Art & Culture in Miami

Street art and design

Wynwood is the heart of Miami's art scene: former warehouses covered in murals around the Wynwood Walls, galleries, breweries and cafés. Tours go on foot, by golf cart or buggy, by Segway or with a street artist as your guide, and some combine the murals with food tastings or a spray-painting workshop. Next door, the Design District mixes luxury boutiques with public art and architecture, and Little River is the newer creative quarter.

Art Basel Miami Beach in early December turns the whole city into an art fair, with dozens of satellite fairs and new murals — the busiest and most expensive week of the year.

Art Deco and Cuban Miami

South Beach has one of the largest collections of Art Deco buildings in the world: pastel hotels from the 1930s with neon signs, porthole windows and terrazzo floors. Guided walks explain the style and the preservation battle that saved it, and the Wolfsonian museum covers the design of the era.

In Little Havana, Calle Ocho is the centre of Cuban Miami: a cigar factory where rollers work by hand, Domino Park, Cuban coffee from a street window and live music. Food and culture tours taste the classics, from the Cuban sandwich to guava pastries.

Museums

For art indoors, PAMM on the bay shows modern and contemporary art, Superblue has immersive installations, Vizcaya pairs a historic villa with its gardens, and the Freedom Tower tells the story of the Cuban exiles. Many tours here run in Spanish or French as well as English.