Miami Children's Museum in Miami-Dade County, Florida

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Miami-Dade County attraction

Miami Children's Museum

Miami-Dade County · South Florida & the Keys

A children's museum at 980 MacArthur Causeway on Watson Island, in a building of fifty-six and a half thousand square feet.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

It was founded in 1983 as the Miami Youth Museum and took its present name in 1997. Arquitectonica designed the Watson Island building, which opened in 2003, and the shape of it is as much a part of the visit as what is inside. Fourteen permanent galleries fill it, along with preschool classrooms, a resource center for parents and teachers, a shop, a two hundred seat auditorium and a restaurant. Everything is built to be handled. More than four hundred thousand people come each year and over five million have been through since it opened, which for a museum aimed at children under ten is a considerable number. It sits between the mainland and Miami Beach with the port and the cruise ships in view from the causeway, so the drive is part of it. The zoo, the science museum and the art museum are all a short drive away, so it fits into a day with any of them

GETTING THERE

Get Directions ↗Official place website ↗

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