In 1984, the association opened an expanded Historical Museum at the Miami-Dade Cultural Center in downtown Miami. This 40,000-square-foot facility includes a permanent exhibition that traces the history of South Florida and the Caribbean, a temporary exhibition gallery that features several new exhibitions each year, a theater and classroom area for variety of educational programs, and storage areas for the museum's extensive collections of artifacts and archival materials, including books, manuscripts, maps and more than one million photographs related to the region. In recent year, the Historical Museum has directed increasing attention to Miami's role as a gateway of the Americas. To explore Miami's multifaceted connections with the Caribbean and Latin America, a new program series, Miami: The Gateway City, was introduced in Spring 1999. The objective of the 12-month series is to use the museum as a central forum for public dialogue about current issues facing Miami and as a space for related artistic presentations.
Gail Anderson (author / Museum Management Consultants), Adrienne Horn (author / Museum Management Consultants), and American Association for State and Local History
Format:
Leaflet
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
American Association for State and Local History
Location:
City Planning & Landscape Architecture Reference and Resource Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 29; Folder: 27