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All the United States Florida Winter Park The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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LCT was best known for his work with stained glass.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
LCT was best known for his work with stained glass.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
Tiffany Chapel at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art   Courtesy of Visit Orlando
The spacious museum features both indoor and outdoor spaces designed by the younger Tiffany.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
The historic neighborhood is distinguished by bricked streets and historic homes.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
The Morse showcases pieces selected from his personal residence, Laurelton Hall, in Long Island, New York.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
The museum is located in the historic Winter Park neighborhood in Orlando.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
Louis Comfort Tiffany designed across a range of media including stained glass, furniture, and interiors.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
Caption: As a champion of Art Nouveau, Tiffany incorporated botanical motifs into much of his work.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
His fireplace hood, thought to have been destroyed in the 1957 fire that ravaged Laurelton Hall, was salvaged by the museum’s founder.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
An exhibit on iridescence examines an artistic movement that centered the semi-reflective material.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
Artwork that once hung in Laurelton Hall is now on display at the Morse Museum.   Courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida
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While his family name may call to mind the jewelry house founded by his father, the younger Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) earned a reputation of his own as a prolific artist and designer. Though he’s best known for his stained glass, Tiffany was also a painter, potter, metalworker, ceramicist, and later a jewelry maker. The most complete collection of his work—as well as a sweeping selection of work by accomplished contemporaries—can today be found at an understated museum north of Orlando in Winter Park. 

In breathless detail, the Morse Museum outlines Tiffany’s self-described "quest of beauty." Taking influence from the natural world, Tiffany impressed vibrant colors, botanical motifs, and flowing lines—today regarded as hallmarks of Art Nouveau—into his vast body of work. While the museum features permanent exhibits on iridescent glasswork, American taste during the Victorian Era, and the Arts and Crafts movement, Tiffany’s work is undoubtedly the centerpiece. The heart of this collection is a piece that, at once, showcases the range and mastery of Tiffany’s craftsmanship and artistry— the Tiffany Chapel. 

Built as a showpiece for the World’s Fair in 1893, Tiffany’s Byzantine-Romanesque chapel is said to have stunned many of its visitors to silence upon entering the space. Now reconstructed to its original composition at the Morse Museum, the chapel consists of 16 carved plaster arches, six soaring columns encrusted with glass mosaics, a 10-foot-wide electrified chandelier, a marble altar, a domed baptismal font, and several stained-glass windows. This cherished piece of Tiffany’s legacy, which he dedicated in part to his father, is one that established him internationally as a leading designer of his time.

The museum is also home to a 6,000-square-foot exhibit of objects salvaged from Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall Estate on Long Island, New York. He decorated the 84-room home with hand-selected furniture, lighting fixtures, windows, desk sets, and pottery. These included unique objects collected during his world travels and pieces designed by Tiffany that never made it to market. His “Four Seasons” window—a series of stained-glass window panels depicting each season—hung in his living room after winning a gold medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Laurelton Hall was abandoned and later ravaged by fire in 1957, but these and other objects were salvaged from the estate and donated to the Morse Museum thanks to Jeanette McKean, who founded the museum and dedicated it to her grandfather, Charles Hosmer Morse.

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Tickets ($6) can be booked through the Morse Museum website. Parking is available directly behind the museum; additional free parking is available at Park Place garage on Canton Avenue across from the museum. Closed Mondays and most major holidays.

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