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The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
URL: http://www.shellmuseum.org

Description:
This museum in Sanibel, Florida, features exhibits about mollusks from around the world. "Exhibits are devoted to shells in art and history, shell habitat, rare specimens, fossil shells, common Southwest Florida shells, and more." Its website provides images of dozens of Florida shells, a mollusk collection database, and images of exhibits (such as of sailors' Valentines). Also includes tables of contents for its magazine The Nautilus back to the 1880s.

Publisher:
The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum

Extra Keywords
malacological

LII Database Information:
Record 21979 created by Maria Brandt on 06/26/2006
Last modification on 06/27/2006
Published: 06/29/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21979