Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
This dissertation reconstructs and investigates the origins of the Pérez Art
Museum Miami. In 2013, the museum re-opened in a new, county-funded building to
great acclaim and international attention, but the museum’s origins in the 1970s have
been largely forgotten. A result of the 1972 “Decade of Progress” bond vote by county
taxpayers that allocated funds to build a new art museum, the museum opened as the
Center for the Fine Arts in 1983 as a non-collecting institution dedicated to displaying
traveling exhibitions. The new institution represented the combined efforts of local
government, business, and art to construct not only a place in which to view art but also
as part of an overall plan to create a great metropolitan area.
Museum Miami. In 2013, the museum re-opened in a new, county-funded building to
great acclaim and international attention, but the museum’s origins in the 1970s have
been largely forgotten. A result of the 1972 “Decade of Progress” bond vote by county
taxpayers that allocated funds to build a new art museum, the museum opened as the
Center for the Fine Arts in 1983 as a non-collecting institution dedicated to displaying
traveling exhibitions. The new institution represented the combined efforts of local
government, business, and art to construct not only a place in which to view art but also
as part of an overall plan to create a great metropolitan area.
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