MOCA Jacksonville

MOCA Jacksonville is the downtown contemporary-art museum at 333 North Laura Street, beside James Weldon Johnson Park and next door to the Main Library. Visit Jacksonville describes it as a cultural resource of the University of North Florida and one of the Southeast’s larger contemporary institutions, in the old Western Union building since 2003, with a permanent collection approaching 1,000 works and a Project Atrium series that uses the tall Haskell gallery. This page is that Laura Street museum, not the Cummer in Riverside and not the closed MOSH Southbank building. Google’s operational listing is titled MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Art), Jacksonville, with a stored snapshot of 4.4 from 872 reviews — one review above the older 871-count card. That is a solid, ordinary-positive museum score. No Yelp card is stored. Phone on the Places card is (904) 620-1214. Google’s hours snapshot is Monday closed, Tuesday through Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Visit Jacksonville’s directory has shown a similar weekday window. Hours change for Art Walk and special exhibitions. Google marks wheelchair parking, a wheelchair entrance, and a wheelchair restroom. Stay Safe Jax did not inspect every gallery floor. Visit Jacksonville’s family guide has listed adult admission around $10, with discounts for seniors, military, youth, and free entry for young children and UNF or FSCJ students — prices move, so treat that as a visitor-bureau snapshot. The current civic story is public art on the sidewalk. The Florida Times-Union reported in April 2026 that crews installed Frank Stella’s three-story Jacksonville Stacked Stars on Laura Street in front of MOCA. The sculpture had stood in the atrium for the museum’s 2024 centennial and is described as Stella’s last major work before his 2024 death. The city contributed $500,000 toward purchase and installation, about 10 percent of the cost, with the rest from private gifts. Resident News and Arbus Magazine covered the same outdoor move as a downtown landmark, free to see without a ticket. That is sourced civic news, not a controversy. Open flags stay at 0. Residents looking for downtown art should use this listing for the correct Laura Street address, stored Google 4.4, Tuesday–Sunday hours, and the Stella sculpture outside. It is not the Main Library at 303 N Laura Street, even though the two buildings share a block.