In Winter Park, Florida, a gem of a museum offers an ideal spring getaway. The Morse Museum of American Art boasts the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), including the artist and designer’s jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass lamps and windows.

One highlight is the Tiffany Chapel baptistery featuring the 11-by-9-foot Field of Lilies window, c. 1892. The Chapel was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for the 1893 world’s fair in Chicago.

Find springtime renewal at the Morse during the museum’s free Easter Weekend Open House, April 18 through April 20.

Public hours for the open house are 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday; 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday; and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Easter Sunday.

In the galleries, visitors can walk among Louis Comfort Tiffany’s leaded-glass windows ablaze with the flowers of spring: tall white lilies, sunny yellow daffodils, and showy pink tulips. From the glass-enclosed gallery housing the Daffodil Terrace that Tiffany created for his Long Island estate Laurelton Hall, visitors will have a view of the museum’s newly landscaped courtyard.

The Daffodil Terrace is also one of several stops on the museum’s new audio tour for the Laurelton Hall exhibition. The tour, accessible by cell phone, continues the Morse’s efforts to help bring Laurelton Hall to life through both the surviving objects and the telling of its story.

Jeannette McKean (1909–89), who founded the museum in 1942, and her husband, Hugh McKean (1908–95), the museum’s director until his death, built the Morse collection over a period of 50 years. The Easter Weekend Open House continues a tradition they established more than 30 years ago. 

The museum is owned and operated by the Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation and receives additional support from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation.  It receives no public funds.