Specialty Resources · Miami-Fort Lauderdale

Arts & Culture in Miami-Fort Lauderdale

Miami-Fort Lauderdale's arts institutions run from a Herzog & de Meuron–designed museum built to evoke Biscayne Bay's stilt houses to a Frank Gehry–designed concert campus that projects free symphony concerts onto its own exterior wall.

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Herzog & de Meuron–designed museum with one of the largest contemporary Cuban art collections in the U.S.

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

Pérez Art Museum Miami, designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron and inspired by the stilt houses of Stiltsville off Key Biscayne, holds one of the largest collections of contemporary Cuban art in the United States following developer Jorge M. Pérez's donation of more than 200 works.

Source: Pérez Art Museum Miami

Adjacent aquarium-and-planetarium science museum on Biscayne Bay

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

The Frost Museum of Science, next door to PAMM in downtown Miami's Museum Park, combines a multi-level Gulf Stream aquarium with a planetarium under one roof — a paired science/art museum campus on the bay most downtowns don't have room for.

Source: Frost Science

Frank Gehry–designed campus with free outdoor WALLCAST concerts

New World Symphony & SoundScape Park

The New World Symphony, an orchestral academy for graduate-level musicians, performs from a Frank Gehry–designed Miami Beach campus that projects live concerts onto its own exterior wall for free public viewing in adjacent SoundScape Park — a wall-sized outdoor simulcast most concert halls don't attempt.

Source: New World Symphony

Outdoor street-art museum founded 2009

Wynwood Walls

Wynwood Walls, founded by the late developer Tony Goldman in 2009, turned a cluster of warehouse walls in the Wynwood neighborhood into a curated outdoor museum of large-scale murals by internationally known street artists — credited with anchoring Wynwood's shift from industrial district to arts destination.

Source: Wynwood Walls

Five-venue performing-arts complex, 700,000+ patrons a year

Broward Center for the Performing Arts

The Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, open since 1991, operates five venues on one riverfront campus — including the 2,658-seat Au-Rene Theater — hosting Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet, and touring Broadway productions for more than 700,000 patrons a year.

Source: Broward Center for the Performing Arts

1916 Italian Renaissance–style estate, National Historic Landmark

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, industrialist James Deering's 1916 winter estate on Biscayne Bay, is a National Historic Landmark combining an Italian Renaissance-style villa with ten acres of formal gardens — a scale of historic waterfront estate that survives in few other U.S. coastal cities.

Source: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

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