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Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida.
In 2024, the Pérez Art Museum Miami organized José Parlá: Homecoming, the artist's first solo exhibition in his South Florida hometown presenting a site-specific mural and a series of never shown large-scale paintings. The exhibition seeks to replicate Parlá's studio space with Cuban music albums, objects, furniture, paint, and myriad of ...
The center was partly built on the site of a former Sears department store; an Art Deco building constructed in 1929, predating the Art Deco hotels on Ocean Drive. [3] It was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1997 as Sears, Roebuck and Company Department Store. However, by 2001, the only surviving part of the ...
Christmas came early for Miami’s flagship art museum. The Pérez Art Museum Miami received a $25 million donation from Jorge Pérez, the museum’s namesake, art collector and real estate developer.
Pérez Art Museum Miami opened in December 2013 and the Frost Museum of Science opened its doors in May 2017. The Dogs and Cats Walkway and Sculpture Gardens opened officially in January 2023. [5] The Miami Science Barge is a floating marine laboratory and education platform docked in the park. It was opened in 2016 and focuses on three areas ...
Franklin Sirmans [1] (born in New York City ) [2] is an American art critic, editor, writer, curator [1] and has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) [3] since October 2015. [4] His initiatives there include ensuring that PAMM's art program reflects the community in Miami and securing donations.
Jorge M. Pérez (born October 17, 1949) [1] is an Argentine-American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer. [2] He is best known as the chairman and CEO of The Related Group, a Miami-based real estate company that has been well known for building and operating affordable and luxury multifamily apartments across the United States and internationally. [3]
In 1953, the Guild of the Museum of Science was formed, adding volunteers to assist the staff, run the museum store, and conduct tours and outreach programs. In 1960, Dade County built a new 48,000 sq ft (4,500 m 2 ) museum building on a three-acre (12,000 m 2 ) site in an area of Miami called Coconut Grove, on property belonging to the Vizcaya ...