Air Force Space & Missile Museum

Focuses primarily on the early unmanned space program, with artifacts from the ’50s and ’60s as well as a rocket garden. The only way to visit the museum is through "Cape Canaveral Then and Now" bus tours from Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

American Police Hall of Fame and Museum

50,000-square-foot facility allows visitors to sit in an electric chair, lie under a guillotine, sit on a police motorcycle, shoot an actual police weapon and fly 130 mph in a helicopter. The facility also has a state-of-the-art indoor shooting center

Astronaut Hall of Fame

World’s largest collection of personal astronaut memorabilia. Dedicated to Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs. Also features historic spacecraft and simulator rides.

Brevard Museum of Art and Science

The county’s only fine arts museum has five galleries where rotating exhibitions by international, national and regional artists are displayed. The museum is also host to cultural lecture series, a book club, jazz performances, children’s activities and art classes. The Ruth Cote Clemente Science Center has colorful, hands-on exhibits for children. The Renee Foosaner Education Center offers studio classes.

Brevard Museum of History and Science

Collecting museum also brings in traveling shows with accompanying text panels. On permanent display are a Florida timeline, a nature center with 22 acres of trails and a recreation of the famous Windover Dig, which unearthed 7,000-year-old remains of prehistoric man.

Brevard Veterans Memorial Museum

Education Museum houses artifacts from all wars in which the United States has fought, from swords and cannon balls to World War II rationing stamps and V-mail and much more. Exhibits are rotated to provide new displays.

East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame Museum

Present history of surfing through old surfboards, magazines and photos, surf music, collections of old items related to surfing and exhibits about national surf champions Kelly Slater, the late Bruce Valuzzi and inductees into the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame. 

The Enchanted Forest

You will descend 15 to 20 feet from the desert-like Scrub on the ancient Atlantic Coastal Ridge into the shadowy, moist Mesic Hammock with its huge canopy. The interrelationship of elevation, soil, water, nutrients, and botany becomes evident.

Liberty Bell Memorial Museum
1601 Oak St., Melbourne 
(321) 727-1776 

Run by Honor America. Contains artifacts and facsimiles from important moments in U.S. history, such as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and a full-size replica of the Liberty Bell. Permanent exhibits range from Revolutionary War period to Operation Iraq. 

 
U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum
Searstown Mall, 3550 S. Washington Ave., Titusville 
(321) 264-0434

Nonprofit museum established by space workers in December 2001. On display are rare photos, space patches, pins, space hardware, flight suits, shuttle tiles, bronzed handprints of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts, and numerous scale models of aerospace vehicles and facilities. Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: free

 
Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum
6600 Tico Road, Titusville 
(321) 268-1941

The Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum has exhibits, displays, artifacts and vintage warbirds from WW1 through the present. A great opportunity to see a unique collection of venerable aircraft and learn abut the legacy of the pilots that flew them. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7 days a week.