The exhibit “Imagining La Florida,” open through Feb. 23 in the Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, traces the colonization of Florida from the arrival of Ponce de Leon through the founding of St. Augustine. It is organized and funded by the Spanish cultural agency Acción Cultural Española.

“The exhibit, in the museum’s temporary exhibits gallery, tells the story of Spanish settlement in four parts: The assembling of colonists in Spain; the voyages of Spanish explorers to the New World; the contact/conflict/cooperation among Europeans, Native Americans and African Americans – and the Fountain of Youth, the totally fictional myth that supposedly motivated Ponce de Leon to explore Florida,” tallahassee.com reports. Read the complete story here.