Visitor center
Art Deco Welcome Center
1001 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA
Visitor hub and museum inside a pastel Art Deco landmark, gateway to South Beach's historic hotel district.
This guide to the Art Deco Welcome Center in Miami Beach follows Barbara Baer Capitman, a grandmother who moved here in 1973 and found hundreds of pastel 1920s and 30s hotels written off as eyesores. It traces her 1976 founding of the Miami Design Preservation League, the candlelight vigils and standoffs with wrecking crews, and the 1980 stunt of bringing Andy Warhol through the district on camera. Look for the curved corners, porthole windows, and neon signs she fought to keep standing along Ocean Drive.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.