Several on-campus sites provide students with opportunities for research and training in museum work.

The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art is the largest university art museum in the Southeast. The Harn presents innovative programming and an ambitious changing exhibition schedule. For the past several years the Association of Art Museum Directors has ranked the Harn among the top ten university art museums in the country. Its primary collections are in Modern and Contemporary American, African, Asian, and Pre-Columbian art.

The Florida Museum of Natural History is one of the largest natural history museums in the United States, with historic, ethnologic, and natural history collections, an exceptional research staff, and twenty-eight curators.

Both the Harn Museum and the Museum of Natural History hire students with appropriate backgrounds and interests in museum work and train others in their internship and volunteer programs. A number of students have been afforded the opportunity to curate, to research, or to work in other capacities in the development and installation of exhibitions at the museums.

The University Gallery focuses on contemporary art and installations and provides numerous temporary exhibitions each year. In addition to its large changing exhibition space in the School of Art and Art History, it is also in charge of two satellite spaces. The Focus Gallery features exhibitions that highlight the teaching programs of the Department of Art. The Grinter Gallery highlights the cultures and arts of Latin America and Africa and provides a venue for exhibitions of an international nature. Graduate assistants appointed by the Museum Studies program fill most of the positions in the University Galleries system.