Historical Society Of Central Florida Inc

Education: the history center offers a variety of programming for individuals of all backgrounds and interests, including school tours (public, private, homeschool), youth visitors, adults, and families. The history center offers hybrid (onsite and virtual) programming for lunch and learns, the brechner speaker series, and other programs designed to be as accessible as possible. While daily admissions for the period came in strong with 10,203 regular visitors. We had 145 local schools do an on-site tour for 112,034 students; a total of 28,013 participated in our programmatic offerings.

Collections and research: the historical society owns and preserves a major collection of historical artifacts, archives, images, and oral histories which fulfill the mission of the institution. They are used to support the programming and exhibitions of the history center. This collection contains more than 30,000 three-dimensional items, 4,500 archival holdings, 16,000 historic postcards, 300,000 historic photographs, and nearly 1,000 oral histories. It also contains more than 2,000,000 linear feet of local television new coverage from the 1950s through the early 1980s. The history center includes a research library and a dedicated staff who assisted with 218 research requests from the public and collected 67 oral histories.