Florida Surf Museum — Attraction in Cocoa Beach

This is not your typical museum but more like an exhibit however we knew this based on the reviews from here. I'm not a HUGE surfer kind of person but I do enjoy reading and learning about stuff. This is located inside the Ron Jon Rental shop, the staff was kind and asked right away if we needed help and pointed us to the direction of the museum. There are cool historic surf boards and pics of historical surfers and pictures. Again, I don't follow these people's careers but it was really nice to read how young these guys and girls were and how history was made in local cocoa Beach and seeing how small the surf boards were. Overall we had a great time reading through history, learning about them and letting the Florida thunderstorms pass. It was all good. There's probably more that can be done there to make it better but overall for it being free and by donation only,...

NEW NAME: Florida Surf Museum (formerly the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum)

The Museum is located at the Ron Jon Surf Shop watersports building. This space provides for public exhibits, lectures, and programs, and a headquarters for digital archiving and an oral history project. The museum actively engages the community in surfing culture through exhibits and educational events, as well as community outreach programs for all ages. It highlights surfing history and culture from Cocoa Beach, nationally and internationally, and from differing perspectives, including exhibits that feature the history and lore that defines Cocoa Beach as one of the premier surf towns...

In 1970, a Good Day in Sebastion Inlet was 4 to 7 feet from a North Swell. Somehow driving from South Miami Beach was still worth the drive. When Jeff Crawfowford was in the Water (Top 5 Suurfer at Pipeline, HA. It made it all come together. But today, in this year 2024. The Atlantic Ocean seems different from then, in a word "Flat"! Where are the waves? In 2019 I relocated here in Cocoa Beach from Oceanside, California. To be honest, I am wishing to Surf the Harbor Beach, in North San Diego, CA....