The South Florida Collections Management Center (SFCMC) is a multi-park museum program for Big Cypress National Preserve, De Soto National Memorial, and Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, and Everglades National Park.
The center coordinates the acquisition and preservation of museum collections, which support research and park needs.
SFCMC is in the Everglades. These museum house more than 7 million museum items.
Each of the five parks has a distinct museum and archive collection based on the purpose, history and the resources in the park.
The Everglades National Park houses:
- 655,757 archaeology objects
• 55 ethnology objects
• 804 history objects
• 2,710,511 archives objects
• 112 art objects
• 133,634 biology objects
• 3,287 geology objects
• 3,504,160 total objects
What type of objects are these exactly?
- Objects recovered from shipwrecks (16th-20th centuries).
- Objects made by Seminole and Miccosukee people like dolls, canoes, and tools.
- Suit of armor from the 16th
- A 19th-century cannon.
- A 20th-century swamp buggy.
- Mollusks, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals.
- Documents, photographs, maps, films, drawings, and plans about the park.
- Newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, journals, personal papers.
- And more!
The public is welcome to visit the South Florida Collections Management Center museum and archives collections located in the Daniel Beard Center and Dr. Bill Robertson Center in Everglades National Park. The Daniel Beard Center is in the Nike Missile Site HM-69. The center is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. by appointment only. It is closed on all federal holidays and whenever the Everglades National Park is closed.
If you’d like to donate any objects or materials to the park collections, visit https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1565/contactus.htm.
Explore the Everglades on a Private Airboat Tour
There’s so much to see and do in the Everglades – we’re happy there are museums to house such important parts of the Park’s past. It’s important to see where we’ve come as a civilization.
If you want to learn about the park while on the water, go on an airboat tour. You’ll learn a lot about the areas. To book an airboat tour, call Captain Mitch’s Airboat Tours at 800-368-0065 or click our Everglades Private Airboat Tours page.
