Museum of Miami
Two-million-photograph county history collection, from a 1920s trolley to shipwreck salvage.
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This guide to the Museum of Miami follows its start in nineteen forty, when a handful of worried Miamians began stashing photographs and odds and ends into a University of Miami storage cabinet, and its decades-long growth into HistoryMiami inside the Miami-Dade Cultural Center. It traces the museum's unusual decision, after eighty-six years, to question its own name, sending staff out to neighborhoods like Homestead, Overtown, and Liberty City to listen to what the word 'history' meant to people who rarely visited downtown. The museum's chief executive described what residents kept telling them, again and again, about that one word.
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