Join PMoA for Family Day, our annual fun open house! This year’s theme is “Going Global” and the day will be filled with all sorts of fun activities and entertainment from around the world. It’s all FREE! Plus, the Museum will be giving away bags of art supplies to the first 500 school age children [...]

Do you feel like the kids get to have all the fun on Saturdays? Well, Polk Museum of Art is introducing workshops just for adults on the first Saturday of the month. Try your hand at a variety of mediums and techniques while diving a bit deeper into one of the current exhibitions. Each workshop [...]

We’re so excited about the current exhibition at PMoA that we’re hosting two events to celebrate it! Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color is a retrospective of the 70 year career of this amazing artist. Jones was one of the most influential African-American artists of the 20th Century, and she is often associated [...]

Polk Museum of Art will continue its tradition of reduced summer hours again this year. From June 1 – August 31, the Museum will be open Tuesday through Saturday, 10am – 4pm, and will be closed on Sundays, Mondays, and major holidays.
The Museum will continue to be open for FREE on Saturday mornings from 10am [...]

FastFrame continues to celebrate Mayfaire with a 20% off on custom framing services!

Polk Museum of Art’s annual MIDFLORIDA Mayfaire by-the-Lake is just around the corner. This year, the event will take place on May 8 & 9, and it has new hours! In order to allow people to enjoy more time earlier in the day when it’s cooler, the Museum has changed the hours to 9am – [...]

Polk Museum of Art and the Junior League of Greater Lakeland are teaming up to bring you The Art of Fashion on Wednesday, April 21, at 6:30pm. With an informal fashion show by Neiman Marcus of Tampa Bay, it’s a great excuse for a Girl’s Night Out! How can you beat clothes, shoes, accessories, and [...]

Two downtown organizations, Florida Dance Theatre and Polk Museum of Art, are bringing you an evening of dance meeting the visual arts. Stop by PMoA on Saturday, March 27 at 7pm for a performance of dance pieces inspired by the artwork in PMoA’s current exhibition, Joseph Raffael.

The Amazing World of Aviation
The 36th Annual SUN ʼn FUN International Fly-In & Expo
Lakeland, Florida, April 13-18, 2010
In a little more than a month, the skies over Lakeland will begin to receive thousands of aircraft that will convert Lakeland Linder Regional Airport into the busiest airport in North America.
Tuesday, April 13, is “Opening Day” of [...]

Skyward Festival

Downtown Lakeland’s April First Friday Event is partnering with Sun ‘n Fun to bring a new family event to Downtown: Sun ‘n Fun Skyward Festival.
It’s not always easy to connect Downtown to events elsewhere in the city. Sun ‘n Fun was no exception, ’til now.  Ford Heacock, a Downtown business owner and Sun [...]