• Daily - Dolphin Cruise from The Florida Aquarium in Tampa Bay - One of the most playful, yet graceful animals of the sea is the dolphin. On this fun eco-cruise from The Florida Aquarium in Tampa Bay, you will see these lively mammals in their natural environment from aboard the 64-foot catamaran, Bay Spirit.
• Weekly - Ybor City Saturday Market
  The Ybor City Saturday Market is open EVERY Saturday, year-round, rain or shine offering Fresh Produce, Fresh Breads, Prepared Foods, Jewelry, Purses, Arts and Crafts. Parking is FREE, pets are welcome and admission is FREE!
• Weekends - Florida Railroad Museum
  The Museum is open Saturday and Sunday, year-round, excluding a two week holiday for Christmas and New Years. The Museum's train operates rain-or-shine. Bring the whole family out this summer and take advantage of our Kids Ride Free promotion. With every adult ticket purchased, two children ages 3-11 ride with our compliments on all weekend excursions during July and August. Throughout the year, the Museum schedule special event weekends that couple exciting themes with a ride on the train. Examples include a train robbery, World War II re-enactment and a trip to the North Pole.
• July 12 - Sept. 28 Not Easy Being Green
  The exhibition showcases how people can live better, healthier and with less stress by using urban design concepts that cause less impact on the environment. It explores products that are environmentally friendly and art that raises social consciousness. Artists interested in making a positive difference in both their lives and in their communities will be invited to design products that will provide real solutions for people to live better, healthier lives with less impact on the environment. The exhibition will provide information, ideas, actual solutions/products and motivation for community members to live more sustainably.  
• Thru Aug 17 - Forever Plaid
  One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950’s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was. Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the “Plaids” are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the 50’s.
• Thru Aug 31 - Summer Classic Movie Series
  Sunday Afternoon June 1st - Aug 31st $8.00 all ages, all films. Built in 1926 as one of America's most elaborate "movie palaces", the Tampa Theatre today is a fiercely protected and generously supported landmark. Designed by famed theatre architect John Eberson, the Tampa is a superior example of the "atmospheric" style of theatre design. Inside the Tampa, audiences are transported to a lavish, romantic Mediterranean courtyard replete with old world statuary, flowers, and gargoyles. Over it all is a nighttime sky replete with twinkling stars and floating clouds.
• Thru Sept 2 - Arthur's World
  In Arthur’s™ World, children engage in role-playing and reading activities in their favorite Arthur™settings. The exhibit includes Mr. Ratburn’s Classroom, the Elwood City Library, The Read Family Kitchen and The Backyard Sleepover. Fun, Arthur-related activities are designed to reinforce the messages behind the Arthur book character and television series: that being smart and into books is cool; and that kids’ face, and can resolve, real-life dilemmas.
• Thru Sept 7 - Dinosaurs!
  Dinosaurs! is a 5,000-square-foot exhibition that brings guests face to face with creatures that once roamed the earth over 150 million years ago. The exhibition features ten towering animatronic dinosaurs that come alive and simulate life in the Mesozoic era. The creatures on exhibit include a Pterandodon, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Parasaurolophus and Stegosaurus. In addition, guests will see both Ankylosaurus and Triceratops mothers with their young. Along with viewing the enormous dinosaurs, guests are encouraged to engage in hands-on paleontological activites and discover exactly what it takes to search for the fossils of these great creatures.
• Thru Sept 21 - Women ~ Dali's View
  A selection of 70 works from the permanent collection (painting, drawing, watercolors, prints and objects) representative Dalí’s various creations of the female image. The selected works help trace the progression of Dalí’s depiction of women from his early student days - images of various women as models in academic studies - to a later period when Gala becomes his chief model and muse. As a young man, the artist’s sister Ana María was a prominent model.
• Thru Sept 28 -Treasures of NOAA's Ark
  NOAA has in its care a wealth of resources that recall the agency's proud history and dedicated service to the Nation. These include maps, charts, photographs, books, scientific instruments and other artifacts -- some centuries old. NOAA is also the steward of large-scale historic and cultural resources, such as buildings and shipwrecks. These resources are of immense value not only to NOAA but also to the American people -- their true owners.
• Thru Sept - Tampa Bay Rays Baseball
  The Rays appear to be headed to the Playoffs, and dare we hope, the Series? There is a lot of baseball action at the Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg this season. Come on out and enjoy the action.
• Thru Oct 15 - Fiber Arts Take Flight
  Tampa International Airport embellishes the main terminal décor with fiber art – its newest rotating public art Exhibit, “Fiber Arts Take Flight.” Twelve local artists of Beyond Perfection Artcloth Group create art cloth by layering cloth with dyes, paints, discharges, screen prints, stamps and foils. The group says that if they wanted cloth that was perfect -- they would buy something machine made. Something dyed with even colors, something with perfectly shaped and sized images. However, these artisans are seeking something Beyond Perfection, something individual and different.
• Thru Dec 28 -  Ab-Fab-Cabaret
  Starts Aug. 22. The hilarious chronicles of the smash hit British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous are brought to life as cabaret and talk show based upon antics of the women who made it famous, and weekly featured guests who virtually stop the show.
• Thru Dec 31 - MEMENTOS FROM UNDER THE MINARETS
  Over the course of its 40-year existence, Henry B. Plant’s Tampa Bay Hotel inspired its share of mementos. Plant’s “Moorish-Spanish” resort in “Tampa Bay, Florida—land of oranges, pines and palmettos” was depicted on thousands of souvenirs and in advertisements that enticed snow-weary Northerners down to the Sunny South. Scenes of the Hotel reinforced the notion that it was a “health seekers paradise” and “a mecca for the Tourists on pleasure bent. “ Emblems of the Plant System—Plant’s line of railroads, steamships and hotels—along with images of Tampa, native flora and fauna, and the Tampa Bay Hotel appeared on china, glasses, silverware, playing cards, sheet music, jewelry, stereoscopic cards and postcards. Some items were made in America, but many were manufactured in Europe, Japan and China. These souvenirs were sold at “a little shop” on the Hotel grounds. They were also showcased in stores throughout downtown Tampa, with items “made expressly for” Nunez, Adams, M. Ressler, Wm. A. Morrison, and W.H. Beckwith Jewelry, to name a few. Letters and memorabilia from Hotel guests-- preserved the memories of their stay at “the adorning gem of the Plant System hotels.”

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