History Miami Museum
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History Miami Museum

Miami, Florida

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Miami's story is wilder than most cities twice its age — Tequesta Indians, Spanish explorers, wreckers, railroad tycoons, rum runners, Cold War exiles, cocaine cowboys. This museum tells all of it with surprising depth and honesty. The permanent exhibition on South Florida's multicultural history is the best crash course on why this city is the way it is.

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The South Florida Folklife Collection — maps, oral histories, and photographs that reveal a Miami most visitors never imagined.

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