Fragile Beauty: Strong Traditions in Decorative Arts
Wed, Feb 19, 2020
The Fragile Beauty collection features a fresh rotation of rarely displayed pieces of fine porcelain, glass, and ceramics hand selected from MOAS storage. This curated collection features works of decorative art ranging a several centuries and countr... Read More
STEAM at MOAS
Wed, Feb 05, 2020
What is STEAM? STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, ARTS, and mathematics. Instead of focusing just on the hard sciences, incorporating art and creativity in to teaching these subjects has proven to help students retain information bett... Read More
The 65th Anniversary and the Museum’s Early Days
Tue, Jan 28, 2020
January 28th of 2020 marks the Museum of Arts and Science’s 65th anniversary! Now home to over 30,000 objects including the Dow Gallery of American Art; one of the finest collections of American art in the Southeast, the Schulte Gallery of Chinese Ar... Read More
Ice Age Extinctions: What Happened?
Thu, Jan 23, 2020
What is an extinction event? Most people do not realize that paleontologists and scientists have created certain criteria for extinction events. These events are characterized by a sharp change in the abundance of multicellular organisms and a widesp... Read More
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!
Fri, Jan 17, 2020
What the heck is going on with Betelgeuse? The star with the fun name is doing some strange things.
For thousands of years, the shoulder star of the constellation Orion has burned as one of the brightest in Earth’s night sky. Over the past few w... Read More
Ten Reasons to Get Married at a Museum
Thu, Jan 09, 2020
What better memory to cherish than marrying your life partner joined by your closest family and friends in a breathtaking museum. Museums are a sophisticated wedding venue and we’ll give you 10 reasons why the next time you walk into one, your mind ... Read More
Bicycles: From Market Segment to Social Change
Wed, Dec 18, 2019
Suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony claimed the bicycle had done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. “I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike,” she said in 1895. “It gives her a feeling of self reliance and independenc... Read More
Arts and Culture of Micronesia
Wed, Dec 11, 2019
An exhibit showcasing many cultural and artistic relics from Micronesia. Arts and Culture of Micronesia will feature many diverse objects and traditional crafts from the personal collection of Barbara Wavell. A hand-crafted outrigger canoe, tradition... Read More
Water Use in Florida
Wed, Dec 04, 2019
Although it may seem that we have an infinite amount of water in our state and the quality of local water resources is pristine, our local water resources are in jeopardy as demand increases. Water resources, which includes groundwater, surface water... Read More
POP ART/OP ART From the MOAS Collection
Mon, Nov 25, 2019
With some of the biggest names in mid-twentieth-century Modernism represented, this exhibition highlights the Pop Art and Op Art movements so popular in the U.S. and around the world in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Works by Warhol, Rauschenberg, Indiana,... Read More
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.