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Museum in DeLand, Florida, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Museum of Art - DeLand, Florida (formerly the Museum of Florida Art) is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the US state of Florida, and is a member of the American Alliance of Museums and the Florida Association of Museums. It is a community visual arts museum dedicated to the collecting, preservation, study, display and educational use of the fine arts. In addition to the permanent collection, the museum is host to exhibitions, gallery talks and receptions, educational programming, master artist workshops and special events throughout the year.
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600 North Woodland Boulevard location across from Stetson University | |
  Location within Volusia County | |
| Established | 1951[1] |
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| Coordinates | 29.03780°N 81.30412°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | George Bolge |
| Curator | David Fithian |
| Website | moartdeland |
The museum was established in 1951 by the American Association of University Women. Its campus includes a 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2) arts facility completed in 1991, and the adjacent Evans C. and Betty Drees Johnson Children’s Art Center, which opened in 2010. In 2013 the museum expanded to include 2,970 square feet (276 m2) of modern gallery space and a 2,239-square-foot (208 m2) Museum Store located at 100 N. Woodland Boulevard in the center of historic downtown DeLand.[2][3]
The museum provides programming to various age groups, including lectures, discussions, gallery talks, tours and field studies, art classes and workshops, art camps and community outreach presentations.[4][5][6]
The museum has hosted to multiple exhibitions by internationally renowned artists such as Mateo Blanco, Sandro Chia,[7] Stephen Althouse,[8] and many more.[9][10] The museum's 2013 exhibition, "Forging an Identity: Contemporary Latin American Art", presented works by Fernando Botero, Tomás Sánchez and Roberto Matta.[11]
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