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The Rollins Museum of Art (RMA) features rotating exhibitions, ongoing programs, and an extensive permanent collection that spans centuries, from examples of ancient art and artifacts to contemporary art. Open to the public year-round, its holdings include the only European Old Master paintings in the Orlando area, a sizeable American art collection, and a forward-thinking contemporary collection

on view both at the museum and The Alfond Inn at Rollins. Located a few blocks from campus, The Alfond Inn is a visionary philanthropic boutique hotel whose proceeds help fund student scholarships. In 1981, the museum became one of Florida’s first college museums to be accredited by the American Association of Museums (currently the American Alliance of Museums) and continues in 2022 as one of only four AAM-accredited museums in greater Orlando. Located on the historic Rollins College campus, the museum offers a high-quality cultural experience in picturesque Winter Park. In addition, part of the museum's world-class collection of contemporary art is always on view at The Alfond Inn, located a few blocks away from campus. Programming is funded in part by Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program. Additional support comes from members of the Director's Circle and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, The Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Lectures sponsored in part by Rollins College and the Gary Libby Foundation. Support for RMA's educational programming comes from the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation. Free admission continues in 2022 courtesy of RMA Members. The Rollins Museum of Art is generously funded, in part, by Rollins College. El Rollins Museum of Art (RMA) presenta exhibiciones, programas, y una amplia colección que abarca varios siglos de arte, con ejemplos tanto de la antigüedad como de arte contemporáneo. El museo está abierto al público durante todo el año, y posee las únicas obras de grandes maestros europeos en el área de Orlando, una considerable colección de arte americano y una innovadora colección de arte contemporáneo disponible tanto en el RMA como en el Alfond Inn de Rollins. Ubicado a escasos minutos del campus, el Alfond Inn es un visionario y filantrópico hotel, cuyos ingresos ayudan a financiar becas para estudiantes. En 1981, el museo se convirtió en el primer museo universitario de Florida en ser acreditado por la American Association of Museums (hoy en día conocida como American Alliance of Museums) y continúa siendo en 2022 uno de los tan solo cuatro museos reconocidos por la AAM en la zona metropolitana de Orlando. Ubicado en el histórico campus de Rollins College, el museo ofrece una experiencia cultural de gran calidad en la pintoresca ciudad de Winter Park.

$Arte y Café | 28 de enero | January 28 | 6pm 🖼️ Classical Refractions: The Legacy of Antiquity in Visual Culture. Acompa...$

01/24/2025

Arte y Café | 28 de enero | January 28 | 6pm
🖼️ Classical Refractions: The Legacy of Antiquity in Visual Culture. Acompaña a la Dra. Gisela Carbonell, Directora Interina y Curadora del Rollins Museum of Art, para visitas guiadas en español. Se proveerá café y pastelillitos cortesía de , auspiciador de Arte y Café con la Curadora. No es necesario registrarse.

Join Dr. Gisela Carbonell, Interim Director and RMA Curator, for a tour in Spanish. Coffee and pastries will be served by our program sponsor, Cafe Don Juan.

Arte y Café con la Curadora

28 de enero | January 28 | 6pm Classical Refractions: The Legacy of Antiquity in Visual Culture

18 de febrero | February 18 | 6pm ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

18 de marzo | March 18 | 6pm Symbolic Languages: Children’s Understandings of the Collection

01/23/2025

Weekend tours begin this Saturday for Rollins Museum of Art’s ❄️Winter Season. Join RMA docents at 1pm & 3pm to explore highlights from five thought-provoking exhibitions. Bring family and friends. Museum tours and admission are

01/17/2025

NEW! 🎉You can now explore Rollins Museum of Art on the free arts and culture app! 📲Download our free digital guide on your phone or tablet for access to audio guides, tours and more!

