The Gillespie Museum

Summer Hours (May 10 - June 29):  Thursdays and Fridays 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Florida Formations, a new exhibit on Florida geology

Florida Formations tells the geologic history of the state through its distinctive rock units, an array of ocean-formed carbonate formations, each with a story to tell us about past Florida environments and past climates.

 

a better nectar

Co-hosted by the Gillespie Museum and the Hand Art Center, a better nectar was a multisensory installation based on artist Jessica Rath’s extensive research into co-evolutionary communication between flowering plants and their pollinators. Though this exciting exhibition has come and gone, other pollination-related displays and activities continue in the Gillespie and across campus through the spring semester. The Pollinator Project centers around the ongoing research of Stetson biology professors Cindy Bennington and Peter May in the Volusia Sandhill Ecosystem, an environmental restoration in progress on the Gillespie Museum grounds.

While enhancing the use of the museum for collaborative field work, and as an outdoor classroom, the Pollinator Project also includes an indoor Native Pollinator Research Station with an insect collection, seed library, and other associated displays in the Gillespie Museum's east gallery. An art installation called Pollination Guild in the Sage Science Center was a community endeavor facilitated by Brown Visiting Teacher Scholar Madison Creech that features printed fabric panels and oversized partridge pea flowers with a visiting bee. Other related events include Beekeeping Workshop (March 16), Citizen + Science: Monitoring Native Pollinators in the Volusia Sandhill (March 23 - May 2); and Wildflower Wednesday (April 18).

 

Storied Stone

This small exhibit was inspired by Nicholas Pearson’s The Seven Archetypal Stones, which explores some of the lessons—geological, historic, cultural and spiritual—of the mineral world. Our small display and guided walk through the museum’s collections tell a few stories about these seven captivating stones.

Museum Hours

Summer 

May 10 - June 29, 2018

• Thursday & Friday: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Closed to visitors in July.

Museum will reopen with regular hours for Stetson University Fall Semester in late August.

Staff may be reached by email (gillespiemuseum@stetson.edu) or phone, 386.822.7330.

Admissions

Walk-in Visitors

• No admissions fee. Donations support educational programming.

Educational Programs (Classes K-12, scouts, homeschool groups, etc.)

• Students: $2.50
• Teachers/Chaperones: No charge