Opening Hours
Tue - Sat: 10am - 4pm

Adults $8 | Ages (11-17) $5

Kids (10 & Under) FREE

Heritage Day 2025

Saturday, April 5, 2025

9am - 3pm

Location:

120 Sams Avenue & Emory Bennett Park

Free Event

Thank you to our Event Sponsors

History Harvest

Bring your cherished Photos, Newspaper Articles, Family Letters or even small objects, and have them digitized for free with our first History Harvest event at Heritage Day 2025.  You will take your items home that day along with a thumb drive of the digital images free of charge.  
These items don’t have to be paper in nature, a portable 3D imaging unit will be available to create digital scans of small objects related to family history as well.
 
Do you have a story to share about your family’s past here in Florida?  Sign up to capture an oral history in our small studio space as part of the History Harvest.  Those interested in participating are encouraged to bring small family items that they can show while sharing their families story on video, in an Antiques Roadshow type oral history capture.
 
Please fill out the applicable form below, print the screen to save a copy of your completed form to bring with you that day, and then submit the form.
Individual Release form for those wanting to digitize photos, paper items or small 3D scannable items.
Interviewee Release Form for those wanting to share oral history interviews.

In the Museum

Free 20 minute guided tours of the Museum Gallery

Join our Museum Docents for a 20-30 minute guided tour of the New Smyrna Museum of History and learn about the engaging history of Southeast Volusia County.

Guided Museum Tours: 9:30 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm

Free Presentations

Daniel Tommy

Traditional techniques to create dug-out canoes. Tommie grew up in his Miccosukee grandparents’ camp in what is now the Everglades National Park.  Today he travels the Southeast US sharing Native American traditions and perspectives along with the traditional techniques for creating canoes that have been passed down through the generations.

The St. Augustine Royal Family

The Royal Family of St. Augustine is a fully costumed first person portrayal group with 60 years of history portraying the Spanish royal family that was in power at the time the Castillo de San Marcos was built in St. Augustine. The fort played an important role in Florida's early years, providing security and shelter to the residents of St. Augustine,  and serving as a place of refuge for the residents along Florida's Northeast coast during Florida's early years.

Mark Adams

Local park ranger Mark Adams will share the history of Bulow Plantation Ruins, and its role in the defense of New Smyrna, Dunlawton and surrounding areas during the Seminole War in 1836. Adams will bring models of the ruins and share some of what the plantation was like before its destruction. The reasons for the outbreak of conflict, and the compelling story of what happened immediately before its destruction will also be told.

Activities

Exhibits

  • Ann Browning-Masters Minorcan Poetry
  • Civil War Display
  • Danial Tommy Native American Dugout Canoe Demonstration
  • Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Jane Sheldon Chapter
  • Jimmy Lane Surf Academy
  • Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum
  • New Smyrna Beach Fire Department
  • NSB Barracuda Sports and Alumni History
  • Oak Hill Preservation Board & Museum
  • Patriot Preserve LLC Military History
  • Ponce Inlet Lighthouse and Museum
  • Port Orange Railway Society
  • Saints & Sinners Cemetery Project
  • Smyrna Archaeology Research Institute (SARI)
  • St. Photios Greek Shrine of St. Augustine
  • The Minorcan Experience of St. Augustine
  • UCF History Harvest
  • US Coast Guard Ponce Inlet Station
  • Veteran’s Museum and Education Center of Daytona
  • Volusia County Beach Safety
  • Volusia County Mosquito Control
  • Volusia County Sheriff
  • Ximenez-Fatio House Museum of St. Augustine

Kids Area

  • Volusia County Beach Patrol
  • Kids Face Painting

History Harvest

  • Bring in photos, newspaper articles, letters, or even small objects and have them digitally preserved

Our Sponsors

Advent Health

Buddy Davenport State Farm

Chick-Fil-A

City of New Smyrna Beach

Dairy Queen

Hometown News

Mark Rakowski, The Keyes Company

New Smyrna Beach Utilities Commission

New Visions Painting

Riches Mosaic Interface™️

Volusia County

Volusia Echo