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The Museum of Discovery and Science is a science museum in downtown Fort Lauderdale, at its present site since 1992. Its exhibits cover the Everglades, prehistoric Florida, storms and water, with live animals such as river otters, plus flight simulators and an IMAX theatre. The EcoDiscovery Center wing, opened in 2011, doubled the exhibit space.

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is an art museum on Las Olas Boulevard, founded in 1958 as the Fort Lauderdale Art Center and now part of Nova Southeastern University. Its 1986 building by Edward Larrabee Barnes shows a collection of over 7,500 works, including ceramics and prints by Picasso, Latin American and Cuban art and works of the CoBrA movement.

Las Olas Boulevard is an east–west street in Fort Lauderdale that runs from the downtown business district to State Road A1A at the beach. Its central section, known simply as Las Olas, is lined with low-rise shops, galleries, bars and restaurants; further east it crosses the Intracoastal Waterway and the residential isles.

Stranahan House is the oldest surviving building in Broward County, on the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Built in 1901 as Frank Stranahan's trading post, where Seminole families came to trade, it became the home of Frank and Ivy Stranahan in 1906. Now a historic house museum, it is shown by docents with period furnishings.

Bonnet House is a historic house museum on a 35-acre estate between the beach and the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale. Artist Frederic Clay Bartlett built the plantation-style house in the 1920s on land given to him and his wife Helen in 1919; his second wife Evelyn wintered there until 1997. Visitors see the furnished rooms, art and gardens.

Fort Lauderdale Beach is the Atlantic Ocean beach of Fort Lauderdale, on the barrier island east of the Intracoastal Waterway. State Road A1A and a seaside promenade run along the sand, with hotels and restaurants on the landward side; Las Olas Boulevard reaches the beach at its eastern end.