The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, Western and wildlife art museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art occupies a building in St. Petersburg, Florida, whose veined sandstone walls recall American Southwestern canyons, with carvings reminiscent of Mesa Verde cliff dwellings and weathered copper and turquoise panels echoing Native American turquoise jewelry. Inside, sculptures, paintings, jewelry and artifacts by 20th- and 21st-century artists are divided among eight galleries, from Introductory and Early West to Native Life, Native Artists, the Jewel Box, Frontier, Wildlife and New West.

Businessman Thomas James and his wife Mary spent $75 million to create the museum, which opened in St. Petersburg in 2018. It houses thousands of pieces from their collection, spanning traditional and contemporary works of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The eight galleries separate works by theme: the Native Artists Gallery shows only contemporary Native American artists, while the Native Life Gallery holds paintings and sculptures mostly by non-Native artists who relied on friendships and historical research. The Jewel Box explains turquoise types and their source mines, and the Frontier Gallery features Chinese-American artists.

The museum occupies a building clad in veined sandstone, with weathered copper and turquoise panels; the entrance and galleries are on the ground level, and the eight galleries are arranged in sequence from the Introductory Gallery onward. Family tours end with a studio session inside the museum, and school tours and summer art camps are offered. Allow time for the short film in the Introductory Gallery before continuing.

The building's exterior uses veined sandstone carved to resemble Mesa Verde cliff dwellings, with weathered copper and turquoise panels echoing the turquoise jewelry inside. The Jewel Box gallery explains the different types of turquoise and the mines they come from.