Where Orlando's Art Lives Right Now

Through Sep 7, 2026

Twenty-plus optical illusions designed to rewire how you think about seeing. PHENOMENA isn't a passive walk-through — it's an immersive experience that may feel like your brain is lying to you at every turn. 

Runs well into the school year, so if you missed it over summer break there's still time.

Forced perspective rooms, vortex tunnels, holograms, and Ames rooms that will make your group argue about what they're actually seeing.

A solid pick for visiting family who want something I-Drive adjacent that doesn't require four hours and a theme park budget.

If the goal is less “take the kids to a museum” and more “get the kids making something,” Creadé is the answer. Running since 1975, it offers youth workshops across ceramics, drawing, painting, and more.

Through Aug 23

This one opened on the 10th anniversary of June 12, 2016. Community-created portraiture honoring the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub tragedy, along with survivors and first responders.

The exhibit represents collective healing through art — an insistence on visibility and remberance.

Eatonville — the first incorporated Black municipality in the US, founded in 1887 — is ten minutes from downtown Orlando and still mostly unknown to people who didn't grow up near it. The Hurston offers tours and serves as a living storybook filled with rich Orlando history.

Winter Park's Park Avenue narrative tends to center around it's boutiques and brunch spots. The Hannibal Square Heritage Center tells the other story: the African American community that built the west side of Winter Park.

The 407 is home to one of America's most dynamic Latino communities, Arte Mundial offers curated exhibitions of Latin American and Hispanic art bringing that identity to life 

One of the more significant memorial institutions in the Southeast — a place that holds testimony, artifact, and history with care.

If you have not been to the Morse Museum, add it to your list. It holds the world's most comprehensive collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work, including the reconstructed Tiffany Chapel.

Admission under $10 for adults. Free on Friday afternoons.

Through Aug 30 · Free

Three overlapping exhibitions through August: The Captivating Unknown, Pathways 2026: The Carlos Malamud Prize, and I remember when... — the RMA staff's own personal artwork.

Through Aug 9

A lakeside property that was once the home and studio of Czech-American sculptor Albin Polasek — now a museum and sculpture garden of genuine beauty.

Permanent collection of Earl Cunningham's luminous Florida landscapes — saturated with an almost hallucinatory color palette. The museum’s campus offers walking paths, green space and generous views of the lake and surrounding nature.

Loch Haven Park's crown institution and the largest art museum in Central Florida. The permanent collection covers American art from the 19th century through the present.

SNAP! has been making the argument for photography as contemporary fine art since 2011.

Located on Orange Avenue, CityArts serves as a platform for Central Florida artists across mediums, rotating exhibitions frequently enough to reward regular visits.

Over 150 pieces — paintings, sculpture, original art glass — and rotating exhibitions that would hold their own in a dedicated gallery context.

The Annual Juried Student Exhibition showcases artwork from talented student artists across Orange County. A free public celebration of emerging creative talent from local schools and universities.

A National Historic Landmark designed by artist André Smith in a Mayan Revival style. The architecture alone justifies the visit.

A Park Avenue stalwart showing contemporary fine art in a well-curated, manageable space.

A gallery specializing in African bronze sculpture and fine art.

Botanical gardens as landscape art, plus the Leu House Museum for historical context.

A second SNAP! location in the downtown core, bringing the same photography-as-fine-art programming to a different neighborhood.