Our digital guide features:

✅Highlights tours of Rollins Museum of Art and art at The Alfond Inn
✅Our Outdoor Sculpture Tour
✅Access to 360 degree views of past exhibitions
✅Multilingual capabilities available through Google Translate.
✅Best-in-class accessibility including screen reader support, zoom, font size adjustment, transcripts, subtitles, alt-text, and more

Learn more and download the app at the 🔗in our bio.

01/15/2025

A sneak peek at 🖼️ Symbolic Languages: Children’s Understandings of the Collection, Rollins Museum of Art’s first exhibition co-curated by children!

🗓️Opening January 18, this interactive exhibition is presented in partnership with the Rollins College Hume House Child Development and Student Research Center (CDC), and collaboratively curated by RMA’s Associate Curator of Education David Matteson, the CDC’s Executive Director Dr. Alice Davidson and Director Diane Terorde-Doyle, and 30 preschool children ages 2-5.

Informed by the Reggio Emilia principle that children use “one hundred languages” to construct and communicate their understanding of the world, Symbolic Languages features various interpretive approaches that demonstrate how the child curators appreciated and were inspired by works from the collection, including those by 🎨 Elizabeth Catlett, Chuck Close, Gregory Gillespie, and David Stern.

In addition to showcasing the children’s responses, the exhibition is the culmination of a research study by the CDC’s leadership, whose findings are published in a freely available, 📖 exhibition booklet that also includes an essay chronicling the CDC’s fifty-year history.

01/13/2025

Missing our Fall Season of exhibitions? Great news! You can use any device to take a 360 degree virtual tour of all six exhibitions. Find deeper engagement by reading 📄the extended labels and listening to 🎧audio guides from the comfort of your🏠 home. You can even use VR goggles! 🔗 in bio.

Visit us in person this weekend as we open a new season of thought-provoking exhibitions. 🤑Admission is always free.

01/07/2025

NEW! Join us THIS SUNDAY January 12 at 1pm for
🖼️ Second Sundays: Tours at
No fee or registration required. 👇🏾

(January 12-April 13 @ 1pm)
On the Second Sunday of each month join Rollins Museum of Art docents in the lobby of 🏨 The Alfond Inn for a guided tour of selections from The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art. No registration or fee required.

Mark your calendar for these 1pm tours:

🗓️ Jan 12

🗓️ Feb 9

🗓️ March 9

🗓️ April 13

01/06/2025

Don’t fret, while we’re 🚧 closed to install our ❄️Winter Season of exhibitions you can still engage with Rollins Museum of Art:

✅ Visit anytime with 100+ works on view
✅ Take our Walking Sculpture Tour
✅ Explore 360 degree virtual views of past exhibitions
✅ Subscribe to our YouTube channel to enjoy lectures, artist talks and family art making activities
✅ View the Collection page on our website

And more! Join us January 18 at 12pm for the opening of our Winter Season. See you soon!

01/03/2025

Don’t miss these six thought-provoking exhibitions, interactive elements, and more. Bring the whole family, admission is free.

👀 FINAL DAYS:
Friday 10am-4pm
Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 5pm

🖼️ EXHIBITIONS: https://www.rollins.edu/rma/exhibitions/index.html

🆕 What’s New: Recent Acquisitions

💐The Fantastical Mundane: Selections from the Grasset-Linares Collection

📚Critical Reading: Book Arts in Dialogue with the Collection

🏞️ Art Encounters: Rethinking My Relationship to the Land

👤 Beyond the Surface: Capturing Meaning Through Portraiture

Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786-1962)

01/02/2025

Look closer at ✨Head of a Youth and Profile of a King✨ in 🖼️ Beyond the Surface: Capturing Meaning Through Portraiture on view through January 5. This pair of paintings by an unknown Italian artist ca. 1477-1515 comes from a dismantled series of 44 panels that once decorated the ceiling and upper walls of a small room in the palace of San Martino Gusnago in northern Italy.

With an identical architectural background and lighting, these paintings exemplify the most common portrait format in Italy during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth century: the three-quarter view and the profile view.

Hurry! Enjoy FREE ADMISSION to view all SEVEN EXHIBITIONS in our Fall Season through January 5.

