St. Petersburg Museum of History Pinellas Peninsula. The museum hosts a variety of traveling exhibits, evening events, guest speakers and more that promote adult lifelong learning. The St. Petersburg Museum of History has a significant Archive/Special Collections that includes over 5,000 indexed city photographs, 32,000 artifacts and other historic photos and documents. St. Petersburg Museum of History St. Petersburg Museum of History is located in St. Petersburg, Florida and exhibits cover the area's history. The museum was founded in 1920 as the St. Petersburg Memorial Historical Society. The city of St. Petersburg, Florida granted the organization use of an old aquarium building in 1922 where
20th-century art Conceptual Art, Dada and Pop Art ideas led to Damien Hirst's exhibition of a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine. 20th-century art Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism. Another German group was Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), led by Kandinsky in Munich, who associated the "blue