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An Apollonaut travel guide
A science museum in Museum Park.
An introduction to downtown Miami’s waterfront, where Frost Science stands in Maurice A. Ferré Park beside the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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Read the waterfront
Frost Science is at 1101 Biscayne Boulevard, in Maurice A. Ferré Park on Biscayne Bay. The Metromover’s Museum Park station is beside it, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center are close by.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how the museums, the bay and the towers of downtown sit together.
Concrete, acrylic and water
The museum’s engineering includes a 25-hour concrete pour and storm-resilience measures, and its aquarium ends in a 31-foot acrylic lens beneath half a million gallons of water.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you how a lens was set or a tank filled, or the conditions in which people worked.
A museum chapter
Frost Science shows one side of modern Miami: a science museum that began as a volunteer project and moved to the heart of the city’s waterfront.
Look at the meeting of the two: the Gulf Stream recreated in a tank, and the real bay a short walk away.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents their makers.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
- Wikipedia: Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
- Frost Science: About the building
- Frost Science: Parking and transportation
Links lead to the original publishers.
