The Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, also known as The Hurston, is an art museum in Eatonville, Florida. The Hurston is named after Zora Neale Hurston, an African-American writer, folklore, and anthropologist who moved to Eatonville at a young age and whose father became mayor of Eatonville in 1897. "Its mission is to provide a place "in the heart of the community" where the public can view the work of artists of African descent, who live on the Continent and/or in the Diaspora".