The Bass Museum of Art exhibits the visual arts. The main building is a 15,500 square foot Art Deco Building recognized on the National Register of Historic Places. It is presently under construction and will not be open until late 2000.

The purpose of the Museum is twofold: to enrich the university and the community by exhibiting works of art which expand the understanding of art today and of the past and to serve as a teaching instrument for art instruction, particularly by holding exhibitions of informational value to students and the general public and by providing student artists with an arena to exhibit their work.

The Harn's permanent collection has 6,000 original art work, including paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, photographs, and cultural objects. Africa, Asia, and the ancient Americas are some of the cultures represented.

The Hibel Museum of Art is a multi-functional cultural and educational institution where scholars, artists and the public may find the resources for the study and appreciation of a broad collection of Hibel's work.

PB/ICA believes that contemporary visual arts helps us better understand society and ourselves, and therefore exhibits, studies and interprets the works of vital regional, national and international artists of our time. It is undergoing renovation and will reopen March 4, 2000.

The Intenational Museum of Cartoon Art is the only museum of its kind with cartoonists represented from over 50 countries. Its collection includes every genre of the art: animation, comic books, comic strips, gag cartoons, illustration, editorial cartoons, greeting cards, caricature, graphic novels, sports cartoons, and computer generated art.

The Museum will be in the historic Western Union building, adjacent to the City Hall on Hemming Plaza. This facility will house the Museum’s permanent collection, traveling exhibitions, educational facilities, the Museum store, and cafe. Renovations are expected to be complete in 2001. Important works from the Museum’s collection are also on exhibition at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts.

The Latin American Art Museum is the first and only museum dedicated 100% to the preservation, diffusion and promotion of Hispanic and Latin American Art, that means: Spain and Latin America, including non-Spanish speaking countries such as Brazil and Haiti. They are a contemporary art museum, not historical or pre-Columbian.

The LeMoyne Art Foundation has served Tallahassee for over 30 years as a nonprofit center promoting the visual arts through exhibits, educational programs for all ages, and special events appealing to the community.

The Lowe Art Museum, is the art museum of the University of Miami, it serves the University, and the Greater South Florida communities, and national and international visitors as a teaching and exhibiting resource through its permanent and borrowed collections.

MAM collects, exhibits, presents and interprets international art, with a focus on works of the Western Hemisphere from the 1940s to the present. To complement the mission, MAM exhibits works outside this time frame for historical context.

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens features expansive galleries where varying exhibitions of Japanese arts, crafts and artifacts are displayed. It also contains the Seishin-an teahouse with regularly scheduled demonstrations of the Japanese tea ceremony, a 225 seat theater offering lectures and performing arts, the IBM Infotronic Gallery multimedia resource center and the Cornell Cafe serving Japanese and Asian lunches.

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art houses the most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany found anywhere, a major collection of American art pottery and representative collections of late-19th and early-20th century American paintings, graphics and the decorative arts.

The Museum of Arts and Sciences emphasizes Florida History, Art and Science. The museum offers rotating exhibits in these three genres.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) is a site for discovering new artists, contemplating the work of contemporary masters, and learning about our living cultural heritage, and is known for its provocative and innovative exhibitions.

The Museum of Florida's Art and Culture is dedicated to the artists of Florida whose work, any medium, is visually linked to Florida's history, heritage or environment. The Museum's mission is to present and preserve that heritage with art and, to that end, we have taken the lead in researching and documenting Florida's contemporary art traditions. That research has led to the identification of the Highwaymen, a group of black, self taught artists who are recognized as being the beginning of an art movement now known as the "Indian River School."

The Norton Museum of Art features European, American, Chinese and Contemporary art, Photography, Old Master Paintings and works on paper. Noteworthy traveling exhibits are constantly shown.

The Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) is dedicated to collecting, preserving and interpreting notable works of art. In addition to presenting exhibitions of local, regional, national and international significance, the OMA provides educational programs to appeal to all segments of its diverse audiences.

