This exhibition featured original documents and rare books and maps from the collection of the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. Spanning five centuries of Caribbean history, the exhibition focused on the British West Indies, Haiti and Cuba from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The exhibition was presented in collaboration with the […]

Al Diaz, a veteran photographer at The Miami Herald, has covered breaking news stories throughout the Americas. During the summer of 1994, he was on the scene in Cuba when thousands of people attempted to leave the country on boats and rafts. Balseros–A Desperate Journey, presented in a series of twenty-two vivid color photographs, captures […]

This exhibition spans nearly three hundred years of Spanish exploration, settlement, and eventual loss of Florida. It consists of several firsts, including a woodblock print depicting the earliest map of North and South America separate from the rest of the world. Exhibition highlights include one of the few first-person accounts by Hernando d’ Escalante Fontaneda, […]

The South Florida Frontier compares and contrast the South Florida frontier with the American West frontier, and examines the lives of the diverse groups of people who interacted with each other in South Florida, including Seminole Indians, Anglo-Americans, African-Americans and African-Bahamian migrants, who, despite their differences, shared many frontier experiences. This exhibition will highlight four […]

This exhibition will present, for the first time, HistoryMiami’s extensive collection of Caribbean maps, prints and photographs, dating from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century . Visions of the Caribbean will illustrate the many dimensions of Caribbean life from the 1500s to the 1900s, such as European exploration and colonization, African slavery, East Indian […]

This exhibition explores the major impact of Trinidadian calypso music on the popular culture of the United States between 1945 and 1960. Rare photographs and promotional graphics that trace calypso in the American record industry, song publishing, nightclub acts, concerts, Broadway shows and Hollywood movies will be on display. Much of the material is from […]

The exhibition displays rare and antique color maps of 18th and 19th century Saint-Domingue ( Hispaniola), from the collection of renowned Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié’s. The detailed maps, adorned with elegant cartouches, show Haiti, her cities, and the surrounding islands. In addition to the antique maps, prints and books from Haiti’s revolutionary era are on […]

This exhibition focused on domestic architecture in Florida during the post-World War II period and featured a reconstructed house, designed by Igor Polevitzky, inside the museum. Visitors moved through the rooms of the house to gain a sense of how people lived 50 years ago. The Florida Home explored developments in the design of single-family […]

This is the first exhibition to explore specific episodes in South Florida’s history involving shipwrecks, heroic sea rescues and other extraordinary dramas around Florida’s coasts, from the period 1550 to 2000. South Florida’s history is intertwined with the water that surrounds it, and many of those who have populated this region over the centuries have […]