101
West Flagler Street, Miami
(305) 375-3000
Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday-Friday: 10 am- 5 pm
Thursday: Open until 9 pm
Saturday-Sunday Noon - 5 pm
Admission/fees
Adult: $5
Student:$2.50
Senior: $2.50
Free for children under 12
Tuesday: Visitors admitted for contribution
Thursday 5-9 pm.: Free admission
Second Saturday: Free admission
Combined tickets for admission to Miami Art Museum
and the Historic Museum
are $6 per person.
This user-friendly gallery in downtown Miami
has emphasized art from the Western Hemisphere since World
War II. Formerly the Center for the Fine Arts, a
space solely for traveling exhibitions, the Miami
Art Museum was established 0n 1985, 10 years after
the Center's founding.
Realizing that Miami had
matured into a vibrant international city, the
museum's trustees decided in 1994 that a central
museum with a permanent collection was needed to
make it a truly great city. A community-wide
long-range planning process was launched, with 200
citizens joining in to
formulate a vision for the future. In 1996 the
Center was re-named The Miami Art Museum of Dade
County.
Housed in the Metro-Dade Cultural
Center, the museum still features a wide range
of changing exhibitions from
around the world, as it works to build a permanent collection.
The comfortable, large and airy gallery with exhibits on
two floors is one of Miami-Dade County's largest
museums.
Since 1996 the museum has had several
exhibits called New Acquisitions Dream Collection,
which
were intended to telegraph the museum's new mission
to develop a permanent collection. The works, by
artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Willem
de Kooning, show the caliber of artwork the museum
is looking for in
its permanent collection. Currently, the growing collection
includes works by Robert Rauchenberg,
Helen Frankenthaler, and Leonora Carrington.
The Miami Art Museum shares the Cultural Center with
the Historical Museum of Southern Florida and the
Miami-Dade Public Library. Parking at the
six-floor Cultural Center Garage is $2.40 when your
parking ticket is stamped at the museum's admission
desk.
