Dec. 13 – Swirl & Stroll – Holiday Glow Edition

Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:00 am to 1:00 pm A guided pour, a festive glow! This limited Holiday Glow Edition brings seasonal scents, color and creativity together for a joyful celebration of light. A sensational candle art experience where memories glow! Immerse yourself in the sensational world of candle making

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Meet the Herd

By Louise Irvine The elephants are here! The Great Elephant Migration has arrived in Miami Beach in time for Art Week and they look amazing! The life-size sculptures in this public art installation have taken up residence on the beach between 36th and 37th Streets and will be there until

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Firing the Imagination – Audio Tour

One of the highlights of the new Hollywood museum is an audio tour of the key exhibits narrated by Louise Irvine, our Executive Director and Curator. When you plan your visit to WMODA, make sure your cell phone is fully charged and you bring your headphones or earbuds for the

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Here Be Dragons!

Have fun with our new scavenger hunt when you visit WMODA in Hollywood. You will be searching for all kinds of dragons lurking in their lairs around the museum’s ceramic galleries. On your quest, you will discover more about Chinese Imperial dragons, ferocious winged dragons from Europe and dragonslayers rescuing

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Unity is Here!

By Louise Irvine Chelsea Rousso’s Unity in the Community installation has returned to WMODA for our reopening. Chelsea has been busy during the last year developing her exciting public art project. Since September, she has been exhibiting at Plunge Beach Resort and has recently unveiled a spectacular new wall of

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Elephant Safari

By Louise Irvine Our new Elephant Safari exhibition at WMODA features luxurious home furnishings created by the Ardmore Design Studio. For over a decade, Ardmore has been reimagining motifs from their iconic ceramics into textiles and wall coverings to transform our living spaces. Celebrate the beauty of the natural world

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Doulton Pub Crawl

By Louise Irvine Get into the festive holiday spirit with our Cheers exhibition featuring Royal Doulton character jugs. Many of them are enjoying a glass of ale or a nip of whisky as a winter warmer. Toby jugs originated in British pubs at the end of the 18th century and

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Volunteer at WMODA

As we prepare for the reopening of WMODA, we are seeking volunteers to join our dedicated museum team. We need help welcoming visitors to our new Hollywood location and enhancing their experience in the exhibition galleries. We have a new audio tour to guide guests through the collections on display

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Paintings on Pottery

By Louise Irvine John Eyre was one of the stars of Doulton’s Lambeth Studio, creating stunning exhibition vases and tile murals for the world’s fairs. He taught pottery painting to young women and was also a very talented painter and book illustrator. Towards the end of his career, he produced

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Pachyderms in Peril

By Louise Irvine Elephants have been our focus recently as we prepare for our upcoming WMODA exhibition and the arrival of the Great Elephant Migration in Miami Beach. However, we must not forget the other pachyderm in peril, the magnificent rhinoceros. It is estimated that poachers kill one rhino every

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