12/26/2024

What do you see? At first glance, many visitors have mistaken ✨Long Lake, WA 2✨ as an abstract painterly image. In fact, this is a picturesque 📷photograph developed by Matthew Brandt in the polluted water of Washington's Long Lake. Chemicals in the water cause the colorful distortions.

Through January 5, view this work in 🌍 Art Encounters: Rethinking My Relationship to the Land. This exhibition draws upon the knowledge and perspectives of Rollins College faculty like Rollins Professor of Environmental Studies 🌱 Dr. Lee Lines to highlight the value of a liberal arts education for addressing human-driven climate change.

Listen now at our link in bio to Dr. Lines describe why addressing the 🍃 climate crisis will require "a fundamental reimagining of nearly everything we do with fossil fuels."

Matthew Brandt, (American, b. 1982), Long Lake, WA 2, 2012, C-print soaked in Long Lake water , 30 in. x 38 1/2 in. , From the series "Lakes and Reservoirs." Museum purchase by the Cornell Contemporaries, 2013.36 © Matthew Brandt

12/25/2024

View ✨ Party During the Christmas Season (La parranda)✨ by Rafael Ríos Rey through January 5 in 🇵🇷 Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786–1962) at Rollins Museum of Art. Admission is free December 27-29 & January 2-5.

✨La parranda✨ de Rafael Ríos Rey estará expuesta hasta el 5 de enero en la exhibición Nostalgia por mi Isla: Pintura Puertorriqueña del Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786-1962) en el Rollins Museum of Art. La entrada es gratis.

Want to view now? Take a 360 degree virtual tour of our current exhibitions at the 🔗 in our bio.
¿Quieres verla ahora? Puedes hacer el recorrido virtual de 360 grados de nuestras exhibiciones actuales a través del enlace en nuestro bio.

Rafael Ríos Rey
Party During the Christmas Season (La parranda) 1941
Oil on canvas / óleo sobre lienzo 26 1/4 x 19 1/8 in (66.7 x 48.6cm) 98.2242
Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. Gift of Luis A. Ferré.

12/23/2024

Visit the 🖼️ What’s New: Recent Acquisitions exhibition through January 5 at Rollins Museum of Art to engage with ✨Adrenocortical Cancer (Diabetes Complication), DNA Microarray Analysis✨ by artist Erica Lord. Referencing the computer-generated patterns drawn from DNA analysis, Erica Lord’s colorful loom-weaving comments on health disparities experienced among Native populations. 👇🏾

Born in Nenana, Alaska, to a Finnish American mother and an Athabascan/Iñupiat father, Lord is an interdisciplinary artist whose mixed heritage allows her to explore her identity and its overlapping cultural borders. Informed by her background, Lord’s artwork showcases themes of displacement, cultural limbo, and health inequities.

This work takes the form of a customary burden strap – a tool used by indigenous women to carry heavy objects or children —to represent the emotional weight of illness. The pattern references adrenocortical cancer, which has been linked to diabetes; one of the many illnesses that disproportionately affect this community. From her series The Codes We Carry, Lord’s weaving engages with traditional Native American beadwork practices to reflect the invisible burdens this population carries.

Admission is free December 27-29 & January 2-5

Adrenocortical Cancer (Diabetes Complication), Dna Microarray Analysis, 2021, Beads and string, by Erica Lord, The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art. Gift of Barbara ‘68 And Theodore ‘68 Alfond. Photo by Addison Doty

12/19/2024

Spend time together over the holidays with FREE ADMISSION to Rollins Museum of Art. Our 🍁Fall Season only lasts until January 5. Check out our holiday hours and enjoy all 7 exhibitions on your own or with someone you love.

