Upcoming Exhibitions

Striking Poses : Portrait Photography from the Permanent Collection

September 17, 2024 -  January 26, 2025

After photography’s inception in the early 1800s, the camera quickly became a desirable mechanism for portrait making, and humans an endlessly fascinating subject on which to focus the lens. (more…)

Transformational Gifts : Recent Acquisitions (2019–2024)

October 19, 2024 -  February 2, 2025

Gifts of art to the Appleton enrich the cultural and educational landscape of our community. Most of the Appleton’s encyclopedic collection is comprised of gifts, including 6,000 works added over the last five years alone. Acquisitional gifts come to us from a variety of sources, beginning with Arthur I. Appleton, and since then, from institutions all the way to community members and collectors like yourself. (more…)

A Dickens Christmas : The Urban Family's Holiday Exhibition

November 9, 2024 -  January 12, 2025

One of Ocala's most beloved holiday traditions is back, adorning the first floor of the museum in full holiday cheer. “A Dickens Christmas: The Urban Family’s Holiday Exhibition” is the private collection of Dr. Paul and Joyce Urban and their daughters Katie, Kristie, Kassie and Karlie, who have lived in Ocala since 1989. (more…)

Sponsored by the Urban Family.

What If Eye : Fifty Years of Exploration with Ummarid Eitharong

February 22 -  August 3, 2025

As a young man visiting the Kennedy Space Center with a friend, Ummarid “Tony” Eitharong remarked of an impressive wall mural, “I bet I could draw that.” Winning that bet was the genesis of a long and successful career in art. (more…)