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Explore different aspects of this unique tropical region through exhibitions on Southern Florida and the Caribbean.
Permanent Exhibition
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Tropical Dreams
A People's History of South Florida
Tropical Dreams explores South Florida history from prehistoric times to the present. Throughout the ages, the story has been characterized by arrivals—the immigration of people from many different places and cultures into the region—and by adaptation to the region's unique subtropical environment.
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Current Exhibitions
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Native Arts of the Northwest Coast
The Paul and Joan Gluck Collection
February 23 through June 1, 2008
This exhibition is the first public display of the Paul & Joan Gluck Collection of Native arts from the Northwest Coast. Over the past 20 years, the Miami-based Glucks have assembled more than 200 art pieces to create one of the finest private Northwest Coast collections in the world.
Pieces range from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries and include totem poles, ritual masks, pipes, drums, rattles, jewelry, blankets, baskets, bowls and fishing hooks.
Among the many prominent artists featured are Henry Hunt (Kwakwaka’wakw), Mary Ebbets Hunt (Tlingit), Dempsey Bob (Tlingit), Bill Reid (Haida), Robert Davidson (Haida), Stan Wamiss (Kwakwaka’wakw) and Terry Starr (Tsimshian).
Organized by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
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Seminole Arts from Florida Collections
February 23 through June 1, 2008
Experience masterpieces of Seminole art from the Historical Museum of Southern Florida and several other Florida museums. See patchwork, beadwork, silverwork, baskets and dolls made by Seminole artists from the nineteenth century to the present. Learn how art forms have helped the Seminoles to adapt to the Everglades environment and to express their cultural identity in relation to outsiders.
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Future Exhibitions
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Interama
Miami and the Pan-American Dream
June 21, 2008, through January 25, 2009
Walk into a re-creation of Interama—Miami’s futuristic fair of the Americas from the 1960s. Under development for decades, Interama was never built, but captured the imagination of planners, architects and public officials during an era when Miami increasingly perceived itself as a hemispheric crossroads.
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Anne Mergen: Florida Cartoons
June 21, 2008, through September 4, 2008
Ann Mergen was one of the first women in the United States to break into the male-dominated field of cartoon artistry. Published in the Miami News, her work brought critical awareness to issues that affected Miami and all of Florida and eventually garnered national attention. On display will be over two dozen of Mergen’s original cartoon renderings from the 1940s and 1950s.
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Necropolis Cristobal Colon
Photographs by Raul L. Rodriguez, A.I.A.
September 25, 2008, through January 25, 2009
Necropolis Cristobal Colon , in Havana, Cuba, is probably the largest and most spectacular cemetery in the Western Hemisphere.
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