December 24-26
Closed

December 27
10am-4pm

December 28 & 29
12pm-5pm

December 30-January 1
Closed

January 2 & 3
10am-4pm

January 4 & 5
12pm-5pm

12/18/2024

Look closer at ✨A Wooded Landscape with Peasants, A Pool Nearby and a Town in the Distance✨ on view through January 5 in The 🖼️ Fantastical Mundane: Selections from the Grasset-Linares Collection at Rollins Museum of Art. 🎧Listen to the audio guide for even deeper engagement. https://rma.stqry.app/tour/26878?utm_campaign=qr

A prolific painter of small landscapes and bouquets, 🎨 Abraham Govaerts plays with shading and perspective to romanticize rural landscapes of the lower Netherlands, now Belgium. The meticulous rendering of the branches and leaves, the light shimmering on the pond, and the clothing of the figures attest to the painter’s skill and importance of visual detail in Dutch Baroque art.

12/13/2024

Look closer at ✨Whiskey Point, East Kingston✨ by Andrew Moore on view in 🖼️ Art Encounters: Rethinking My Relationship to the Land. 👉🏾 Swipe for a full view. In this exhibition, Rollins College faculty share how their research and teaching address the global challenge of 🌎 climate change. 👇🏾

In this 📷 photograph, artist Andrew Moore depicts a site along the Hudson River that has “renatured” after facing environmental degradation caused by industrial development in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Like artist Andrew Moore, Rollins Professor of Social Entrepreneurship Dr. Walter Mswaka strives for a new generational outlook on the historic consequences of business upon nature. “My teaching focuses on producing a new generation of students who place the wellbeing of the world and societies at the core of what they do.”

Be sure to view this work in person Tuesday - Sunday with free admission to Rollins Museum of Art, and listen to the audio guide (🔗in bio) for more from Dr. Msawka.

12/10/2024

Love to get lost in a good book? We’ve got an entire gallery filled with 📚 Critical Reading: Book Arts in Dialogue with the Collection complete with books, paintings, sculptures, and film. 👀 Hurry! This exhibition closes January 5. Admission is free.

12/07/2024

Making creative choices in today’s 🎨 Family Studio. Drawing inspiration from 🖼️ The Fantastical Mundane: Selections from the Grasset-Linares Collection (on view through January 5), families explore enhanced realism then engage with photorealism to create 🫧 bubble drawings.

❄️Winter Season dates announced soon! Be sure to follow us for details on registering for our next 🎨 Family Studio.

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Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

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Teamwork #bts 🛠️ Installing exhibitions takes careful planning and precision from concept to curation. Explore these five thought-provoking exhibitions with FREE ADMISSION to our entire ❄️Winter Season at Rollins Museum of Art. Learn more at the 🔗 in our bio. ✨Symbolic Languages: Children’s Understandings of the Collection✨ is the museum’s first exhibition collaboratively curated with 🗣️children ages 2 to 5 enrolled in the Rollins College Hume House Child Development & Student Research Center laboratory preschool @rollinshumehouse . —————— ✨¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now✨ travels from the Smithsonian American Art Museum @americanart . This exhibition explores the rise of Chicano graphics within early social movements. —————- ✨Classical Refractions: The Legacy of Antiquity in Visual Culture✨ is guest-curated by Dr. Robert Vander Poppen, Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Rollins College and students in ARH 404 Museum Studies Practicum. —————- ✨Art Encounters: Rethinking My Relationship to the Land✨ (featuring additional works installed since the Fall Season exhibition). This exhibition draws upon the knowledge and perspectives of Rollins College faculty to highlight the value of a liberal arts education for addressing human-driven climate change. —————- ✨Beyond the Surface: Capturing Meaning Through Portraiture✨brings together a selection of paintings and sculptures by European and American artists from the 16th to the early 20th century. The grouping shows the evolution of artistic styles and techniques, and the historical significance of physical attributes to convey status, wealth, faith, and power. #rma #rollinsmuseumofart #freemuseum #teachingmuseum #artexhibitions

