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Wells` Built Museum - Orlando |
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Orlando is well known for its attractions of theme parks, sunny weather and extravagant holiday resorts. However this much loved holiday destination is also rich in history and art, and taking centre stage are the plethora of museums from African American artefacts to model trains. The museums are so diverse that adults, kids and even serious art lovers will be enthralled. Favourites consist of the informative Orlando Science Centre, Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, the colourful American and African Art and History Museum, Mannello Museum of American Art, the Orlando Museum of Art, the wonderful Train Museum and the Historic Waterhouse Residence which offers a glimpse of a past lifestyle. Enjoy a wonderful family learning experience in universal Orlando.
Wells’ Built Museum
Jazz fans will love this museum displaying colourful artefacts from Orlando’s historic African American community together with a unique collection of historic African Art (on loan from private collections). Originally opened in 1929 as the Wells’Built Hotel by Dr William Monroe Wells the museum was a hotel opened next to the South Asian Street Casino in order to house some of the artists that performed there. Jazz greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, Ivory Joe Hunter etc were past guests. The essence of the hotels lively past was captured for your enjoyment when the hotel was converted to the Wells’Built Museum in 2001.
The museum is closed Saturday to Sunday, admission tickets must be purchased.
Address:
Street, Orlando, 32801, Florida (FL), USA
Tel: +1 407 245 7535 |
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