Museums - Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando Museum of Art
2416 N Mills Ave.
Orlando, FL 32803
U.S.A.
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The collection of the Orlando Museum of Art has been built on generous donations and several purchases. A major donation by Howard Campbell in the late 1970s was the start of the African and Ancient Americas collections. Recent significant gifts include about 300 significant pieces of ancient Peruvian artwork from Dr. and Mrs. Solomon D. Klotz and 142 South African pieces from Norma Canelas and William D. Roth. Other donors include James F. Turner, Howard Phillips, and Dr. and Mrs. Glen Murphy. The OMA’s Friends of Art of the Ancient Americas Collecting Circle group was formed to purchase artwork for the Ancient Americas collection, and have added seven pieces over the last three years. The museum has more than 2,000 African and pre-Columbian pieces in the permanent collections, about one-quarter of which is on view. The rest is accessible to researchers by appointment.
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African art Exhibition
Living in Style: African Art of Everyday Life at the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) presents beautifully crafted utilitarian objects created by men and women from traditional societies across the African continent. Works on view in the exhibition include domestic implements, containers, furniture, weapons, jewellery, and apparel. These articles were created not only to fulfil a functional purpose, but also to be expressive works of art and valued possessions that communicated important cultural ideas within their home societies. Whether in a South African wire work bottle or a Chokwe chair from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the useful and the symbolic commingle to give rise to works that tell many simultaneous stories both current and historic.
Precolumbian art Exhibition
Aztec to Zapotec: Selections from the Ancient Americas Collection features more than 180 works made prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Representing a time period of more than 3,000 years, the exhibition is drawn from the OMA’s comprehensive Art of the Ancient Americas Collection and gives a rare glimpse into the life and culture of numerous civilizations from the North, Central and South American regions. Significant ancient works of gold, silver, jade, ceramic, shell and wood are included from the cultures of the Aztec, Maya, Moche, Nasca, Inca and Zapotec.