The first work of our ❄️Winter Season is installed! Featured in 🖼️Classical Refractions: The Legacy of Antiquity in Visual Culture (opening January 18), ✨Tendres Propos✨ by artist 🎨William-Adolphe Bouguereau depicts a scene of delicate beauty, drawn from mid-18th century Neoclassicist principles while speaking to contemporary 19th century romantic ideals. The cupids, mythological symbols of love, whisper sweet nothings (tendres propos) to the young woman. Guest-curated by Dr. Robert Vander Poppen, Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Rollins College and students in ARH 404 Museum Studies Practicum, Classical Refractions explores the ways that artists have engaged with the artistic traditions of Classical Antiquity from the Renaissance to the Contemporary. Explore these works from the Rollins Museum of Art Collection and all five exhibitions in our Winter Season opening January 18. Admission is always free. #classicalrefractions #museumstudies #artexhibition #winterseason #freemuseum #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

Our 🍁 Fall Season is in its final days! Gain insights into works on view from 🧰 art handler Angel Anaya, part of the installation team for ✨Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786–1962)✨ on view through 🗓️ January 5 at Rollins Museum of Art. Angel reminisces about his 🎨 artist grandmother and the natural beauty of the island while also sharing his experience as one of the first people in Florida to view these works in person. Admission is Free! Works highlighted include: Marilú Rodríguez Landscape (Paisaje) 1968 Oil on canvas, 12 x 19 3/4 in (30.5 x 50.2) 63.0431. Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc Bartolomé Mayol Landscape in Jayuya (Paisaje de Jayuya) 1960 Oil on masonite 11 3/16 x 9 3/16 in (30 x 25 cm) 63.0316. Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. José Campeche y Jordán The Vision of Saint Philip Benizi (La visión de San Felipe Benicio) 1786 Oil on wood 35 13/16 x 23 5/8 in (91 x 60 cm) 53.0007 Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. #puertorico #artexhibition #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

Tomorrow is #nationalshortfilmday 🎬 Celebrate by visiting our 📚Critical Reading: Book Arts in Dialogue with the Collection screening room to engage with 📽️ Second-Hand Reading by William Kentridge, on view through January 5. Admission to Rollins Museum of Art is free. 👇🏾 While haunting music by South African artist Neo Muyanga plays in the background, pages from Cassell’s Cyclopedia of Mechanics, originally published at the turn of the twentieth century, flip rapidly animating the series of images Kentridge has drawn. Kentridge’s films, videos, prints, drawings, and set designs generally relate either explicitly or indirectly to his home country of South Africa. His stop-motion films and videos address such weighty themes as time, memory, and colonialism William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955) Second-Hand Reading, 2013 Single channel HD video 7 min. The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art. Gift of Barbara ‘68 and Theodore ‘68 Alfond, 2013.34.142. Image courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. #shortfilm #stopmotionanimation #Williamkentridge #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

Have you recorded your Puerto Rican history? 🗣️Marthaly Irizarry, Special Assistant to Mayor Jerry L. Demings, visited 🇵🇷Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786–1962) then 🎙️ recorded her history in our sound booth. 🎧 Recorded histories will become part of the oral history collection at @historycenterfl Hurry! Visit Rollins Museum of Art December 27-29 and January 2-5 to view this exhibition before it’s gone! 🎧 Listen to recorded histories and 🎙️ record one of your own. ADMISSION IS FREE. #puertorico #puertoricanpride🇵🇷 #nostalgia #nostalgiaformyisland #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

“I wonder, what is her promesa?” @ocpsarts teacher John Ortiz shares his nostalgia for his grandmother Lola, Puerto Rico and ✨The Promise (La promesa)✨ by artist Miguel Pou y Becerra on view through January 5 in Nostalgia for 🖼 My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786–1962). #lapromesa #thepromise #nostalgiaformyisland #artteacher #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

As an RMA student council member, Avryl Colón-Pérez, Rollins College ‘26 (Anthropology Major, Archaeology & Art History Minors) has engaged with many exhibitions at Rollins Museum of Art. As she explores The Shack by Félix Rodríguez Báez, learn why for her ✨Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786–1962)✨”felt like home.” View this exhibition for yourself with Free Admission Tuesday-Sunday through January 5, 2025. #nostalgia #puertorico #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

