Florida is more than just old people and lunatics

My mom just got back from visiting my grandmother in Florida. On her trip, she visited the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. It only costs $10 to get in, and you can tour the house, museum, and grounds, including a lovely rose garden. She brought back some literature on the place, and it's AMAZING. Very decadent Roaring '20s, if you're into that sort of thing.

They "gathered important works by Cranach, Rubens, Poussin, Hals, Van Dyck, Pietro da Cortona, Guercino and other major artists who worked primarily from 1500 to about 1750. The Old Master collection, now including approximately 750 paintings, is the most important area of the Museum's holdings and within it, Italian paintings that are among the rarest and most celebrated in the country. The Museum's art collection now consists of over 10,000 objects that include a wide variety of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods and from throughout the world."

Later, an entire Italian Baroque theatre interior was importerd from Italy in the 1950s and reinstalled on the grounds.

Definitely check it out if you get a chance!