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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L2834popaulat
Oct 17, 2025
A must do tour! - Victor was one of our favorite tour guides with the best tour. He stayed in character the whole time. The tour is a must do in Saint Augustine. He will be doing it again.
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Lynnes223
Oct 15, 2025
Fun tour - Interesting and funny tour! We loved it. Molly was the tour guide and she was hilarious. Definitely recommend this tour.
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Dawn
Sep 24, 2025
Lots of fun and informational! - Great tour with ‘in character’ shop keeper telling us all about the various products in the store. Ruby was very knowledgeable, kept it entertaining and fast paced. We’ll bring visitors back to this attraction.
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Dizzyb23
Sep 23, 2025
Worth the time to do this tour - Amazing and funny tour of the Store. I loved the pharmaceutical cabinets and our tour guide remained in character the whole time. She was highly entertaining. Seeing the history of every day household items was a useful reminder of how comfortable we are these days. I can highly recommend this tour
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B9973nfbethw
Sep 20, 2025
Excellent Oldest Store Museum Tour - As our final tour on our visit to St. Augustine, we made sure to experience the oldest Store museum tour. "Orville" was our tour director and acting proprietor of the museum. He was so authentic and very knowledgeable. The. museum itself surprised us with the immense collection of artifacts of the past. Orville had stories for everything and quite literally brought us back to its time period. Huge kudos to to Orville for this excellent tour.
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702stasiak
Sep 9, 2025
Oldest museum tour -a great tour we hadn't exoected - We really enjoyed this tour. The tour guide was excellent, both informative and entertaining. He did a great job staying on track if/when guests interrupted. He handled questions from kids well too.
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D828
Sep 1, 2025
Fun, lively experience of a General Store & Inventions of the late 1800s & early 1990s - Amazing tour of large General Store with many items that may have been sold around the beginning of the last century. Our tur guide Molly was great in acting as a worker in the store trying to sell us various products and showing us all of the items` features with live demonstrations of several of them. Much more fun & enjoyable than you might think. And the Old Jail is next door so you can do both without a significant walk to enjoy both. Would do again.
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484danif
Aug 31, 2025
Fun! - The tour was fun and informative with lots of unknown facts about the products available in the early 1900’s. Orville was charming and engaging while staying in character during the whole ~40 minute tour.
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Elia
Aug 25, 2025
A great point if you have little time in St. Augustine - A great look at the past and history of American families in the late nineteenth century. Very nice and passionate guide.
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Sally_s
Oct 7, 2025
Old store stuff - Guide was really really good and made it fun, but museum is a little boring and not really worth the time.
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up to 9 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).