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We were so excited to attend the Fifth Avenue Arts Festival this year with our Pop-Up Museum AND our Pop-Up Gift Shop! This was the 45th annual weekend of the popular community event hosted by the Cultural Arts Coalition, and a great opportunity to bring the Florida Museum out to the heart of Gainesville.

In honor of International Museum Day on May 18, we celebrated museum collections. From mammoth bones to butterfly specimens and Seminole artifacts, our collections are full of millions of cool objects. Our education team set up a fun challenge inviting visitors to match up collection objects to the correct scientific collection.

We also brought some neat hands-on activities and items from our teaching collection for people to touch and learn about.

Our Pop-Up Gift Shop team showed up to complete the full Museum experience, offering popular goodies from our gift shop like t-shirts, jewelry, educational toys, books and so much butterfly stuff. We also had a selection of plants for sale this weekend!

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