Vizcaya Estate

Now featured at Vizcaya’s reception room, the 1916 Steinway & Sons grand piano reflects the music spirit that was once present in the halls of the estate.

A piano was missing from Vizcaya for more than 100 years. It's been returned to its original home

Jimena Romero

A historic Steinway & Sons piano has returned to Vizcaya Museum & Gardens after a century. The 1916 piano was documented in archival photographs and in an inventory of the estate made after the death of Vizcaya’s patron James Deering. But the instrument was removed from the villa sometime in the 1920s.

Artist Robert Winthrop Chanler completed the ceiling mural in the grotto at Vizcaya in 1917. The artwork began deteriorating just a year after it was finished because the artist used water soluble materials despite the grotto’s humidity.

Arts & Culture

This rare mural at Vizcaya is ‘dying.’ A $750,000 grant will bring it back to life

Amanda Rosa | Miami Herald

Vizcaya received $750,000 from the National Park Service’s Save America’s Treasures grant program to conserve the ceiling mural and restore it — as much as possible — to its former glory.

A new podcast titled ‘The Rich and Forgotten History of Black Coconut Grove’ tells stories about the Black Bahamians who helped make the villa and the surrounding Coconut Grove community what it is today.

PBC schools want to limit public comment, Black Coconut Grove history, and adopting pets this season

Leslie Ovalle Atkinson

Palm Beach County school officials are considering limiting public comment. The influence of Black Bahamians on Coconut Grove. Plus, before you go and adopt that pet for the holidays, there are some questions you should be asking yourself.

Education

FIU Course Gives Students A Visitor's View Of Miami - For Class Credit

Jessica Bakeman

For a decade, Florida International University art professor John Bailly has watched his students discover other countries.Bailly leads the FIU Honors…

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Florida's Stand Your Ground Law & A Parade At Vizcaya

The debate over bus or rail returns to Miami-Dade this month, when the county's Transportation Planning Organization will gather Aug. 30. Miami-Dade…

For decades, the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami has been a favorite spot for South Floridians to get engaged, get married, and have their <em>quinceañera </em>photos taken. But the meticulously landscaped 50 acres were seriously damaged by Hurricane Irma, and now staffers and volunteers are working to restore this picturesque spot.

After Irma, South Florida's Fairy Tale Estate Looks Stricken By An Evil Spell

Neda Ulaby

Before the hurricane wreaked "cataclysmic destruction," the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami hosted decades of quinceañerasand weddings. Now, hundreds of volunteers are helping clean up.