Cici & Hyatt Brown Museum of Art


Part of the Museum of Arts & Sciences complex, this striking must-see museum, designed to look like a rural Floridian house, tells the story of the Sunshine State via the largest collection of Florida-themed oil and watercolor paintings in the world.


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