The city’s cultural reputation starts with the Naples Museum of Art and Philharmonic Center for the Arts complex, where you’ll find world-class sculptures, paintings, and performance art presentations.
The Naples Players performs downtown at Sugden Community Theatre. In the same neighborhood, the vonLeibig Art Center mounts special exhibits.
Garden-lovers find three incredible resources – the Naples Botanical Garden, which just completed a major expansion; Norris Gardens at historic Palm Cottage; and the historic garden at the Naples Zoo, where animal shows and a boat ride around an island of primates entertain families.
Also for families, the Children’s Museum of Naples (C’MON) will open soon, plus there’s King Richard’s Family Fun Park, Sun-n-Fun Lagoon water park, skate parks, the aviary and wildlife rehabilitation facilities at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida Nature Center. and hands-on exhibits and trails at Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.