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Lakeland Room

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     RECORDS OF  THE

POLK MUSEUM OF ART

1970 - 2000

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Through the efforts of the Junior League of Greater Lakeland in 1967, the "Youth Museum of Imperial Polk County" was opened in one room of a local church.  In 1968, the name was changed to the "Polk Museum at Lakeland: Science, History and Art."  The center was renamed "Polk Public Museum in 1978, and in 1985 became known as the "Polk Museum of Art."

Materials in this collection are organized into two series as follows:

Linear Feet: .75