Florida

We took a drive to Cocoa Beach to visit the newly re-located Wizard of Oz Museum (we’d tried to visit a month ago but they were in the middle of relocating). It’s a somewhat pricey visit but there is so very much to see that I felt it was good value for money (we spent about 1-1/2 hours there).

For me the main focus was all the Frank L Baum and Wizard Of Oz artifacts; there were hundreds of older (and less old) books including many in the Wizard Of Oz world that I’d never heard of before:

There were many many non-book trinkets, collectibles, tie-in merchandise, and more; something fascinating for everyone surely!

Additional to all this memorabilia is a separate “immersive” experience, a huge room with many projection devices showing images on all walls and the floor. The immersive “Wizard Of Oz” part was a bit odd with strange not-quite-human animated figures and a curious selection of “locations” (the moving yellow brick road on the floor was effective). But I really enjoyed the more artistic / peaceful immersive Van Gogh part … each part lasts maybe 15 minutes and the room is on continuous repeat from one to the other and back:

Here is a few video clips from the immersive experience:

Although our east coast road trip has ended, we still had reasons to drive another few hours today, over to St Petersburg. While there we visited The Imagine Museum which has a splendid array of glass sculptures (and other art)!

A second floor has quite different art, also interesting …