Pensacola Museum of History, Local history museum in downtown Pensacola, United States.
The Pensacola Museum of History occupies a three-story Mediterranean Revival structure with wide eaves, red tile roof, and an arched entry porch. Inside, the first floor displays archaeological finds and preservation records, while other galleries rotate exhibitions on regional heritage.
The building was constructed in 1907 as Pensacola's City Hall and functioned as the city's administrative center. It was converted to a museum in 1988 to preserve and display regional artifacts and historical records.
The museum's name changed in 2021: the University of West Florida Board of Trustees voted 5–4 to drop the T. T. Wentworth Jr. name after documents showed he led the local Ku Klux Klan chapter. One floor still displays his eclectic collections, including a mummified cat.
The museum sits in downtown Pensacola and is easily walkable with nearby parking available. Visitors can purchase a combined ticket valid for seven days that provides access to multiple local historic sites and the city's children's museum.
The building was modeled on the Alamo mission style and was listed in 1989 as the Pensacola City Hall in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press. Hurricane Ivan damaged it in 2004, and when it reopened in 2005 a new exhibit compared that storm with the 1926 hurricane that had also hit the building.
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