{"id":277032,"date":"2026-05-19T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277032\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:25:10","slug":"rough-riders-bring-history-to-life-at-the-night-at-the-museum-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277032\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Riders Bring History To Life At The \u2018Night At The Museum\u2019 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Guests are invited to visit the Tampa Rough Riders Teddy Roosevelt Museum on Friday, June 5, for an evening of live history, performances and a community screening of \u2018Night at the Museum.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Tampa Rough Riders will bring history to life on Friday, June 5, during its Night at the Rough Riders Museum, a community event blending education, live performance and a touch of Hollywood. <\/p>\n

The 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment \u2013 Rough Riders Inc. was formed for the purpose of creating and perpetuating a living memorial to the unique accomplishment of President Theodore Roosevelt and the members of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment known as \u2018the Rough Riders.\u2019 The Tampa Rough Riders are a Florida nonprofit corporation and a Federal 501(c)(3) charity. Since 1978 the Regiment has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars both financially and in volunteer hours. Whether providing material goods or manpower, Rough Riders live to get up close and personal with the community where they live and work. <\/p>\n

Billy Hogan, volunteer curator for the Rough Riders Museum and lead organizer for the event, said it\u2019s an evening you won\u2019t want to miss. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rough Riders\u2019 Teddy Roosevelt Museum is a series of 10 exhibits chronologically arranged in our hall,\u201d said Hogan. \u201cWe will have docents in period attire at the exhibits explaining from the Ten Years\u2019 War in Cuba (1868-78) through the end of the Spanish-American War and about our present-day organization.\u201d <\/p>\n

This year marks the second time the Rough Riders have hosted the event. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe accomplished this for the first time in June 2022 in what we then called History Week, the period of time in June corresponding to when the original Rough Riders were in Tampa in 1898,\u201d Hogan said. <\/p>\n

Doors open at 5 p.m., and visitors will be guided through the museum before entering a food and beverage area. Hogan said the evening\u2019s most distinctive feature will be historical reenactors. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe most unique part of this event will be actors impersonating Teddy and Edith Roosevelt,\u201d said Hogan. \u201cThey will conduct their performance about 6:20 p.m., and they will be followed by book author Mark Barry. At 7 p.m., we will play the movie Night at the Museum with Ben Stiller and Robin Williams. The Roosevelt actors are making their first appearance at one of our events, and we are excited to hear their recreations of Teddy and Edith.\u201d <\/p>\n

Organizers hope to draw at least 150 attendees. The entry fee for the event is $5 or a new teddy bear \u2014 12 inches or larger. <\/p>\n

Hogan emphasized the Rough Riders\u2019 long-standing charitable mission. <\/p>\n

\u201cEach year the Rough Riders collect, sort and store thousands of teddy bears for our teddy bear program,\u201d he said, noting that the organization donates bears to hospitals, nursing homes, foster programs and other community partners. \u201cWe also donate about $50,000 annually through scholarships and other charitable donations to nonprofit causes.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Teddy Roosevelt Museum was recently named a Blue Star Museum \u2014 one of five in Tampa \u2014 and offers free admission to active-duty military families. The 2026\u202fprogram\u202fruns through Labor Day, Monday, September 7. <\/p>\n

The Rough Riders Night at the Museum event runs from 5-10 p.m. at 601 N. 19th St. in Tampa. For more information and registration, visit www.tamparoughriders.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guests are invited to visit the Tampa Rough Riders Teddy Roosevelt Museum on Friday, June 5, for an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-277032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}