Please visit our Event Calendar!       Take a quick video tour: Sky High Drone Video of the Pioneer Florida Museum    The Pioneer Florida Museum & Village Video   Open: TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Special event and holiday hours vary.) Closed: Sunday, Monday and holidays. Closed Christmas and New Year's Day  

 Aerial View of Pioneer Florida MuseumIt is located on a 20-acre wooded hillside and has over ten main buildings. Eight buildings are historically significant and were moved from surrounding Pasco County communities to the museum grounds. .

Regional climate change coalition has one holdout: Pasco County Commissioner Jack Mariano is Pasco’s representative on the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, the organization that began forming the Tampa Bay Regional Resiliency Coalition earlier this year. But Mariano, a Republican, declined to even pass along the coalition resolution to his commission colleagues for discussion because he said he does not believe in two words central to the document: climate change. Read More........

A Red Tide algae bloom has been plaguing the Southwest Florida coast for months, and recently threatened to invade Tampa Bay (although the latest forecast shows it traveling southward again). Here are some questions and answers about the microscopic toxic threat to taking a fun trip to the beach. Read More...

  The cane fields sit on 450,000 acres of reclaimed wetlands just below Lake Okeechobee in south-central Florida.  Read More...