Half of Daytona's visitors never learn it exists: a 100,000-square-foot museum on Nova Road, a Smithsonian affiliate, ranked among the largest museums in the Southeast. The Museum of Arts and Sciences — MOAS — is the beach town's serious cultural counterweight, and the films on this page tour it wing by wing.

Museum of Arts & Sciences - Daytona Beach, Florida

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The Daytona Beach CVB's Museum of Arts and Sciences feature makes the scale argument first: 100,000 square feet, a Smithsonian affiliate, and one of the largest museums in the Southeast hiding in Daytona Beach. The tour touches Americana (Indy Series race cars, trains), the Cuban Foundation Museum collection — among the most important collections of Cuban fine and folk art outside Cuba — the planetarium, and the hands-on Charles and Linda Williams Children's Museum.

Key takeaways
  • Smithsonian affiliate; 100,000 sq ft on Nova Road
  • Cuban Foundation Museum collection is a headline holding
  • Planetarium plus a dedicated children's museum inside

Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach, Florida

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A compact official introduction to the Museum of Arts and Sciences, filmed inside its galleries (2018): the museum sits on Nova Road between International Speedway Boulevard and Beville Road, its Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art holds the largest collection of Florida art in the world, the Root Family Museum tells a Coca-Cola bottling family's story, and the planetarium anchors the science side. Dense narration makes it the fastest orientation on this page.

Key takeaways
  • Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art: the world's largest Florida art collection, per the museum
  • Root Family Museum covers the Coca-Cola bottling story
  • Art of Cuba, China and Africa alongside the planetarium

Museums in Daytona Beach, Florida

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The Daytona Beach CVB's 'Museums in Daytona Beach' roundup (2019), a short tour of the city's museum scene including MOAS. (Transcript not stored — the track carries no substantive narration.)

The Brown collection of Florida art

The Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art, walked in full here, holds what the museum describes as the world's largest collection of Florida art — landscapes of a Florida that mostly no longer exists. The Spotlight Daytona episode goes deeper, sitting down with director Andrew Sandall for the museum's own account of where it is headed.

Trains, bones and a planetarium

The Root Family Museum tour covers the crowd-pleaser wing — trains, Americana and the Root family's Coca-Cola fortune made visible — while the museum's own Lohman Planetarium film takes the virtual tour route through its shows. A full 2026 visitor tour, nearly an hour, walks the whole complex as it stands now.

Spotlight Daytona Episode 12 featuring The Museum of Arts & Science (MOAS)

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Spotlight Daytona's 2019 episode sits down with executive director Andrew Sandall at the Museum of Arts & Sciences on Nova Road and tours what the museum was becoming under his leadership: a deliberately welcoming, dialogue-friendly museum rebuilt around what the Daytona Beach community said it wanted. The conversation covers the programming shift beyond lectures — rum-running history nights, dance events and installations in the lobby, facility rentals, and families who treat Monday visits as a weekly habit — plus Sandall's case that a first museum visit should make someone want to visit a second one.

Key takeaways
  • Executive director Andrew Sandall (arrived 2012) rebuilt MOAS around community input
  • Programming deliberately goes beyond lectures: themed history nights, dance events, rentals
  • The museum sits off Nova Road with the planetarium, children's museum and Brown Museum of Art on one campus

Museum of Arts & Sciences In Daytona Beach Full Tour 2026

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A complete walk-through of the Museum of Arts & Sciences in 2026 — 61 minutes moving gallery by gallery through the art, science and history wings and the grounds. (Supadata returned transcript-unavailable on two attempts, so the tour loads as watch content.)

Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art ****, Daytona Beach, Florida

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This Is Florida walks the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art (2021), the MOAS campus building devoted to Florida art, reading the collection wall by wall: George Inness and his son, Martin Johnson Heade's St. Johns River scenes, Hermann Herzog, Thomas Moran and a Winslow Homer Spanish-moss Florida scene, alongside Volusia County subjects — the Tomoka River, Ponce Inlet, Ormond's Loop and old Daytona street scenes. The narration dates the building to 2015 and notes its architecture won an award for its Florida Cracker-inspired design.

Key takeaways
  • The Brown Museum of Art is the MOAS building devoted entirely to Florida art
  • Artists on the walls include Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, Martin Johnson Heade and George Inness
  • Local subjects recur: the St. Johns and Tomoka rivers, Ponce Inlet, Ormond and historic Daytona

A museum mid-reinvention

The News-Journal film on this page documents the next chapter: a rebuild and rebrand of the museum as 'The Brown.' Details will move as that project does — the film is the record of the plan as announced, and the galleries the other films tour remain the visit in the meantime.

Sources: the 9 videos on this page, filmed at the Museum of Arts and Sciences between 2018 and 2026.

Watch: Museum Of Arts And Sciences, guided

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Daytona Beach Museum of Arts & Sciences getting new building and name

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The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports (December 2025) on the museum's next era: MOAS is being rebuilt and renamed 'The Brown,' with a new building rising toward Nova Road and joined to the Brown Museum of Art by a visitor-nexus welcome center housing ticketing, retail and a café under one roof, while the existing MOAS building's site is repurposed within the campus plan. In the announcement, Cici and Hyatt Brown describe committing $150 million including a three-for-one match on other donations (capped at $25 million), toward a combined building-and-endowment of about $125 million, with construction expected to take roughly two and a half to three years.

Key takeaways
  • As announced in December 2025: MOAS becomes 'The Brown,' with a new building facing Nova Road
  • A visitor nexus (ticketing, retail, café) will join the new building to the Brown Museum of Art under one roof
  • The Browns committed $150M including a 3-for-1 match capped at $25M; target endowment about $125M

The Root Family Museum (Daytona Beach, Florida)

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Zinestage tours the Root Family Museum (2021), the MOAS wing built around the Root family's collections — its railroad cars and Americana displays are the museum's most nostalgic rooms. (No usable transcript track; loads as watch content.)

Virtual Tour of the Lohman Planetarium at MOAS

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The museum's own curator-led virtual tour of the Lohman Planetarium (2020), from the closure-era virtual series — a look inside the dome and its projection theater. (No usable transcript track; loads as watch content.)

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