Daytona Beach - Museum of Arts and Sciences

Women Painting Florida

Through Fall 2013

Significant artworks from the Florida Art Collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown, chosen as an overview of the achievements by women artists. In each of the works is a piece of the wonder that is the State of Florida. This exhibit offers a beautiful vision of Florida as it - and the women artists who worked here - developed through time. For more about the new Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art at MOAS, please click here.

A Treasury of Indian and Persian Miniature Paintings

May 18, 2013 - August 18, 2013

"...Indian miniature painting, with its saturated colors and its symbolic, exotic imagery, is directly seductive. It has the magical power to transport us from everyday reality to that enchanted world full of delightful wonder and fantasy...." - Roy C. Craven, Jr., former Professor of Art, Emeritus, University of Florida, in A Treasury of Indian Miniature Paintings

Sacred Images: Icons from the MOAS Collection

February 23, 2013 - June 2, 2013

The iconic visions of Russian and Greek saints and the historic stories of the saints themselves are beautifully and strikingly represented in this lovely grouping, depicting both miraculous stories of the past and the rich heritage of both nations.

Drama and Beauty in Black and White: Photographs from the MOAS Collection

May 4, 2013 - August 25, 2013

Compares and contrasts views of the North's rigid and ice-covered mountain ranges with the tranquility of Florida's limpid waterways.

Discover the Daytona Mastodon

Through Fall 2013

The fossilized American mastodon (Mammut americanum) remains were unearthed in November 2011, in Daytona Beach. Select Mastodon fossils such as the jaw, teeth, ribs, vertebrae and partial tusks are included in the display – about 20-30% of the animal’s fossilized remains were recovered from the site by the Museum.

Giant Ground Sloth

MOAS welcomed back the historic Giant Ground Sloth to public viewing in May 2011. After being kept behind closed doors due to 2009 flooding, the sloth is again on display as part of the Museum's permanent collection. The impressive 13-foot tall skeleton of the Eremotherium laurillardi or Giant Ground Sloth was excavated in 1975, in an important Pleistocene fossil site called the Daytona Bone Bed. Dr. Gordon Edmund, Curator of Vertebrate Palenontology at Canada's Royal Ontario Museum, identified and reconstructed the sloth for MOAS. Click here for more...

Celestial Charts from the MOAS Collection

Through a generous gift provided by the Mombello-Russo Art Acquisition Fund, the Museum has had the fortunate opportunity to purchase seven beautiful and academically important celestial maps and astronomical illustrations to add to the burgeoning astronomy collection that complements the planetarium.

This building, unique to the state of Florida, opened February 26, 2011. The state-of-the-art, 4,400 square foot addition to the Museum, made possible through a generous donation from Mrs. Helene B. Roberson and funding from the County of Volusia ECHO grant program, displays important works from the Museum's collection in a glass-fronted, open storage format and contains art and artifacts that were not previously on exhibit. The Helene B. Roberson Visible Storage Building is the only such facility for art and decorative art objects in Florida. The first display of the Visible Storage Building includes selections from the Museum's extensive European and American furniture collection, as well as significant art and artifacts from the Arts in the Age of Napoleon Collection, one of the most richly historic collections of Napoleonic holdings in the Southeastern United States.