Oldest Store Museum: St. Augustine Experience

Step back in time at St. Augustine’s Oldest Store Museum Experience. Meet the proprietor and witness demonstrations of turn-of-the-century inventions. Physical distancing in place.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • The Oldest Store Museum - Local actors and storytellers make this tour with the items and inventions from the turn-of-the-century come to life! By providing history and humor all rolled into one delightful experience, guests will be captivated to learn more about turn-of-the-century life within the ancient city.
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What's Included
  • Admission
What's Not Included
  • Transportation to/from attraction
  • Food and drinks
  • Oldest Store Museum Experience is closed on Christmas Day.
Additional Information

Get acquainted with the owner, Mr. C.F. Hamblen and observe the amiable staff, meat seller and patent medicine merchant showcase the most recent innovations for turn of the century lifestyle at St. Augustine’s most antique shop-turned-museum Experience.
Provisions for maintaining social distance are implemented. Wearing of masks is optional yet…

Location
The Oldest Store Museum
167 San Marco Ave,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Y5223avelizabethh
Jul 29, 2025
Good Museum with Great Guides! - We did this while exploring the beautiful town. You can do both the Old Jail and the Oldest Store Museum in about an hour together if you wanted to. At the Oldest Store, we had Renee as our guide and she was so wonderful! She knew more about St. Augustine too, after the tour we asked questions, she was so personable and friendly. It was very nice to see someone love their job like she did. Great job!
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Wsmelser
May 29, 2025
Northwest Visitors to Oldest Store Museum, thank you Orville!!! - Northwest visitors to St Augustine. Enjoyed our visit to the Oldest Store Museum! Thank you Orville for your wonderful tour of the old store. Thank you so much BILL S...Keizer, OR
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Christienrandy
May 28, 2025
Step Back In Time - We got there just in time for the last tour of the day. So much fun. I love how the guide is in character for the time. He was very knowledgeable about everything in the store and how it all works. The whole tour was so interesting and entertaining. We would definitely do it again! Our sweet guide was from our hometown. He was fantastic! .
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Amyjy6746ur
May 23, 2025
Step Back in Time in the Oldest Store - Our guide, Molly, was delightful. She presented all of the information in a very humorous way. We all learned so much and enjoyed looking at inventions from days gone by.
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Vacationerguy
May 22, 2025
A Surprise Hit - This was one of the surprise hits of my trip. The experience was a lot of fun, with a very humorous 'salesman' leading us through the store and warehouse. It was fun to see the historic pieces as they were, but an added bonus to see demonstrations of how many of them actually work. The presentation of the experience made something that had the potential to be dull become extremely engaging and enjoyable. I would highly recommend this experience as one of the best in St. Augustine.
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Ksmax
Mar 23, 2025
A must do! - This was a fantastic tour! I was skeptical on how fun a tour of a general store could be, but we had a wonderful time. Our guide was informative, funny, and stayed in character the whole time. Our family, which included a 10 year old, was engaged the whole time. Our son was even chosen to be part of the tour a few times and that was a fun perk for us. I highly recommend doing this tour!
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Bubby2me
Mar 20, 2025
Very Fun Experience - My sister and I went in March and we absolutely enjoyed this tour! It was really engaging and informative. You get to see a lot of cool stuff - and some of it still works! It was very interactive. Ruby was our "shopkeeper" and she was amazing!!!!
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U7731tcmigueld
Mar 10, 2025
Orville - This was a very interesting experience specifically because Mr. Orville was an outstanding tour guide. I would highly recommend it.
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Larryhq5946nj
Feb 27, 2025
Step back in time to 1908 for an unforgettable mock shopping experience - This museum allows you to step back in time to see the wide array of products available to the shopper in the first decade of the 1900's. There's an incredible assortment of what were considered labor-saving devices for American households at a time when the industrial revolution was producing exciting new products. You'll see the some of the earliest washing machines, sewing machines, typewriters, bicycles, as well as the earliest machines for grinding coffee beans, making milkshakes, separating cream from milk or producing butter from cream, etc. What made the tour especially entertaining as well as fascinating was the animated and humorous shopkeeper, Orville. His imitation of the sales pitches by shopkeepers and salesmen over a century ago were delightful as well as informative. There are so many artifacts to see in the museum that you should definitely plan to spend a full hour here.
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Andrea
Jun 20, 2025
Good for families, not very fun for solo history buffs. - Im gonna be honest this was not the best. I was the only one on the tour and instead of waiting for more people to show up the poor tourguide went for it anyway. And though they did their best and stuck to the script, it was probably the most awkward and painful 20 minutes of my life. I do want to note here though that it was absolutely not the tourguide's fault they were just doing their job! The tour itself was super kitchy and probably would've been fine for families with kids but was not suited for a solo traveler history buff. Sorry guys but I regret doing this one.
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From $16
up to 9 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).