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The National Museum of the American Latino’s new exhibit, “Puro Ritmo: The Musical Journey of Salsa”, is full of music and movement. The exhibit in Washington, D.C., highlights salsa’s Afro-Cuban roots, the genre’s impact on American music, and multiple South Floridians.

On April 17, 1961, about 1,500 exiles attempted to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion failed, and many were captured. Now, only about 200 veterans remain. They are reopening the Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506 Museum in Miami to mark the 65th anniversary.

The National Archives has selected the HistoryMiami Museum as one of only eight museums nationwide to host the “Freedom Plane National Tour: Documents That Forged a Nation.”

There’s a new museum in town, a hidden gem. It’s for anyone who’s stood at a fence at an airport, watching planes take off and land, just for the thrill of it. The Aviation Museum on the Beach in Juno Beach is filled with more than 1,000 scale models of commercial aircraft — suspended from the ceiling as in flight, standing ready for takeoff on the dozens of shelves, and hovering over the room on giant, sweeping stands.

An exhibition of the more 360 cigar cutters given to the Wolfsonian-FIU by Miami collector Richard Kronenberg is at the Miami Beach museum through Sunday, Sept. 29.

A new exhibition in Fort Lauderdale dives into Chambers v. Florida — a historic Supreme Court case that overturned the death sentence of four Black boys who were violently coerced into confessing to a 1933 Pompano Beach murder, paving the way for the "right to stay silent."

The Orlando Museum of Art has parted ways with its CEO in the days after the FBI raided the Florida museum and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat that are the subjects of an investigation into possible wire fraud and conspiracy.

After the Seminole Tribe of Florida spent years pushing the National Museum of Natural History to return human remains to the tribal nation, the museum finally changed its official policy on repatriations.

Clad in abstract angled siding swaddling 20,000 square feet of exhibition space, Miami’s newest art museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA),…

On this Thursday morning, men and women in hard hats and neon vests scurry around the grand, new Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, power…

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