Treasure Chest Hands on History Experience, St. Augustine

About Treasure Chest Hands on History Experience

Treasure Chest Hands on History Experience is an interactive museum in St. Augustine where visitors step into colonial life through hands-on activities and guided demonstrations. The museum focuses on the resourceful Minorcan settlers who transformed Florida's coast into a community. Visitors engage in period crafts including making beeswax candles, carding wool, weaving, constructing rope, operating a pump drill, and playing colonial games. All items created during activities go home with visitors as personal keepsakes. The museum offers guided tours led by trained interpreters that last forty-five minutes. Group tours accommodate small families as well as larger groups up to thirty-five guests. Teachers and commercial tour operators can arrange visits with advance notice. The museum charges admission and publishes its prices online. Families seeking hands-on learning experiences, teachers emphasizing interactive education, and anyone curious about authentic colonial daily life find this attraction appealing.