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Culture

Arts & Culture in Miami

All of Arts & Culture

Art museums, Wynwood, Art Deco and the concert halls: PAMM on the bay, the Wynwood Walls, the Art Deco District and the city’s art cinemas.

Pérez Art Museum Miami in Museum ParkThe back storyArt, architecture & cultureArt Deco, PAMM, Wynwood and Art BaselMurals at the Wynwood WallsArts & CultureStreet art & muralsWynwood WallsThe Art Deco Welcome Center on Ocean DriveArts & CultureArt Deco & architectureMiami Beach’s Art Deco District
  1. Arts & CultureFilmThe art cinemas

Our advice

Walk the Deco before the heat

Take the guided walk in the morning before the heat, then come back to Ocean Drive after dark to see the neon. Art Deco and MiMo

History

History & heritage

How the Tequesta’s bay became a railroad town in 1896, a boom-time resort of Art Deco hotels and, after 1959, the bilingual capital of Cuban and Latin American America.

Domino players at Máximo Gómez Park in Little HavanaHistory & heritageFrom the Miami Circle to the Magic City: Miami’s heritageTequesta, the railroad and the Cuban cityArt Deco hotels on Ocean Drive in the Miami Beach Architectural DistrictThe back storyArt Deco and MiMo: how Miami Beach saved its architectureThe best way to understand South Beach is to look up: at the eyebrows…The bronze arm of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach rising from its lily pondRemembranceHolocaust Memorial Miami BeachA bronze arm rising from a lily pond, dedicated in 1990

Feature: Miami and Grand Theft Auto VI

GTA VI returns to Vice City on 19 November 2026. Here is the real Miami behind it: the neon of Ocean Drive and the skyline over the bay.

South Beach, Miami BeachNeighbourhood guideOcean Drive & South BeachThe real neonThe towers of Brickell beside Biscayne BayNeighbourhood guideBrickell & DowntownThe skyline over the bay

Areas

Miami by neighbourhood

From Ocean Drive to Key Biscayne, each area has its own guide: Miami Beach is its own city across the bay, and Little Havana, Wynwood and Coconut Grove each have their own pace.

The Fontainebleau on Mid-Beach from the airNeighbourhood guideMid-Beach & North BeachGrand hotels and Bal HarbourNeighbourhood guideWynwoodMurals, coffee and collectionsThe Miami Design DistrictNeighbourhood guideDesign DistrictFlagships and contemporary artNeighbourhood guideLittle HavanaCalle Ocho and cafecitoA leafy street in Coconut GroveNeighbourhood guideCoconut GroveThe bayside village

Little Havana

Start with a cafecito on Calle Ocho, watch the domino players at Máximo Gómez Park, then walk Ocean Drive in the evening, when the Art Deco hotels light up in neon.

  1. Neighbourhood guideCoral GablesThe Biltmore and the Venetian Pool
  2. Neighbourhood guideKey BiscayneBeaches and a lighthouse

Day trips

Beyond Miami

Up the coast to Fort Lauderdale, down the Keys to Key West, across to Naples on the Gulf, and out to the Everglades.

The corner of Front and Duval Streets in Key WestBeyond MiamiKey West & the KeysSunset, Hemingway and Duval StreetThe Fort Lauderdale shore from the jetties at Port EvergladesBeyond MiamiFort LauderdaleThe beach, Las Olas and MAASSSunset at the Naples PierBeyond MiamiNaplesGulf beaches and sunsetsA pond on the Anhinga Trail, Everglades National ParkBeyond MiamiThe EvergladesAbout an hour from downtownThe Seven Mile Bridge carrying the Overseas Highway across the Florida KeysBeyond MiamiThe Keys by roadThe Overseas Highway

Plan your trip

Entry and money, getting here and around by Brightline and the Metromover, beach safety, hurricane season and medical care.

Miami International Airport from the airBefore you goMiami essentialsEntry, tipping, beach safetyA Metromover car at Bayfront Park station, downtown MiamiGetting aroundAirports, rail and the MetromoverMIA, FLL, BrightlineThe Jackson Memorial Hospital campus from the airHealthHospitalsEmergency: call 911

In depth

Miami in depth: Art Deco, Cuban Miami and the Magic City

Art Deco and MiMo, Cuban Miami, the city on screen and wild Miami’s manatees, dolphins and turtles: the stories behind the city.

A golden roast turkey, stuffed and resting on a carving boardCalle OchoChristmas in MiamiNochebuena’s roast pork and the Three Kings ParadeThe old railroad bridge at Bahia Honda State Park on the Overseas Highway, Florida KeysRoad tripsThe Atlantic Coast road trip, New York to Key WestFourteen days down the coast to the KeysMurals wrapped around a street corner in WynwoodThe back storyWynwood: from garment district to open-air gallerySewing machines, empty warehouses and a bet on art that painted a neighbourhood

The road south

Island-hopping by road: the Overseas Highway carries US 1 across the Florida Keys to Key West, over a chain of bridges with the sea on both sides. If time is short, drive as far as Islamorada for lunch by the water and turn back.

  1. The back storyArt Basel Miami Beach: how a Swiss fair changed MiamiFrom a Basel experiment in 1970 to the art world’s December week by the sea
  2. The back storyMiami’s music year: Music Week, Ultra and the festivalsThe March week when the dance music world comes to town, and the festivals around it
  3. The back storyCuban MiamiCalle Ocho and the cafecito

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