HistoryMiami
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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HistoryMiami is the premier cultural institution committed to gathering, organizing, preserving and celebrating Miami's history as the unique crossroads of the Americas.
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Neighbourhood: Downtown
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  • Government Center • 2 min walk
  • Government Center • 2 min walk
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Nancy C
Collingswood, NJ28 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2024 • Couples
Located in a surprisingly big and beautiful plaza shared with the Miami-Dade Public Library, HistoryMiami offers several hours of entertainment for the curious traveler. We spent a couple of hours combing through the photographs on the first floor and were fascinated by an exhibit on the influential Whitman family, complete with artifacts, photographs and video narrated by family members. Exhibits on the upper floor guide you through the history of the area in a fascinating array of artifacts with interesting text and video. You can even walk through and old trolley car and view videos in the Art Deco theater. We left for lunch at El Cacique, a local Cuban cafe across the street, then returned to explore the special exhibit on mythic creatures in the South Building. Wonderful experience.
Written 26 February 2024
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Claudio C
Valletta, Malta5 contributions
2.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2023 • Couples
An interesting museum, no doubt, since it is the only comprehensive museum dedicated to the City of Miami. It suffers from imbalance: too much contemporary politics (on low cultural value) and too little early history of Miami (including scant attention to pre-hispanic and early hispanic colonial periods). This is a big shame, because it is clear that current political groups have distorted the otherwise rich hitch history of south Florida and Miami for purposes of propaganda and activism. Not exactly how a city and regional museum should operate, but that is apparently a different standard.
Written 13 January 2024
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Euan M
Macedon, NY3 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Nov 2023 • Family
a very good museum, my wife and were lucky to turn up when there was a festival in the museum's forum and there was also free entry to the museum, sadly had to cut short visit due to a problem with my cell phone.
Written 19 November 2023
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Nicole F
Vero Beach, FL224 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Sept 2023 • Family
Saturday, September 9th, 2023 12:00pm-1:00pm
3 adults and 1 nine year old

Park at Cultural Center Garage, museum validates for $5

Register online or on phone then scan barcode to get in

***2nd Saturday of each month is free admission between 10am-5pm***

Founded in 1940, largest history museum in the State of Florida with 4 galleries, up to 3 exhibits, archives and research center, folklife center, education center, and city tours program.

2nd & 3rd floors
One hour is good

Written 9 September 2023
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Mark cloherty
5 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2023
Miami has a fascinating history, the museum is good but is a bit limited. One floor was closed when we visited and there wasn't much on Miami history in the 70s, 80s and 90's. That was a real shame. Best option is to travel there by train, parking is very difficult in that area of downtown. There are some fun things to do for kids, we took our children and they enjoyed it, like the chalk boards
Written 16 March 2023
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Taylor B
Chicago, IL8,761 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2023
HistoryMiami Museum, formerly known as the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, is the largest history museum and the second oldest cultural institution in the Sunshine State. Located at 101 West Flagler Street, it was founded in 1940 and has become the official repository for all archaeological material recovered in Miami-Dade County. Housed in the Miami-Dade Cultural Plaza, the 70,000-square-foot museum is home to more than 1 million historic images and 30,000 three-dimensional artifacts, including a 1920s trolley car, gold and silver recovered from 17th and 18th century shipwrecks, artifacts from Pan American World Airways and rafts that brought refugees to Miami. The facility contains four permanent galleries and up to three traveling exhibits, Archives and Research Center, the South Florida Folklife Center, the Education Center and the City Tours program. Each February, the museum hosts the annual Miami International Map Fair, the largest map fair in the Western Hemisphere. One of the museum's most interesting exhibits is Tropical Dreams: A People's History of South Florida, which covers 12,000 years of history and examines the development of the region and its people against key historic events, including early Native American settlement, the Spanish exploration period and World War II up to the present. Another exhibit of particularly local interest is Operation Pedro Pan: The Cuban Children's Exodus, which explores the largest recorded child refuge in the Western Hemisphere through historic images, oral histories, letters and photographs.
Written 17 February 2023
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Tourist598156
15 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2023 • Friends
The museum has greatly improved since it expanded into the South building (formerly the Miami Art Museum). I highly recommend attending one of the guided weekend tours of its permanent collections, then visiting the exhibits in the South building. Through Feb. 12 it is hosting an outstanding exhibit (curated by the NY Historical Society) entitled “Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow.” The museum is accessible by metro rail; it validates parking at the cultural center garage on 2d Ave. The building is part of a complex that was designed by Phillip Johnson.
Written 29 January 2023
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Alexandra T
Murrieta, CA1,916 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2023
We paid our admission and looked for the captions to the photos in the lobby. There was no brochure in English and the QR code went nowhere. So I got to practice my Spanish! The restrooms are upstairs and the exhibits are okay, but not too detailed.
Written 19 January 2023
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Diane K
Venice, FL4,053 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2023 • Couples
There are two buildings of exhibits. If you are mainly interested in learning about the area - I suggest you go to the second building first. Also if you park at the multilevel parking garage across the street from the museum you can have your ticket stamped and only pay $5.
Written 11 January 2023
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xcschlr
Milwaukee, WI264 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
July 2022
We visited this museum because other places that seem more interesting to us are outdoors and would expose us to severe summer heat, but we did learn a lot about the history of Miami.
Written 24 August 2022
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