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.
A 300-piece collection of antique radios, record players and music boxes from the 1920s through the late 1960s. Accumulated over 60 years by Florida State University alumnus and retired radio broadcaster Jim Kirk. Housed in the WFSU Broadcast Center, the collection includes a 1950s RCA Nipper dog, 1933 Emerson Mickey Mouse radio and vintage Hopalong Cassidy items. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
This 3,000-acre plantation and home boasts an eclectic collection of fine art, crystal, porcelain, and antique furnishings. Wander through the pine and magnolia-dotted grounds, which feature a dog kennel/hospital, cow barn, firehouse, historic cemetery, log cabin schoolhouse, and brick horse stables. It stands as testimony to the sporting life during the early 1800’s.
Tracing Florida's history throughout the centuries, permanent exhibits include a mastodon skeleton, a diorama depicting life along the St.John's river before European contact, a tin-can camper, which brought early tourist to Florida, a recreated Florida steamboat, and a World War II exhibit.
Built in 1890 by John G. Riley, local educator and civic leader, the home is the last visible evidence of Smokey Hollow, an African-American community that once thrived in downtown Tallahassee. Exhibits feature historical artwork and photographs. The museum was rated No. 8 on the Black Entertainment Television’s list of “Must See African American Places in the U.S.”
Catherine Murat, born a Virginian, moved to Florida with her parents where she met and married a Frenchman, Achille Murat. Related to George Washington by birth, she became a French princess by marriage. She lived at Bellevue from 1854 to 1867. In 1860, twenty-five enslaved descendants of Africans lived at Bellevue. They worked in the cotton fields, provided skilled labor, and tended to the cooking, among them members of the Hughes and Lee families. Explore these contrasting plantation communities at Bellevue’s house, kitchen, and slave cabin
Tours of Tallahassee offers First Class multi-day tours of Florida's Capital historic areas and beyond. We maximize the experience by combining each moment with historical and government sites together with our local cuisine. Our tours are mixed between professionally guided and time to explore at your pace. We arrange your transportation, hotel arrangement, meals, sightseeing tours and expect guides. Since we are local, we can can have you feel and see our area like a local.
Florida’s oldest surviving bank building that reopened after the Civil War as the Freedom Savings and Trust Company for emancipated slaves. It later served as a shoe factory, beauty shop, feed store and church. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it houses special exhibits from the Florida A&M University Black Archives.
Sightseeing Narrated Guided Tours
Take a narrated sightseeing tour on an electric golf cart named Wilma, in our comfy SUVs, or for groups, on Stella, our fancy trolley. Tours are for all ages. The narrated tours include seeing The Florida Capitol Complex, the Museum of Florida History, the Governor's Mansion, outdoor art and many other sites. The tours are offered daily and multi-day passes are available. Call to make reservations. Other types of tours available.
Promenade through Tallahassee's oldest continuous green space. Chain of seven parks encompass historic homes, anchored by historic cemetaries on the west and lush native flora on the east. Downtown, running east and west between Call St and College Ave.
850-877-4202
