Tower detail of the Lightner Museum in St. Augustine is a city located in St. Johns County, Florida, in the region known as Floridas First Coast. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 11,592. It is the county seat of St. Johns County6. Contents // 1 History 2 Geography 3 Demographics... St. Augustine, Florida.

Taxidermic bird (detail) at the Lightner Museum.

Shrunken head exhibited at the Lightner Museum.

The Lightner Museum is an interesting museum of miscellaneous objects, mostly American Victorian can refer to: people from or attributes of places called Victoria (disambiguation page), including Victoria, Australia, people who lived during the British Victorian era of the 19th century, and aspects of the Victorian era, for example: Victorian architecture Victorian fashion Victorian morality Victorian literature This is a disambiguation page... Victorian, housed within a historic hotel building in downtown St. Augustine is a city located in St. Johns County, Florida, in the region known as Floridas First Coast. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 11,592. It is the county seat of St. Johns County6. Contents // 1 History 2 Geography 3 Demographics... St. Augustine, Florida. The building is now listed on the The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. As of 2004, the list includes approximately 78,000 entries, including all National Historic Landmarks and other icons of American culture, history, engineering, and architecture. Administered by the... National Register of Historic Places.

The museum occupies three floors of the former Hotel Alcazar, commissioned by Henry Morrison Flagler Born January 2, 1830 Hopewell, New York Died May 20, 1913 West Palm Beach, Florida Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was a United States tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner. He was a key figure in the development of... Henry M. Flagler, and built in 1887 in the Spanish Renaissance style. It was designed by architects Carrère and Hastings, who also designed the Ponce de Leon Hotel across the street (now part of Flagler College is an independent, four-year, co-educational, residential institution of higher learning in St. Augustine, Florida. This year (2003) it celebrates 35 years of providing educational excellence. The College offers 20 majors, 26 minors and two pre-professional programs in selected studies emphasizing liberal arts, education and business... Flagler College). Both buildings are notable as being among the earliest examples of poured concrete buildings in the world. These architects later designed the New York Public Library, central block, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects (June, 2003) The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the United States of Americas leading libraries, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. Its main building on Fifth... New York Public Library and the U.S. Senate office building. The hotel boasted a steam room, massage parlor, gymnasium and sulfur baths, as well as the world's largest indoor swimming pool. However, after years as an elegant winter resort for wealthy patrons, the hotel closed in 1932. In 1946, Chicago publisher Otto C. Lightner purchased the building to house his extensive collection of Victoriana. He opened the museum two years later, and later donated it to the city of St. Augustine.

The building is an attraction in itself, centering on an open palm courtyard with an arched stone bridge spanning a fishpond. The Museum is housed in the former health facilities of the hotel, i.e, the spa and Turkish bath, as well as its three-storey ballroom.

The museum's first floor houses a Victorian village, with shop fronts representing emporia selling period wares; a Victorian Science and Industry Room displays shells, rocks, minerals, and Native American artifacts in beautiful turn-of-the-20th-century cases, as well as stuffed birds, a small Egyptian Mummified cat from Ancient Egypt. Musée du Louvre, Paris A mummy is a preserved corpse. The best-known mummies are those that have been embalmed with the specific purpose of preservation, particularly in ancient Egypt. In China, preserved corpses have been recovered from submerged cedar coffins packed with medicinal... mummy, model A steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, converting it to mechanical work. Steam engines were used in pumps, locomotive trains and steam ships, and were essential to the Industrial Revolution. They are still used for electrical power... steam engines, elaborate examples of Victorian A glass pipe made by lampworking Hand-blown glass beads and pendants Glassblowing is the process of forming glass into useful shapes while the glass is in a molten, semi-liquid state. While the first evidence of man-made glass occurs in Mesopotamia in the Late-Third/Early-Second Millennium... glassblowing, golden elephant bearing the world on its back, and a This article or section should be merged with Tzantza Shrunken head from the upper Amazon region, in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford An authentic shrunken head is a human head that has been prepared for display. The manufacture of shrunken heads was formerly the specialty of a number of ethnic... shrunken head; and a Music Room, filled with mechanized musical instruments, dating from the 1870s through the 19020s, that ring, tinkle, bellow, crash and thump.

The second floor contains examples of cut glass, Victorian art glass and stained glass work of Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist most famous for his Art Nouveau pieces in stained glass. He also painted and designed jewelry and furniture. Louis was born the son of Charles Lewis, who was the founder of the world-famous Tiffany & Co... Louis Comfort Tiffany's studio. The third floor, in the ballroom's upper balcony, exhibits paintings, sculpture, and furniture, include a grande escritoire created for Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, born September 2, 1779, in Ajaccio, Corsica, was one of three younger brothers of the Emperor Napoleon I of France, who made him King of Holland in 1806 and deposed him as King in 1810. Louis was married in 1802 to Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter of... Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, in the period 1806-1810.

External links

• Official Lightner Museum website (http://www.lightnermuseum.org/)
• "Florida's Smithsonian" (http://www.gainesvilletoday.com/2003/12/visit_saint_augustine.html)