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well Central Florida of course is home
to world's famous theme parks but what
you may not know is that we've got some
pretty great museums yes and Saturday
museums across the country are opening
their doors free of charge and honor a
free museum day and one of those museums
happens to be the Manila Museum of
American Art Oh beautiful one there
we're joined now with Francesca's a
stone a marketing and graphic design
coordinator for the Monello thank you so
much for joining us you for having me
all right so what what can we expect if
we go to a free the free day tomorrow
well tomorrow museum day is actually
hosted by Smithsonian magazine and it's
initiative across the country in the
spirit of the Smithsonian museums in
Washington DC and their commitment to
allowing free admission every day of the
year so in that same spirit museums
across the country can offer free
admission tomorrow to anyone who
downloads a ticket and the Mennella is
actually making a little bit more
special tomorrow we're having our
friends at Central Florida watercolor
Society join us and they're going to be
painting and plein air in our sculpture
garden and also doing watercolor demos
for the kids it was a great day to get
out with the kids like we talked about
earlier because of the heat and
everything else but you also have some
great exhibits there to catch even for
the adults too yeah so the manila museum
is actually a really intimate cultural
gem located in lochhaven cultural park
we're right behind the Orlando Science
Center and we have the largest permanent
collection of earl cunningham paintings
who was an american folk artist from st.
augustine and in addition we have
rotating exhibitions of american art
throughout the year and right now on
view we have an incredible show
featuring four phenomenal local artists
really cultivating our arts community
here in orlando and we've heard of this
our orlando exhibit can you kind of give
us an idea of what that is sure it's a
internally curated show featuring four
local artists Peterson Gary air boy Kong
Sara M bender and Kelly joy lad and they
all created brand new works on view in
the museum now through October 7th
that's beautiful and that's some of the
images that you would actually be able
to see if you go there tomorrow on a 3d
art they're beautiful mm-hmm and why is
this such a great opportunity I mean
normally museums don't charge a huge
amount to get into but on three day wise
such a great opportunity to get out I
think the Smithsonian Museum day is
really about inclusivity it's about art
accessibility and it's about curiosity
and I think anyone no matter where
you're from or where you live you can
download a ticket and have this cultural
art experience and experience Central
Florida art for free and it's a
wonderful opportunity that's amazing and
you were also saying that there are some
things for the little ones if you want
to get involved on that so you have some
of the water coloring anything else that
the kids can can can expect I think just
an incredible show of being able to
experience the local art we're just
gonna have a really fun day with demos
outside with Central Florida watercolor
Society and it's all free so that's the
best part
yes and it's also inside and outdoors so
you can go out enjoy the the heat a
little bit and then go back inside enjoy
the AC you can do more than one museum
on museum day so move through there why
is it so important to support the Arts
I think supporting the Arts is just it's
it's an incredible opportunity to be
able to support what Central Florida is
really known for our arts community is
so vibrant and being able to support the
arts whether it's through coming to the
museum any day or coming tomorrow on
museum day just really supports our
local community and the local artists
and in the art here in Central Florida
and you also have some sculpture art too
is that inside outside can it give us
idea outside we have two incredible
large-scale sculpt is S is that the
video out of the video around gorgeous
and they are by Alice Aycock Waltzing
Matilda and twin vortexes they're
massive sculptures and they're just
beautiful to see in person I mean you're
looking at the snow you go oh wow that's
pretty
that could be y'all get animated sure
right right you picture the family in
front of it yeah definitely and how do
we go do we can we just show up or do we
need to go online and print that yes so
you need to just visit it's real easy
smithsonian.com slash museum day and
there you can see a list of
participating institutions including the
Monello and you just download your
ticket and her email address you get two
free admissions to the cultural
institution of your choice awesome and
it's all day right yes that's awesome
well thank you so much for joining us so
much for having me
great information and for a list of the
other area museums participating in free
museum day just go to click Orlando calm
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