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|owner=[[Rainwater familyWest Florida Historic Preservation, Inc.]]
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|completion_date=[[1908]]
|style=Spanish mission style
|size=Three stories
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30.4087, -87.213142, T. T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum
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The '''T.T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum''' is the a museum of history in Pensacola. It is located on [, named for [Jefferson Street]] adjacent to [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]Theodore Thomas Wentworth, Jr. The building is part of the [[Historic Pensacola Village]] museum complex.
==Original museum==The original museum was in fact a roadside stand owned by [[T.T. Wentworth, Jr.|Wentworth]], which opened in the suburb of [[Ensley]] in [[1957]]. Wentworth was paraphrased as saying, in the [[1980s]], that he would donate everything in his collection if he could earn a permanent spot to house his collection in Pensacola. A state grant was signed by Governor [[Bob Martinez]] to allow the city to renovate the old city hall, and the museum was officially opened in [[1988]].
==Collections==
Only one floor is dedicated to Wentworth's eccentric collections — which includes a mummified cat, among other things. The other two floors illustrate life in the Florida Panhandle over the centuries, some of the more mainstream artifacts coming from Wentworth's collection. The other floors house a science interactive museum that is wonderful for children.