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The Bass is a contemporary art museum in Collins Park, Miami Beach, founded in 1963 on the collection John and Johanna Bass left to the city and opened in 1964. It occupies the former Miami Beach Public Library, a 1930 Art Deco building by Russell Pancoast later extended by Arata Isozaki, and shows changing exhibitions of contemporary art.

The Miami Beach Botanical Garden is a 2.6-acre (1.1 ha) garden opposite the Miami Beach Convention Center, set up by the city in 1962 and relandscaped in 2011 by Raymond Jungles. Its plantings centre on native and tropical species such as palms, cycads, orchids and bromeliads, with a Japanese garden, ponds, fountains and a small mangrove wetland.

The New World Center is a concert hall in South Beach, Miami Beach, designed by Frank Gehry and opened in January 2011 as the home of the New World Symphony, an orchestral academy. The main hall seats 756; outside, selected concerts are projected onto a large wall facing SoundScape Park, designed by West 8. Docents lead weekly tours of the building.

The Art Deco Historic District covers most of South Beach in Miami Beach, between the Atlantic, Sixth Street, Alton Road and Dade Boulevard. Listed as a historic district in 1979, it has about 960 historic buildings, mostly hotels and apartments of the 1920s to early 1940s in Art Deco and Streamline styles, with Ocean Drive along the beach.

The Jewish Museum of Florida covers Jewish life in Florida since 1763. It occupies two restored former synagogues on Washington Avenue in South Beach: the 1936 building at number 301, with Art Deco details, a copper dome and 80 stained-glass windows, and next door the first synagogue of Miami Beach. Its core exhibition is MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida.

Jungle Island is an animal park on Watson Island in Biscayne Bay, between downtown Miami and Miami Beach. It opened in 1936 as Parrot Jungle in what is now Pinecrest, moved here in 2003 and took its present name in 2007. Visitors walk through aviaries, a treewalk village and an Everglades habitat, watch an animal show and can book animal encounters and ziplines.

South Pointe Park is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) public park at the southern tip of South Beach in Miami Beach, beside Government Cut, the channel ships take to and from PortMiami. Opened in 1985 and rebuilt in 2009, it has a pier, a promenade along the beach, lawns, a playground and views of the ships passing through the channel.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is a museum of modern and contemporary art on Biscayne Bay in Maurice A. Ferré Park, downtown Miami. Founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, it moved in 2013 into a building by Herzog & de Meuron with hanging gardens and a shaded bayside terrace, and collects art of the Americas, Europe and Africa.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts complex in downtown Miami designed by César Pelli and opened in 2006. Its two main halls, the Ziff Ballet Opera House and the Knight Concert Hall, face each other across Biscayne Boulevard, and the complex keeps the 1929 Art Deco tower of a former Sears department store.

The Freedom Tower is a 1925 Mediterranean Revival skyscraper on Biscayne Boulevard, designed by Schultze and Weaver for the Miami News. From 1962 to 1974 it housed the Cuban Refugee Center, which received Cubans arriving after the revolution. Now part of Miami Dade College, it holds exhibitions on its history and on Cuban exile.

Bayfront Park is a 13-hectare public park on Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami, redesigned from the 1980s to plans by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi. It has lawns and palm-lined paths, the Mildred and Claude Pepper Fountain, Noguchi's memorial to the Challenger astronauts and an open-air amphitheatre used for concerts and festivals.

The Museum of Ice Cream in Miami is a self-guided interactive exhibition at Miami Worldcenter in downtown Miami, one branch of a chain with sites in several US cities and Singapore. Its themed rooms include a diner, a rainbow tunnel, a carnival, a sensory lab and the Sprinkle Pool, a pool filled with plastic sprinkles, with ice cream served along the way.

The Museum of Miami, called HistoryMiami until its 2026 renaming, is a history museum in the Miami-Dade Cultural Center on West Flagler Street in downtown Miami. Founded in 1940 and affiliated with the Smithsonian, it covers the people and events that shaped South Florida in permanent galleries and changing exhibitions, alongside archives and a folklife centre.

LoanDepot Park is the retractable-roof ballpark of the Miami Marlins baseball team, built on the site of the former Miami Orange Bowl in Little Havana, about 3 km west of downtown Miami. Opened in 2012 as Marlins Park, it seats about 37,000 and hosted the final of the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is the former winter estate of industrialist James Deering on Biscayne Bay in Coconut Grove, Miami. The villa, completed in 1916 in an Italian Renaissance-inspired Mediterranean Revival style, keeps its furnished rooms and is surrounded by formal gardens, native woodland and the historic Vizcaya Village.

The Coral Gables Museum occupies the former Coral Gables Police and Fire Station, a stone building designed by Phineas Paist and completed in 1939 as a Works Progress Administration project. Opened as a museum in 2011, it presents exhibitions on architecture, urban design and the history of Coral Gables.