Museum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach)

The Museum of Arts and Sciences, often referred to as the MOAS, is a museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

in Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach, Florida

Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, USA. According to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city has a population of 64,211. Daytona Beach is a principal city of the Deltona – Daytona Beach – Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which the census bureau estimated had...

, Florida

Florida

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, United States

United States

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. The museum a member of the American Association of Museums

American Association of Museums

The American Association of Museums is a non-profit association that has brought museums together since its founding in 1906, helping develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and advocating on issues of concern to the museum community...

and an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

. It is home to over 30,000 objects, making it one of the largest museums in central Florida.

History

The MOAS was founded as a non-profit educational institution in 1955. It wasn't until 1962 when it was chartered by the State of Florida.

Exhibits

Some notable exhibits include:

The most complete giant ground sloth
Ground sloth
Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. Their most recent survivors lived in the Antilles, where it has been proposed they may have survived until 1550 CE; however, the youngest AMS radiocarbon date reported is 4190 BP, calibrated to c. 4700 BP...

skeleton in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

housed in a Florida fossil gallery
The largest permanent exhibition of Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

n art outside of Cuba
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...

entrepreneur Chapman Root's lifetime collection of Americana, including two private rail cars
Private railroad car
A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car or private varnish is a railroad passenger car which was either originally built or later converted for service as a business car for private individuals. A private car could be added to the make-up of a train or pulled by a private...

, the second largest collection of Coca-Cola memoribilia in the world (featuring original molds and the original patents for the bottle), indy race cars, teddy bears, and quilts.
While about half of the exhibits are permanent, there are many exhibits which change every few months.
A great collection of International Decorative Arts and Early American Furniture and Art
A gallery of Chinese art and a collection of Japanese Prints
A space dedicated to Florida history that rotates displays from the MOAS permanent collection (Florida Pirates, Early Maps, Plantations of Florida)

The museum also has its own theater, planetarium

Planetarium

A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...

and cafe

Café

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Charles and Linda William's Children's Museum

MOAS opened the first science center in the area on November 21, 2008. The Charles and Linda William's Children's Museum features hands-on science exhibits in a 9000 square feet (836.1 m²) state-of-the-art facility.

Old St. Augustine Village

Old St. Augustine Village, located in the heart of the nation's oldest city, is owned and operated by MOAS. Included in the 1572 town plan of St. Augustine, the site consists of five houses dating from 1790 - 1910 with exhibits of historic furnishings, fine museum collections, and a series of outdoor exhibits.

Gamble Place

Another off-site exhibit MOAS has to offer is Gamble Place

Gamble Place Historic District

The Gamble Place Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Port Orange, Florida. The district is at 1819 Taylor Road. It contains 6 historic buildings, 5 structures, and 14 objects.-External links:...

. Nestled among the Spruce Creek Preserve, this property features Florida's rich natural environment and a unique historic past told by the property's three historic house museums. Gamble Place has been developed and restored by the Museum of Arts & Sciences in cooperation with the Nature Conservancy and the City of Port Orange

Port Orange, Florida

Port Orange is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. In 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population as 52,793. The city is part of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area; the metropolitan area's 2006 population was estimated at...

. It is now a 175 acre (0.7082005 km²) park with trails that cover five different ecosystems and is home to many endangered and threatened species.

Klancke Environmental Education Complex

In 2005 MOAS opened the Kim A. Klancke, M.D. & Marsha L. Klancke Environmental Education Complex in Tuscawilla Preserve, a 90 acres (364,217.4 m²) nature preserve in the middle of Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach, Florida

that includes over 1/2 mile of boardwalks and nature trails. The preserve protects virgin Florida coastal hydrick

Hydric soil

A hydric soil is a soil that formed under conditions of saturation, flooding, or ponding long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part....

Hammock (ecology)

Hammock

A hammock is a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, suspended between two points, used for swinging, sleeping, or resting. It normally consists of one or more cloth panels, or a woven network of twine or thin rope stretched with ropes between two firm anchor points such as trees or posts....

, which a type of wet forest, and is a habitat for endangered species of flora and fauna.

External links

Museum of Arts and Sciences - official website
Old St. Augustine Village
Gamble Place

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