Miami History Museum, Miami, Florida, USA

The museum safeguards and shares Miami stories to foster learning, inspire a sense of area, and cultivate an engaged community.

Miami History Museum: 101 W Flagler St, Miami, Florida, USA

One of the museum’s permanent exhibitions, Tropical Dreams: A People’s History of South Florida, covers 12,000 years of history and examines the development of the region and its people against key historic events, including early Native American settlement, the Spanish Exploration period, and World War II up to the present.

Prehistoric artifacts

Jumping to 1500s

Spanish ruled in Florida

What happened to the Indians?

The Floridian Indians are called Creeks (Seminoles).  They migrated to Florida when the whites occupied their lands in the north.

The Indians were removed from Florida to the Oklahoma area.

The Civil War

History through photography

Homestead Act – giving lands to any American citizens.

Pioneer Life

The railroad comes to Miami

The Royal Plam Hotel

Agriculture in South Florida

Draining the Everglades to make the land for agriculture.  Because of this, only the southmost land of Florida remains as Everglades.

After the railroad, more people came to Miami and made it a city

The US war with Spanish Cuba

The Boom Era of Rolling Twenties in Florida

Florida Land Boom

Boom Time Architecture

Boom Time Tourism

Art Deco Style

In the 1930s, the tourist industry lifted South Florida out of the Depression.

African American Life in a Segregated Society

World War II

Population Growth

Cuban Raft

Community Life

The museum has a second building

Historical objects collected by the museum

The public library is on the same plaza as the museum.