Historic Pensacola's Museum of Commerce, Historical museum in downtown Pensacola, United States.
Historic Pensacola's Museum of Commerce is a reconstruction of a Pensacola street scene based on businesses that operated in the city between 1880 and 1910. It consists of twenty properties, including stores for toys, leather goods, hardware and music, a print shop, a gas station and a tram. The print shop holds one of the most complete collections of antique printing presses and type in the Southeast.
The museum was created to preserve the shops and trades that defined Pensacola's growth. It sits within one of the city's oldest surviving commercial neighborhoods with roots dating back generations.
The museum displays how people in Pensacola shopped and worked during the late 1800s, with genuine items from shops and trades on view. You can see what goods mattered and how daily commerce shaped the community.
The museum is part of Historic Pensacola, the 28-building complex managed by the University of West Florida's Historic Trust, between Plaza Ferdinand VII and Seville Square. A Tivoli High House boarding house now serves as the ticket office, so begin there. The Bowden Building holds UWF classrooms and collections downstairs and Historic Pensacola's administration offices upstairs.
The print shop inside the museum holds one of the most complete collections of antique printing presses and type in the Southeast. The reconstructed street also includes a gas station and a tram among its twenty properties.
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