

October 2nd & 16th

10am-4pm

Imagine it’s the year 1898 and you have just settled in rural Florida.  What would you be doing, seeing and experiencing?  To find out, step through our doorway into history and Discover the Past!

Discover the Past programs let you use your senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing to relive early rural Florida at your own pace.  Perhaps you will churn and taste butter, help make a rope, spin wool into yarn, or maybe feel the soil as you help plant crops. Activities and programs change with the seasons so you’ll want to come back often for new experiences.

This program is an exceptional value too.  An adult admission ticket is $ 7.00 each; students six to twelve years old and senior citizens tickets are $ 6.00 each.  Children five and under are admitted free.  Parking is free for this event when visitors enter the Fairgrounds via the Orient Road entrance.

For more information about this exciting new program call Susan Obarski, Programs Supervisor at 813-627-4225 or feel free to send her an email:  obarsks@doacs.state.fl.us

Hands-on History Tours
October 2nd and 16th
9am-11am

Give your youth organization the opportunity to learn about the past and become a part of it.  Led by one of our knowledgeable historical interpreters, youth groups can spend the morning experiencing life as a Florida pioneer through hands-on chores and practices of the late 1800s.

Hands-on history tours are offered the first Saturday of every month from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  The cost of the tour is $6.00 per person and includes admission to “Discover the Past” after the tour.  Reservations are required.  Available for groups of 10 or more only, please.  This program is not offered in February.

Parking is free for this event when visitors enter the Fairgrounds via the Orient Road entrance. To make a reservation online and get more information, visit our website at http://www.crackercountry.org or contact Susan Obarski by e-mail obarsks@doacs.state.fl.us or call 813-627-4225.


Parking is free for Cracker Country events when visitors enter the Fairgrounds via the Orient Road entrance.