🛍️Looking for the perfect gift? We’re open Tuesdays until 7pm! Members get 💰💰double discounts during Rollins Museum of Art’s Shop Sale (December 3 - 8)! Shop items by local artists, get unique handmade gifts, books, and more. For the person who has everything, give the gift of Membership on this #givingtuesday #sale #museumshopsale #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

🔊 Arnaldo Oliveras, Vice Chairman of the Board of Visitors at Rollins Museum of Art reminisces about his first encounter with 🖼️ Portrait of María Catalina de Urrutia (Doña María Catalina de Urrutia) at @museoarteponce in Puerto Rico and shared his pride in introducing Central Florida to ✨Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786–1962)✨ View this exhibition for yourself with Free Admission Tuesday-Sunday through January 5, 2025. José Campeche y Jordán, (Puerto Rican, 1751 – 1809), Portrait of María Catalina de Urrutia (Doña María Catalina de Urrutia), 1788, Oil on wood, 15 5/8 x 11 3/8 in., Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc., 88.1681 #museodeartedeponce #rma #josécampeche #rollinsmusuemofart #nostalgiaformyisland

🎧Have you visited the audio booth in 🇵🇷 Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786-1962) at Rollins Museum of Art? Admission is FREE! Engage in 2 ways: ✅Listen to selections from @historycenterfl oral history collection ✨Puerto Ricans in Central Florida: 1940s to 1980s✨ that touch on themes of displacement, new beginnings, longing, and memory. ✅Record your response to the exhibition and become part of the Orange County Regional History Center oral history collection. We are open this week: Tuesday 10am-7pm Wednesday 10am-4pm Saturday & Sunday 12pm-5pm (Closed Thursday & Friday for Thanksgiving) Audio excerpts in this video are from the Puerto Ricans in Central Florida: 1940s to 1980s oral history collection held by @historycenterfl Voices featured - Eva Pagan-Hill - Victor Alvarado - Yvonne Milligan - Roberto Rivera - Reina Rubert #orangecountyregionalhistorycenter #puertoricansincentralflorida #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Such incredible teamwork! View Untitled by artist Richard Long, one of more than 100 works on view at @thealfondinn. ✨Visit Sundays at 1pm for a free tour✨ #thealfondinn #amuseumwithrooms #freesundaytours #rma #rollinsmuseumofart

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Visit our website for details on timed ticket registration, COVID guidelines, hours of operation, and more. All visitors must register online for available tickets prior to arrival at the museum. Free admission continues courtesy of PNC Financial Services Group. https://www.rollins.edu/cornell-fine-arts-museum/visit/

The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College features rotating exhibitions, ongoing programs, and an extensive permanent collection of more than 5,600 objects that spans centuries, from examples of ancient art and artifacts to contemporary art. Open to the public year-round, its holdings include the only European Old Master paintings in the Orlando area, a sizeable American art collection, and a forward-thinking contemporary collection on view both at the Museum and The Alfond Inn at Rollins. Located a few blocks from campus, The Alfond Inn is a visionary philanthropic boutique hotel whose proceeds help fund student scholarships. In 1981, the Museum became Florida’s first college museum to be accredited by the American Association of Museums (currently the American Alliance of Museums) and continues in 2019 as one of only four AAM-accredited museums in greater Orlando.

As a teaching museum, the Museum poses open-ended questions through collection installations and original exhibitions accompanied by scholarly catalogs. Exhibitions connect with the curriculum of Rollins College and its fields of study, offering varying perspectives and serving as catalysts for larger conversations. The Museum’s research and offerings extend beyond campus and are accessible to the surrounding area colleges, K-12 schools, and lifelong learners.

In addition to continued programming onsite, the Museum staff leads customized and special programs for Rollins College, other colleges and universities, and surrounding communities.