Museums and the Unusual in Miami
Posted by Dylan on February 8, 2010As I write these words, it’s eighty-one degrees and sunny in Miami, Florida. For the rest of the country, it’s quite a bit chillier. In Hutchinson, Kansas, for example, it’s thirty-four degrees and snowing. Even in Los Angeles, it looks like rain. With Super Bowl XLIV behind us, hotels in the Miami area should be freed up for vacationers who wish to escape the colder climates. If you go, you’ll find a surprising amount of things to do from the standard, such as great museums, to the bizarre, such as… well, just read on and see!
For museums, you can take your pick of a number of outstanding choices: The Miami Science Museum, the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum, or the Gold Coast Railroad Museum. At the Miami Science Museum, you’ll find exhibits that feature the Cabaret Mechanical Theater, a collection of current and past mechanized puppet-machines, some of which date back to the 1800s. At the Frost Museum, there’s a host of intriguing art work, including an exhibit titled, The Fantastic World of Jose Gurvich. This artist’s very life brings together a number of different cultures. He pulls together images that bring together New York and Israel and Uruguay, focused on a pairing of the ordinary and the fantastic. The Gold Coast Railroad Museum provides you with the chance to take a trip in a locomotive cab. You’ll want to call to see that a) the trains are running, and b) to see about seating: there’s only four seats per ride in the engineering cabs, although the trains do run every half an hour on Saturday and Sunday from eleven in the morning to four in the afternoon.
What about the bizarre times to be had in Miami? Check out the nearby Coral Castle located in Homestead, Florida. It’s a series of structures built by Ed Leedskalnin, a Latvian American man who built this work in the middle of the last century, with over a thousand tons of stones, all perfectly balanced and precisely placed together. It’s still a mystery as to how this man put this work together. Get out of the cold and into the sun, and see a few museums and one man’s really intriguing accomplishment.
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