Free, and most people walk right past it

Two films on this page pitch the Rollins Museum of Art the same way: Orlando's hidden masterpiece, a free museum that most visitors — and plenty of locals — never notice, sitting on the Rollins College campus in Winter Park. The family review here sets the timing: skim it in about 30 minutes, or take an hour-plus looking closely. Their favorite piece is made entirely of candy wrappers and newspaper.

A review of the free & family friendly Rollins Museum of Art located in Winter Park, Florida in 2023

Papa’s Family Adventures

Papa's Family Adventures review the free Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park — you can skim it in about 30 minutes or take an hour-plus looking closely; their favorite piece is made entirely of candy wrappers and newspaper.

Key takeaways
  • Free admission, family-friendly review
  • 30-minute skim or an hour-plus deep look
  • A candy-wrapper artwork steals the show

Rollins Museum of Art - Cornell Fine Arts Museum - Art - Rollins College - Winter Park - Florida

Mr. Nooks & Crannies

Mr. Nooks & Crannies walk the Rollins College art museum in silence by design — 'no talking, just enjoy the works of art' — over music, when the museum still carried the Cornell Fine Arts name. (Transcript not stored: the caption track is sung lyrics over a music-backed walkthrough, not narration — rejected per gate.)

Cornell Fine Arts Museum Tour at Rollins College in Winter Park

Orlando Local Guide

Orlando Local Guide tour the museum in 2014, when it was still the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College — the recording captures a family-day program with museum staff and docents talking through the collection. (The museum was renamed Rollins Museum of Art in 2021.)

Key takeaways
  • Filmed in 2014 under the Cornell Fine Arts name
  • Family-day programming with museum educators
  • Renamed Rollins Museum of Art in 2021

The collection

An exhibition visit on this page runs the scope: more than 5,000 objects from antiquity to contemporary art, rare Old Master paintings, six galleries and a print study room. The museum's own channel peeks inside Symbolic Languages, an exhibition co-curated with 30 preschool children around four artworks about faces and connection — a show about trusting your own response to art.

A note on the name

Older films here call it the Cornell Fine Arts Museum — that was its name until the 2021 rename to Rollins Museum of Art. The 2014 tour in this set captures a family day under the old name, with educators working the collection; the art, and the free admission, haven't changed.

Sources: the eight videos on this page — family and exhibition reviews, the museum's own exhibition peek, and collection tours old and new — summarized from their entries in our catalog.

The Rollins Museum of Art Orlando’s Hidden Masterpiece You Never Noticed

Giff Vacation Pool Homes

Giff Vacation Pool Homes make the case for the Rollins Museum of Art as Orlando's hidden masterpiece — a free museum most visitors never notice, folded into their guide to free things to do in Orlando.

Key takeaways
  • Pitched as a hidden masterpiece
  • Free admission is the headline
  • Aimed at Orlando visitors on a budget

Inside Rollins Museum of Art – A Treasure Few Locals Know!

Giff Vacation Pool Homes

Giff Vacation Pool Homes go inside the Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park — a treasure few locals know about — as part of their free-Orlando-attractions series.

Key takeaways
  • Inside look at the galleries
  • Framed as a locals-don't-know secret
  • Free admission featured

Rollins College Museum of Art Summer exhibitions part1 Contemporary Art Winter Park, Florida

Art Exhibitions Magazine

Art Exhibitions Magazine walk the Rollins Museum of Art's summer contemporary exhibitions in Winter Park (part one). (Transcript not stored: no caption track available (Supadata api_error, unbilled).)

Watch: Rollins Museum of Art, guided

2 videos · summaries from the actual guides

A Must See! Peek inside interactive Symbolic Languages: Children's Understandings of the Collection

Rollins Museum of Art

The Rollins Museum of Art's own channel peeks inside Symbolic Languages, an exhibition co-curated with 30 preschool children around four artworks about faces and social-emotional connection — a show about trusting your own response to art, not just looking.

Key takeaways
  • Exhibition co-curated with 30 preschoolers
  • Built around faces and social-emotional themes
  • From the museum's official channel

“Salitral” at Rollins Museum of Art. Winter Park, Fl. December 2024

Sara Kennedy

Sara Kennedy visits the Salitral exhibition at the Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park and runs through the museum's scope: more than 5,000 objects from antiquity to contemporary art, rare Old Master paintings, six galleries and a print study room — plus the 2021 rename from the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.

Key takeaways
  • 5,000+ objects, antiquity to contemporary
  • Six galleries and a print study room
  • Renamed from Cornell Fine Arts Museum in 2021

More Orlando essentials

Share this page
X Facebook Pinterest Email