The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum’s annual Easter Weekend Celebration invites you to view the collection at no charge. Live music by Josh Englert from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday, April 7.
Presented By: The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
Dates: April 7, 2023 – April 9, 2023
Recurrence: Recurring daily
Price: Free
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 8 p.m. Friday, 9:30 – 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 – 4 p.m. Sunday
The Morse Museum was founded by Jeannette Genius McKean (1909–89) in 1942 and named for her grandfather, Chicago industrialist and Winter Park philanthropist Charles Hosmer Morse. Its collections were built over a half-century by Mrs. McKean and her husband, Hugh F. McKean (1908–95), the Museum’s director until his death.
For 35 years, the Museum was housed on the campus of Rollins College and known as the Morse Gallery of Art. In 1977, it was relocated to 151 East Welbourne Avenue in Winter Park, and its name was changed in the mid-1980s to The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.
The Morse Museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), including the artist and designer’s jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass lamps and windows; his chapel interior from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and art and architectural objects from his Long Island country estate, Laurelton Hall. The Museum’s holdings also include American art pottery, late 19th- and early 20th-century American paintings, graphics, and decorative art.