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BEST PUBLIC RESTROOM
Award Winner 2002

Hours: Sun,Mon,Tue,Thu,Sat 12pm-6pm, Fri 12pm-9pm
Parking: Garage, Meters, Street

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American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow

Daily

This exhibit focuses on the period when streamlined designed first developed in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as presenting examples of modern strea...
Reflections on Loss and Commemoration

Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.
(LO & BEHOLD) (MIRA & VE)

Daily
The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive

9:00 a.m. daily

The famous architectural archive, documenting the work of the firm John and Drew Eberson, Architects from 1909 through 1988, is now online.
Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America

12:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from October 3 until August 13

The late author John Updike once wrote that his goal was to “give the mundane its beautiful due.” That spirit is alive and well in “Manifest and Mu...

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2002 | BEST PUBLIC RESTROOM

A swingin' bachelor pad's bathroom The lavatory in a villain's hideout Actually the ultracool restrooms at the museum of things made between 1885 and 1945 look more like the facilities in the Batcave, so don't be surprised if at any moment crime-fighting superheroes Batman and Robin roll up in the Batmobile for a pit stop. Gleaming black-glass walls, stainless-steel sinks and fixtures, tiny halogen pendant lights brightening the way to relief. As gleaming clean as Alfred would keep it.... More »
2000 | Best Museum

In a city whose international image is often, and sometimes wrongly, drawn by hypesters peddling simplistic images of hot-pink flamingos, drag queens, scheming thugs, and hysterical politicians, it is somehow not surprising to find that the best museum in town is a South Beach warehouse packed full of the fruits of one local rich-guy-collector's aggressive, Deco-tinged whimsy. Indeed at Micky Wolfson's Wolfsonian, the twelve-inch torpedo cigarette lighter sits not far from the obelisk... More »

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

By Alex Rodriguez | Fri, May 18, 2012

This week was cray, y'all. Thank Cultist, it's Friday!We have so much lined up for you this weekend, it should be illegal.One of the biggest and sexiest conventions is in town -- surely you've heard a... More »
Miami Museum Month: The Best, Snobbiest, and Sexiest Museums to Visit This Month

By Vanessa Martin | Thu, May 10, 2012

Like wine and cheese, pancakes and syrup, or Ryan Gosling and V-neck shirts, some of the finer things in life are best paired with, well, some of the finer things in life. Unfortunately, most of life'... More »
Paint by Numbers

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus | Thu, December 29, 2011

Long before the media and the Internet were used by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann to inform public opinion, propagandists relied on old-fangled, Kafkaesque data-slinging to stack the cards in favor of their arguments. Surreptitiou... More »
With Liberty and Tables for All

By Mike Hicks | Thu, November 17, 2011

Francophiles and fans of furniture-as-art will rejoice in “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,” a new exhibit at the Wolfsonian. Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris generously loaned 150 objects, including furniture and elements of industr... More »
Reflect Loss

By Amanda McCorquodale | Thu, September 08, 2011

Ten years ago this Sunday, Americans woke up to the terror of a World Trade Center in flames and a smoking Pentagon. A decade later, the Wolfsonian examines how disaster and tragedy have been interpreted by art and technology. "Reflections on Loss... More »
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The Wolfsonian-FIU

1001 Washington Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33139

305-531-1001

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Daily

Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.

Daily

9:00 a.m. daily

12:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from October 3 until August 13

2002 | BEST PUBLIC RESTROOM

2000 | Best Museum

By Alex Rodriguez | Fri, May 18, 2012

By Vanessa Martin | Thu, May 10, 2012

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus | Thu, December 29, 2011

By Mike Hicks | Thu, November 17, 2011

By Amanda McCorquodale | Thu, September 08, 2011