Daytona Beach Museum of Arts & Sciences (2/14/2025)

Friday, February 14, 2025

The Museum of Arts & Science/MOAS is located in Daytona Beach, FL.

Mock-up of the Exploration Extra-Vehicular
Mobility Unit/xEMU, seen in the lobby
of the Lohman Family Planetarium

Root Family Museum:

Copy of the historical marker citing the birthplace of
the Coca-Cola bottle at the Root Glass Company

The Root family has the largest collection of Coca-Cola
memorabilia in the world

The cocao tree pod was the inspiration
for the 1915 Coca-Cola bottle

Bottles of different bottling companies,
such as Cleveland and Chicago

1948 Lincoln Continental Mark 1 was used by Chapman and
Susan Root on their honeymoon traveling along Route 66

1925 Ford Model TT Coca-Cola Route Truck

Polarstil 3DL distilled water machine (1915)
and carbonating machine (1912)

Jacobs 160 "Mailbox" Coca-Cola vending
machine (c 1948), Glascock "Junior"
Coca-Cola cooler (1938), and Vendo V-83
Coca-Cola vending machine (c 1950)

The Root family also collected teddy bears

Medium-size bears

The smallest bears are displayed in a large dollhouse

Part of the quilt collection

One of two train cars owned by the Root family;
the Dell Rapids Milwaukee Hiawatha sky-top lounge car
(1948) was purchased by the family in 1970 and restored

Weaponry:

Ivory-inlaid Crossbow (late 17C, German)

Prehistory of Florida:

Diorama with the giant ground sloth from 130,000 years ago

Tamiko with the giant ground sloth, the most
complete such skeleton in the world that was
discovered just three miles south of MOAS

African Art:

Helmet Mask (Igbo of Nigeria)

Ashante gold ritual ornaments cast by the
lost wax process since as early as 8C

Cuban Foundation Museum:

The Cup of Coffee (c 1940, by Lorenzo Romero Arciaga)

Bust (20C, by Juan José Sicre) of the
Cuban poet José Julian Martí

Visions of Florida: The Photographic Art of Clyde Butcher:

Loxahatchee River #1 (1991)

Seven Cabbage Cut (1991)

Fizzing with Nostalgia: Coca-Cola Toys:

Biplane made from Coca-Cola cans

Kenneth Worcester Dow and Mary Mohan Dow Gallery of American Art:

Classical Teapot with Melon Reeded Body (c 1800,
by John Ewan & Company, Charleston, SC)

Portrait of George Washington (c 1870,
attributed to William Matthew Prior using
verre églomisé/reverse painting on glass

Court Cupboard (17C, by
Thomas Dennis of Ipswich, MA)

Anderson C Bouchelle Study Center and Gallery for International Decorative Arts:

Portsigar/Cigar Box (c 1900, by Khliebnikov, Moscow, Russia)

Pair of Uranium Glass Mantle Jars
(c 1840, from England)

Fruit Bowl (c 1905, by T G Hawkes & Company, Corning, NY)

Murat Candelabra (early 19C, from France)
and in background a Tiffany-style favrile
glass lamp (early 20C, from United States)

Sauceboat in the form of a paper nautilus with
a plate in the form of a sunray (sunrise?) tellin
(c 1820, by Wedgwood Pottery Company, England)

Tide Pool: Exploring Coastal Communities:

Nautilus shell

Abundance (2017, by Robin Sathoff)