Gulfport History Museum, FL

09/16/2026

🎆 Have you explored the contents of the Bicentennial Time Capsule yet? Come by the museum to check out the new exhibit! Items not currently on display can be viewed by request.
🎆 The nearly 200 items from the time capsule are also available to browse on our online catalog: https://hub.catalogit.app/gulfport-history-museum/folder/*-bicentennial-time-capsule

07/10/2026

🗄️ The first batch of items from the City of Gulfport Florida Bicentennial Time Capsule is now available to view on our online catalog!
🗄️ Take a look at the photographs of events held in Gulfport to celebrate the Bicentennial throughout 1976.
🗄️ Items will be published in batches as they are cataloged—we'll let you know when more are added.

Items from the Gulfport Bicentennial Time Capsule buried in February 1977 and opened on July 4, 2026. Work in progress: items will be added in batches as they are cataloged.

04/27/2026

⚾ April 27th is National Babe Ruth Day! Baseball legend Babe Ruth (1895-1948) was a regular visitor of St. Petersburg and Gulfport, signing a contract with the New York Yankees at the Hotel Rolyat in March 1932 for $75,000 (approximately $1.7 million today). This contract was auctioned in 2019 for nearly $300,000.

The Hotel Rolyat opened in 1926 and would become the home of the Florida Military Academy in November 1932, just 8 months after Ruth's contract signing.

12/29/2025

🎣 Recent donation to the collection!
🎣 A real photo postcard of Martin's Bait House on Gulfport Pier featuring members of the Martin family. (2025.25.1)
🎣 See more images of life on the water in Gulfport on our online catalog: https://hub.catalogit.app/gulfport-history-museum/folder/boca-ciega-bay-clam-bayou

12/18/2025

🗄️ Digital archives are now available!
🔎 Visit https://libraries.arcasearch.com/usflghm/ to access thousands of pages of digitized records from the City of Gulfport, 1920-1974.

11/20/2025

🎙 Oral histories are streaming! https://soundcloud.com/gulfporthistoricalsociety
🎙 The Gulfport Historical Society (Gulfport Arts & Heritage) interviewed dozens of Gulfport residents in the early 1980s for their book, Our Story of Gulfport, Florida (1985).
🎙 These interviews will continue to be added as they are digitized, with transcriptions to be added in the future.

11/10/2025

🗄 New additions to the collection!
🗄 Any familiar faces? Visit our catalog to learn more about these press photographs: https://hub.catalogit.app/gulfport-history-museum?query=2025.19