点评:The Florida Museum of Natural History highlights 6,000 years of fishing along Florida's Gulf coast and 12,000 years of human history in the Southeastern United States. That's a lot of history. And it is covered in more than one site. The main facility is located at 3215 Hull Road on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, at Powell Hall and the attached McGuire Center, in the Cultural Plaza, where it shares space with the Harn Museum of Art and the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The main research facility, Dickinson Hall, is located on the east side of the campus at the corner of Museum Road and Newell Drive. Start at Powell Hall, where permanent public exhibits focus on the flora, fauna, fossils and historic peoples of Florida. Perhaps the most interesting exhibit in Powell Hall highlights South Florida Peoples and Environments, which consists of 10 galleries beginning with a recreation scene of a Calusa fishing village as it may have looked about 500 years ago. The McGuire Center's main exhibit is the Butterfly Rainforest, a display of over 50 species of butterfly and moth species, totaling some 1,000 individuals, in a large, outdoor enclosed space attached to the museum. Dickinson Hall houses over 25 million objects and artifacts in its collections, which cover such fields as botany, paleontology, ichthyology, mammalogy, archeology of the Caribbean and Florida and ethnography of Latin and North America. Personally, I was most interested in the findings of the de Soto archaeological survey project, conducted from 1986 to 1991, which was aimed to locate and identify early Spanish-Indian contact period sites in north Florida. It documents the explorations of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in the early 1500s and materials uncovered in St. Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied European-founded settlement in the continental United States, dating to 1565.
翻译:佛罗里达自然历史博物馆展示了佛罗里达州墨西哥湾沿岸6000年的捕鱼历史,以及美国东南部地区12000年的人类发展史。这可是相当漫长的一段历史啊!这些内容在多个场馆中均有展示。主展馆位于盖恩斯维尔的佛罗里达大学校园内:具体地址为赫尔路3215号,坐落于文化广场上的鲍威尔大厅及与之相连的麦圭尔中心内。该建筑与哈恩艺术博物馆及菲利普斯表演艺术中心共用空间。主要研究设施——迪金森楼位于校园东侧,处在博物馆路与纽厄尔大道的交汇处。首先从鲍威尔楼开始参观,那里有面向公众的永久性展览,内容涉及佛罗里达州的动植物、化石以及历史上的居民。鲍威尔楼中最有趣的展览或许要数“南佛罗里达的居民与环境”。该展区由10个画廊组成,开篇便是约500年前卡卢萨人渔村的复原场景。麦圭尔中心的主要展览为“蝴蝶雨林”,即在博物馆附设的一个大型户外封闭空间内展示的50多种蝴蝶与飞蛾,数量总计约1,000只。迪金森大厅的馆藏包含超过2,500万件物品与文物,涵盖植物学、古生物学、鱼类学等诸多领域。哺乳动物学、加勒比海与佛罗里达的考古学,以及拉丁美洲和北美洲的民族志。就我个人而言,我最感兴趣的是1986年至1991年间开展的德索托考古调查项目所取得的成果,该项目的目的是在佛罗里达北部寻找并确认西班牙人与印第安人早期接触时期的遗址。该项目记录了16世纪初西班牙探险家埃尔南多·德索托的探险过程,以及在圣奥古斯丁发掘出的各种文物。这是美国本土上历史最悠久且至今仍在使用的、由欧洲人建立的定居点,其历史可追溯到1565年。