The Living Museum: A Trip Through Pensacola's History, Presented by Fiesta Pensacola

Living Museum: A Trip through Pensacola’s History.

This interactive experience will feature diverse characters from Pensacola’s storied history, beginning in 1559 with the discovery of Pensacola by Don Tristan de Luna and continuing through today. Actors will dress in culturally appropriate and period accurate costume to act out scenes from our past, answering questions from visitors and giving them an insight into our shared history, making the stories come alive like never before.

Last year, the characters from Pensacola’s past included Martin Weissman “Trader Jon”, Don Tristan de Luna, Spanish Settlers, Mariana Bonifay, Dr. Robert Bell Hargis, Genevieve Ham, Helen Hunt West, Andrew Jackson and Vince Whibbs, Sr.

This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than the inaugural year!

This event is unique in that it will serve as a genuine timeline of Pensacola’s history, not only focusing on the founding of Pensacola or the majority groups of our past but going further into history and including the minority groups and events that are important but maybe not traditionally covered in the history books.

The best part of this event is that the actors will use the artifacts in the Pensacola Museum of History as parts of the show, making the actual relics into props that actors can reference.