Museum Men

Nov 29, 2014

Creative Arts is tasked with one of their biggest builds to date: Help boost attendance at the St. Petersburg Museum of History by creating an all-new exhibit around the museum’s own Egyptian mummy, The Lady of the Nile. The Museum Men’s solution? King Tut.

Dec 6, 2014

Creative Arts is creating a full-scale midget submarine, the WWII German Seehund, for the Tampa Bay History Center. The team will also build a secret door bookcase for the VIP room at Ciro's Speakeasy.

Dec 13, 2014

The Museum of Science and Industry is looking to expand their space race exhibit, and they know just the team to help them do this: Creative Arts. The team agrees to build the iconic Apollo 13 lunar module, the hero craft from the perilous Apollo 13 mission. On top of the pressures of the space race exhibit, Creative Arts has taken on another, more sentimental project: a recreation of the William Wallace sword.

Dec 20, 2014

Creative Arts is building the Bell X1 for the Armed Forces History Museum in Largo, Florida and a Pennsylvania Long Rifle for the Florida Frontiersmen, a local non-profit group that wants to present the firearm as a scholarship award to one of their young members.

Dec 27, 2014

The Creative Arts team has just 17 days to build a full-scale replica of President Abraham Lincoln's Springfield funeral carriage, the same number of days that the city of Springfield had to make the original carriage for Lincoln. The team will also build a knight's suit of armor for a friend who plans to wear it in a Renaissance-era joust.

Jan 3, 2015

Creative Arts has been commissioned by the Tennessee Museum of Aviation–home to one of the best historical aircraft collections in the country–to build the Skycycle X-2, the rocket used by Evel Knievel in his most famous daredevil stunt. The team will also be building President Kennedy’s Resolute Desk for the retired mayor of Tampa.

Jan 10, 2015

Creative Arts has been commissioned by a Tennessee museum to build an exhibit focusing on items of torture from the Spanish Inquisition. The team also takes on a side project–a sidecar for a WW2 Russian motorcycle as part of the Wounded Warrior program.

Jan 24, 2015

Creative Arts builds the Mark 1 tank for the Discovery Park of America, the most game-changing weapon to emerge from World War I. The team also takes on a side project, a telephone booth for a Florida hotel. This historical phone booth will house the hotel's prized possession: an actual 1930's era telephone!

Jan 31, 2015

Creative Arts is building a Byzantine hydraulic throne inspired by King Solomon for the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida. The team will also build a medieval crossbow for a “living historian” and archery enthusiast.

Feb 7, 2015

Creative Arts has been hired to reinvent the grand staircase from the famous Titanic; They'll be creating it for the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.