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About the Museum:
HistoryMiami Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate located in downtown Miami, safeguards and shares Miami stories to foster learning, inspire a sense of place, and cultivate an engaged community. We accomplish this through education, collections, research, exhibitions, publications, and City Tours. Now celebrating our 80th anniversary, the museum is a 70,000-square-foot facility and home to more than two million historical images and 30,000 three-dimensional artifacts, including a 1920s trolley car, artifacts from Pan American World Airways, and rafts that brought refugees to Miami.

For media inquiries about the Museum, please contact our Sr. Director of Marketing and Communications, Michele Reese Granger, at mreese@historymiami.org or 305-375-1657.

HISTORYMIAMI MUSEUM TO HOST LARGEST MAP FAIR IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE FOR 23RD YEAR

MIAMI – The Miami International Map Fair, the longest continuously running map fair in the world, will return to HistoryMiami Museum February 5-7, 2016. Over 40 leading map dealers will gather from across the globe bringing an unparalleled selection of original antique maps, charts, town plans, and atlases. Thousands of maps from the 16th century to present day, and ranging […]

HISTORYMIAMI MUSEUM: THE DEFINITIVE VENUE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY DURING MIAMI’S ART BASEL WEEK 2015

MIAMI – HistoryMiami Museum will capture the spirit of the magic city during Art Basel Week while hosting one of the most popular art events in recent years: the Miami Street Photography Festival. The festival and exhibitions are part of HistoryMiami’s newly-established Center for Photography, created as a part of a Knight Arts Challenge grant, and will feature world-class […]

HISTORYMIAMI TO TELL THE STORY OF THE LARGEST EXODUS OF CHILDREN IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

MIAMI – Imagine leaving your homeland as a child, without your parents, to live in a foreign country. Will you ever return home? Will you ever see your parents again? What does your future hold? That was the reality for the more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban boys and girls who left their homeland to come to […]

RARE DISCOVERY MADE AT HISTORYMIAMI’S AUDUBON EXHIBITION

MIAMI – HistoryMiami is excited to announce a rare discovery that was made during its nationally acclaimed exhibition, The Complete Audubon: The Birds of America, which is currently on view. An Audubon and natural history prints dealer from Alexandria, Virginia, discovered that the museum’s signed edition of the Ornithological Biography was a personal gift from John James Audubon to […]

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