Founded in 1946 as a War Memorial, the Museum now is home to a collection of paintings by Malcolm Fraser and changing monthly art exhibits in all media. Located on four acres of lush tropical gardens with native Florida plants, the Museum is an oasis in busy downtown Ormond Beach.

The Polk Museum of Art is located in the heart of Central Florida's Polk County and within Lakeland's historic downtown district, the Museum is a cultural hub for visitors of all ages. With a policy of FREE admission that has not changed since the Museum's founding in 1966, the Polk Museum of Art offers spectacular exhibitions and a bevy of dynamic events that are accessible to everyone.

The Pensacola Museum of Art is a nonprofit educational institution devoted to fostering awareness and appreciation of visual arts. The museum serves the community through its exhibits as well as maintaining collections and a reference library, offering art classes for all ages and sponsoring social activities. Founded in 1954 as the Pensacola Art Association, the organization was housed in the old jail building. The name was changed to the Penscola Museum of Art in 1982.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum is internationally recognized for its Baroque paintings including such highlights as Peter Paul Rubens' Triumph of the Eucharist (the only painting cycle by this artist outside Europe), Diego Velazquez's Philip IV of Spain, Frans Hals' Pieter Olycan and Nicolas Poussin's Holy Family. The Museum also contains significant holdings of works on paper, ancient and decorative arts. The 19th century is magnificently represented by artists such as Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Alfred Stevens, as well as by two interiors originally installed in the Caroline and John Jacob Astor IV Mansion in New York. The Museum actively collects 20th century and contemporary art and presents exciting temporary exhibitions in all of its collection areas on a regular basis.

The Dali Museum has attracted visitors from around the world. The museum's retrospective collection of 95 original oils, over 100 watercolors and drawings, nearly 1,300 graphics, plus sculptures, objet's d'art, photographs, and an extensive archival library offers these visitors and scholars opportunity to see and study the full development and diversity of Dali's creativity from 1914 (age 10) to 1980. Changing special exhibitions of other works in the collection as well as temporary shows allows visitors to view more outstanding works by Dali, other artists and specific aspects of Surrealism.

An outgrowth of Daytona Beach Community College's active photography program, the Southeast Museum is the only museum in the Southeast devoted entirely to photography. Opened in 1992, the handsome 10,000-square-foot facility hosts changing exhibits of historical and contemporary photography as well as lectures, symposia, children's programs, print viewing in its permanent collection and study in its extensive library. Its site is currently down.

The Museum of Fine Arts has the only comprehensive art collection, extending from antiquity to the present day, on the Florida West Coast. The collection of 4,000 objects includes significant works by Monet, Gauguin, Renoir, Cézanne, Rodin, Henri, Bellows, and O'Keeffe. African, Asian, pre-Columbian, and Native American objects, as well as photographs, are also on view. A gallery is devoted to Steuben glass.

The primary mission of the USF Contemporary Art Museum is to bring to the University and the Tampa Bay community vital, investigative and scholarly contemporary exhibitions, while simultaneously contributing to the dialogue within the international arts community by organizing exhibitions, producing relevant catalogues, scheduling critically significant traveling exhibitions and by underwriting experimental projects of artists emerging on the national and the international fronts.

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, A Museum of Art and Design, 1885-1945. The Wolfsonian-FIU, a museum located in historic South Beach, has a fascinating collection of art and design from1885-1945. Focusing on how art and design reflect and shape the human experience, The Wolfsonian-FIU's collection includes: decorative art, industrial design, sculpture, furniture, paintings, rare books, posters, machines, and more.

Zora Neale Hurston Museum of Fine Arts is named for Central Florida's lone literary genius, the Zora Neale Hurston. Its home in a modest store front on busy Kennedy Boulevard. The exterior is faded and run down, and only a glimmer of its once-vibrant nouveau exterior is noticeable. Inside, you'll find displayed some of the most noted African-American art of the past and present. It is also home to the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, which receives national attention.