David M.
Yelp
I love my visits to the Morse Museum, and I have visited many times. For students and aficionados of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, in particular, it is a destination museum and well worth a visit to Central Florida. For other devotees of the arts with less specific interests, it is a local gem worth savoring.
To state the obvious, Florida, in general, and the American South as a whole, is not a cultural hotbed, as compared to major cities in the Northeast Corridor, but Orlando is not entirely a cultural wasteland. To celebrate visual artists, we have the Orlando Museum of Art, the Menello Museum of American Art, and the Polacek Museum, but the Morse is where I go when I really want to emotionally bathe in visual arts. Its collection is not huge, but it is particularly well curated and I always find something new in its temporary exhibits.
The Morse has an excellent website that can describe its current exhibits so I direct you to that for current details, but two permanent exhibits bear mention here. First, The Morse worked with the Tiffany estate and heirs to preserve much of Laurelton Hall, Tiffany's Long Island home which burned in the 1950's. It provides a great picture into the home of the artist and is a wonderful time capsule. Second, a chapel that Tiffany designed for the 1893 World's Fair has been re-assembled fully within the Morse -- there may not be a better place for quiet meditation in any building in Orlando.
I have no real criticism of the Morse but it is regrettable that the space is so small. More space would thin out the crowds during peak periods and would allow for more extensive growth of its collection. That being said, space is hard to come by in downtown Winter Park, and space costs money. I am sure that in time, the Morse will have an opportunity to grow.