DUNEDIN, Fla. — Beatlemania brought Penny Lane to Dunedin.

What You Need To Know

  • Florida on a Tankful visits the Penny Lane Beatles Museum
  • It's located at 730 Broadway, second floor, in Dunedin
  • Hours are Thursday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.; admission is free

We’re talking about the Penny Lane Beatles Museum. And bringing it all to visitors for free is Curator and Docent Harlan Brown.

Brown is a musician — a drummer — so prepare for him to know how many drummers the Beatles worked with until Ringo Starr came along.

“I thought I knew a lot about the Beatles when I started to work here,” said Brown.

He was mistaken.

Visitors love talking about all things Beatles and how their lives touched — if only for a few moments.

That’s about how long a fringe jacket was with its original owner, John Lennon.

“He used to catch in the door of his car, probably the Rolls Royce,” Brown said, smiling.

So, he left it with family. Most people ask to not only touch it, but wear it as well.

Same goes for John’s Lennon’s long johns.

Lennon left them in Denmark with wife Yoko Ono’s ex.

Now you may smell moth balls when standing here, but it’s not John’s drawers. It’s Beatles merch — everyone wanted a piece of Beatlemania.

There are moth balls with The Beatles on them.

“People used them to sell everything, even though they weren’t affiliated with the Beatles organization in many ways,” said Brown.

It’s all part of our cultural zeitgeist.

And Harlan Brown is glad to help people remember.

“And that’s really what the museum is all about is keeping the idea of the Beatles,” said Brown. “And it’s about having fun in it and being entertained by how really amazing they were.”

Look for the Museum to move to Ybor City in the Fall of 2025 and expand with a few more thousand square feet.