Pérez Art Museum Miami, Modern art museum in Downtown Miami, United States.
The Pérez Art Museum Miami is an art museum for modern and contemporary art in Downtown Miami, Florida. The building rises over three floors with vertical gardens on the facade and opens through large glass panels toward Biscayne Bay.
The Center for the Fine Arts opened in 1983 in the Miami-Dade Cultural Center, a $24 million complex designed by Philip Johnson at 101 West Flagler Street. Founded as a hall for traveling shows, it began acquiring art only in 1996, when it became the Miami Art Museum. In 2013 it was renamed Pérez Art Museum Miami upon opening its Herzog & de Meuron building at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard.
The name honors Jorge M. Pérez, a real estate developer and art collector who contributed a large share of the funding for the waterfront building. Visitors move through galleries that present works from across the American continent, including Caribbean and Latin American perspectives.
Admission runs until 21:00 on Thursday evenings, while the other days close at 18:00. Students who live in Miami-Dade County enter at no charge.
The building's overhanging canopies and raised terraces are modelled on Stiltsville, the wooden stilt houses off Key Biscayne in Biscayne Bay. French botanist Patrick Blanc designed the hanging vertical gardens, which hold 80 plant species chosen to survive subtropical heat and hurricanes.
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