Mennello Museum - City of Orlando

Self-Taught Black Artists in the American South

This exhibition presents the work of 13 Black self-taught artists from the American South. It highlights excellent examples from the Mennello Museum's permanent collection alongside the 2023 acquisition of works from the Polk Museum of Art. Now open through May 19, 2024, from the Collection with Recent Acquisitions.

Outdoor Yoga in the Sculpture Garden

Join us Sunday mornings at 11:30 am for a blissful yoga flow in the museum's gardens. Teachers are all Full Circle Yoga certified instructors here to guide you through your practice.

Lecture Series - Dr. Porchia Moore & Alyne Harris

Join Dr. Porchia Moore and Alyne Harris at the Mennello Museum April 27 at 1pm for an afternoon tea time and lecture.

John James Audubon's Viviparous Quadrupeds

Coming Soon: In the early 1840s, John James Audubon set out on his second grand expedition, this time to record and draw the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. This exhibition presents 36 of those works highlighting everything from squirrels and rabbits to large cats and buffalo.

Mark Messersmith: Long Summer

Coming Soon: Over the past four decades, Mark Messersmith has created densely packed, large-scale paintings showcasing Floridaʼs untamed landscapes. Long Summer is a focus gallery featuring Messersmithʼs paintings that consider the themes of struggle among Florida's people, flora, and fauna for its dwindling natural resources.

Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism

Coming this Fall: The first museum retrospective exhibition in over 20 years of paintings by American artist Sally Michel (1902 - 2003), Abstracting Tonalism presents the themes of Michel’s oeuvre between the 1930s – 2000s, which ranged from studied nudes to intimate, figurative depictions of her closest relationships to rare, captivating landscapes of her travels in the United States and abroad.