HistoryMiami Museum

HistoryMiami Museum is Miami’s civic memory bank, tracing how a Tequesta landscape of river, bay, and hammock became a port city shaped by railroads, hurricanes, segregation, and successive waves of Caribbean and Latin American migration. Founded in 1940 as the Historical Association of Southern Florida and now housed in the Miami-Dade Cultural Center, it gathers objects and images that anchor big themes—water, commerce, and power—in ordinary lives. For many locals, it is where Miami’s fast-changing present meets a longer, often contested past.