Stuart Heritage Museum, Local history museum in downtown Stuart, Florida.

The Stuart Heritage Museum occupies a historic commercial building and displays artifacts, historical photographs, and documents that document Martin County's growth and development. The space is arranged to guide visitors through different periods and aspects of the region's past.

George W. Parks built the two-story frame building in 1901, running his Geo. W. Parks Grocery and General Merchandise Store on the ground floor and living upstairs. In 1913 it became the Stuart Mercantile Company, and by the 1960s it housed the Stuart Feed Store. The feed store was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture in 1989, and the building now serves as a museum.

The building itself carries the museum's story: George W. Parks ran a grocery and general merchandise store on the ground floor from 1901 and lived upstairs, and in 1913 it became the Stuart Mercantile Company. The collection of more than 10,000 objects spans the 1880s to the 1950s, so the goods and tools on display echo the trades once conducted in these rooms.

The museum sits on Flagler Avenue in downtown Stuart and offers free admission with regular weekday hours. Guests should plan for a walking tour of the exhibits and can expect modest crowds, especially on weekday mornings.

The museum's collection grew to more than 10,000 artifacts spanning the 1880s to the 1950s. In April 2010 the 1920s Talley and Evans Crary Sr. House was cut in half and moved to the vacant lot just west of the former feed store, where it still awaited restoration and museum use.