Explore the city and check out our list of the top community centers in Tallahassee today! From educational programming to recreational activities, these community centers offer something for everyone.
Exhibits chronicling the life of U.S. Congressman Claude Pepper (1900-1989). Includes interactive exhibits, 1937 Studebaker campaign car, reproduction of House and Senate offices and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Challenger Learning Center is the area’s premier “edu-tainment” destination located in downtown Tallahassee. The Challenger Learning Center (CLC) features a space mission simulator, an IMAX 3D theatre and a dome theatre and planetarium. In addition to stellar planetarium shows, a diverse library of IMAX documentaries, Hollywood films in stunning IMAX clarity and “out-of-this-world” mission simulations, the CLC conducts hands-on, minds-on learning labs, demos and camps and features the RAZOR Lecture Series designed to provide an intellectual experience for the local community. The CLC is an “edu-tainment” destination for lifelong learning!
The former antebellum and hunting plantation of famed naturalist Henry Beadel comprises 4000 acres on the north shore of Lake Iamonia is part of the Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy focusing on fire-ecology, wildlife management and land conservation. Tours offered once a month visit
On the lawn of the Old Capitol are two marble obelisks. The southern monument is dedicated to Capt. John Parkhill. Capt. Parkhill led a company of soldiers known as the Leon Volunteers. The other is a Civil War marble obelisk.
Tallahassee Segway Tours provides guided tours of local area sights and attractions on Segway i2 SE Personal Transporters. These self-balancing, green technology transporters require only a few minutes of training to ride. For Families with children or those who prefer to sit they also have a sporty two-seat scooter so everyone can join the fun.
Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park is one of the state’s most significant Native American ceremonial sites, featuring Florida’s tallest Native American ceremonial mound - 46 feet tall. The people who built the mound are believed to have been members of the Weedon Island Culture, a group of Native Americans who lived in North Florida between 200 and 800 AD
Bear Creek Educational Forest is a 492-acre tract of Lake Talquin State Forest
Programs are FREE for any public or private school group, Scout troop, daycare or any other youth organization. Each program option may include a lesson, game or hands-on activity in the forest. An interpretive hike and souvenir craft to make and take home may also be included. Program activities at Bear Creek are developed using Project Learning Tree and Project Wild/Aquatic Wild guidelines. Correlations to curriculum standards are provided for many academic standards such as the Florida Standards, Common Core, STEM, and Boy and Girl Scouts.
The Bear Creek Tract also offers hiking and camping opportunities as well as the audio-enhanced Living Forest trail where the trees tell their own stories.
The former home of the legendary Florida A&M University football coach Jake Gaither is now a museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Learn about his storied tenure as one of the winningest coaches in college football history through memorabilia, awards, photographs, trophies and more.
The Capitol Complex comprises the 22- story new Capitol building, the House of Representative and Senate Chambers, the Historic Capitol and the Knott Building. See where laws are made and enjoy a panoramic view from the 22nd floor observatory/art gallery.
Florida State University (FSU) is a public, fully accredited, coeducational research institution with an international reputation in the sciences and humanities. With a budget of more than $1 billion, FSU has 15 schools and colleges that offer more than 200 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, professional and specialist degree programs covering a vast array of disciplines. Its 40,000 students work and study alongside a faculty that has included Nobel laureates, members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and winners of the Pulitzer Prize.
Lincoln Academy was first organized during Reconstruction in 1869 and later moved to Frenchtown. Later known as Lincoln High School, it closed in 1967 and the building now serves as a library, community center and has a small museum on the building’s history.
The mission of The Grove Museum is to preserve and interpret the Call-Collins House, its surrounding acreage, and its historical collections, in order to engage the public in dialogue about civil rights and American history.
Built by enslaved craftspeople, the ca. 1840 Call-Collins House at The Grove is one of the best preserved antebellum residences in Florida. Home to several generations of the Call and Collins families, most recently LeRoy and Mary Call Collins, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house and 10.5-acre grounds underwent an award-winning rehabilitation under the leadership of the Florida Department of State and opened to the public in 2017 as The Grove Museum.
