Explore Orlando

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is the main performing arts venue in downtown Orlando, designed by Barton Myers and opened in 2014. Under its wide canopy roof are the 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater for Broadway tours and concerts, the 1,700-seat Steinmetz Hall of 2022, the smaller Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater and a cabaret room.

The Orange County Regional History Center is a history museum in downtown Orlando, housed since 2000 in the neoclassical 1927 Orange County Courthouse designed by Murry S. King. Four floors of exhibits trace about 14,000 years of Central Florida history, alongside visiting exhibitions; the museum is a Smithsonian affiliate.

The Orlando Science Center is a hands-on science museum in Loch Haven Park, founded in 1955 as the Central Florida Museum. Its present building opened in 1997 and holds four floors of exhibit halls, among them NatureWorks on Florida's ecosystems and the DinoDigs fossil hall, plus a large-format film theater.

The Orlando Museum of Art was founded in 1924 as the Orlando Art Association and took its present name in 1986. Its building in Loch Haven Park dates from 1960 and was enlarged in 1997. The collection covers American art, art of the ancient Americas, African art and contemporary prints, shown beside changing exhibitions.

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art on Park Avenue in Winter Park, near Orlando, was founded in 1942. Its core is a collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany, including the chapel he made for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and pieces saved from his Laurelton Hall estate, beside American art pottery and paintings.