{"id":320980,"date":"2026-06-26T19:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320980\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:13:14","slug":"local-museum-featured-in-america-250-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/320980\/","title":{"rendered":"Local museum featured in America 250 Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 A museum that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/region-st-lucie-county\/fort-pierce\/florida-highwaymen-museum-opens-in-fort-pierce-honoring-26-african-american-artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">opened this year<\/a> in Fort Pierce, which celebrates one of America&#8217;s most iconic art movements, is part of the festivities celebrating the country&#8217;s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The city announced on its Facebook page this week that the Florida Highwaymen Museum is a featured stop on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/america250.org\/event\/the-great-american-road-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">America 250 Road Trip.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Men Museum opens in Fort Pierce, honoring 26 African American artists<\/p>\n<p>The museum celebrates 26 Black artists who began painting in the 1950s, creating bold, colorful landscapes of Florida&#8217;s untouched beauty and selling them along the roadside when segregation kept them out of traditional galleries. <\/p>\n<p>Located at 1234 Avenue D, the museum is the nation&#8217;s only one with exhibitions that include paintings from each of the 26 renowned Highwaymen artists.<\/p>\n<p>Hours of Operation:<\/p>\n<p>Summer (June 16 \u2013 July 31)Saturday and Sunday: noon \u2013 4 p.m.Fall\/Spring (Sept. 1 \u2013 June 15) hours of operation will be expanded<\/p>\n<p>The museum will be closed in August and reopen in September, featuring a new exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 A museum that opened this year in Fort Pierce, which celebrates one of America&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[52302,28,3886,171,173,172,1402],"class_list":["post-320980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-america-250","tag-florida","tag-fort-pierce","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st-lucie-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320980","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=320980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}