Jewish Museum of Florida
The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU (JMOF-FIU), founded in 1995, is the sole museum dedicated to portraying the narrative of more than 250 years of Jewish history, arts, and culture in Florida, with a growing collection of over 100,000 pieces. It is located at 301 Washington Avenue in South Beach's popular SoFi district. The Museum is located in two historically restored structures that were previously synagogues for Miami Beach's first Jewish congregation. The first synagogue was constructed in 1929, while the second, constructed in 1936, was designed by Art Deco architect Henry Hohauser and contains 80 stained-glass windows, a copper dome, and a marble bimah. The Bess Myerson Gallery, named for former Miss America Bess Myerson, connects the two buildings.
JMOF joined FIU in 2012, establishing a historic alliance that combines the Museum's and FIU's resources to usher in a new era of multidisciplinary teaching and research. Through the prism of the growing immigration experience of Jews in Florida, JMOF-FIU acts as a venue for broad audiences to promote tolerance, increase global understanding, and develop linkages to Jewish culture, history, arts, and modern civic life. JMOF-FIU has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums for its technique for research, collecting, conserving, archiving, storing, and interpreting its assets.
The Museum's extensive collection of artifacts, documents, photographs, and oral histories focuses on the people who have shaped and continue to influence the development of their state, drawing critical connections between their contributions and the social, political, economic, cultural, and religious aspects of Jewish life in Florida, as well as Jews' relationship to the dominant non-Jewish population. As such, the collection provides a multitude of research opportunities for students, researchers, historians, and journalists. JMOF-FIU also serves as an extended classroom for thousands of Miami-Dade County Public School children, encouraging them to learn about their own cultural history as well as the cultures of other ethnic groups in the multicultural community.
Google rating: 4.5/5
Phone: +1 305-672-5044
Address: 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United States
Tickets: Adult General Admission ( $12.00 ); Senior General Admission ( $10.00 ); Student (with valid ID) General Admission ( $10.00 )
Annual visitors: 750,000
Founded: 1936
Website: https://jmof.fiu.edu/
