Car Rental Orlando and Cornell Fine Arts Museum

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Reopened to the public just in January of 2006, the newly renovated Cornell Fine Arts Museum is one of Florida's premiere art showrooms, providing car rental Orlando travelers with access to a wide variety of influential works and contemporary pieces. Home to Florida's oldest and most distinguished collections, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum is currently ranked among the nation's top college art galleries, attracting students and art lovers from around the city and across the state. Recently reopened after an 18 month construction phase, the new Cornell Fine Arts Museum is now housed within an architectural jewel on the edge of Lake Virginia, providing car rental Orlando customers with a magnificent panoramic view of the surrounding waters. A definite must-visit for art and architecture lovers alike, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum is currently open from 10am to 5pm Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 1pm to 5pm on Sundays. Admission is just $5 for adults; students with ID are admitted free of charge.

The expansion of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, by ACi architects, has more than doubled the establishment's gallery space, providing car rental Orlando customers with six stunning state-of-the-art galleries, devoted to well over 5,000 innovative artworks. The Cornell Fine Arts Museum also houses one of the state's premiere Print Study Rooms, intended for the scholarly and public examination of the museum's extensive collection of drawings and prints. Classes are also offered inside the Education Gallery, keeping with the museum's history as a teaching facility. Future American Car Rental Orlando clients are also encouraged to explore the museum's Sculpture Garden, which is currently in the primary planning stages. In honor of the recent reopening of the gallery, Cornell has hand crafted three debut exhibits depicting a range of exciting subjects using numerous mediums. These displays including Eye to Eye, a wide-ranging portraiture exhibit chronicling works from 1561 to 2005; Director's Choice: European Art, 1845 to 1901, and Winslow Homer Illustrating War, a compellation of Homer's best civil war works.

Permanent Collections

The Cornell Fine Arts Museum is the most highly recognized institution of its kind in Florida, boasting more than 6,000 permanent works of art - the largest and most distinguishable collections in the entire state! Influential works that are permanently housed within the museum include numerous Italian Renaissance paints like the Madonna and Child Enthroned by Cosimo Rosselli, works by Louis Sonntag and numerous European and American pieces. Museum benefactors including the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Rollins trustee Jeannette Morse Genius, George H. Sullivan and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Myers. Renovations to the new Cornell Fine Arts Museum were paid for by the generation contributions of George and Harriet Cornell, graduates of the Rollins College in 1976. Their generation one million dollar donation has been used to construct not only the gallery, but also to stock it with nearly 700 additional works.

Directions to the Cornell Fine Arts Museum

If you're interested in visiting the Cornell Fine Arts Museum during your upcoming American Car Rental Orlando vacation, simply follow I-4 until you hit the 87th exit onto Fairbanks Avenue. From there, travel east on Fairbanks, turning right onto Park Avenue and then make an immediate left and the three-way stop. This left will put you onto Holt Avenue - the Cornell Fine Arts Museum is located directly at the end of the street. Tons of visitor parking is currently available adjacent to the museum, as well as along Winter Park and at the SunTrust parking facility. American Car Rental Orlando customers are reminded to bring their parking stub into the museum for free parking validation.

To learn more about the Cornell Fine Arts Museum before embarking on your upcoming car rental Orlando vacation, simply contact the museum directly at 1-407-646-2526. The Cornell Fine Arts Museum is a part of Rollins College, one of U.S. News' Best Colleges 2006.