1. Jewish Museum of Florida: The Jewish Museum located
in Miami, Florida offers a fascinating look at religion and culture
through films, lectures, and exhibits documenting the Jewish experience in
Florida since 1763. A trip to the Jewish museum is a lesson in the
Jewish influence on 250 years of Florida’s history. Housed inside a former
synagogue that housed Miami Beach’s first congregation, it also explores the
Jewish roots of Latin America.
The Jewish Museum building, built in 1936, is on the National
Register of Historic Places. It is designed in classic Art Deco style with a
copper dome, white stucco exterior, a marble bimah, and over 80 stained glass
windows, each containing a different image representing a concept or story in
Jewish history.
We are going to this museum so we can understand how it's to live in Miami if you are Jewish
2. Miami Seaquarium: In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird roared unto the streets for the very first time,
the very first edition of The Guinness Book of World Records was published, and
Gunsmoke - the classic American western - first aired on national TV. But it
didn't end there, 1955 brought South Florida its first marine-life attraction,
Miami Seaquarium® which was the largest marine-life attraction in the world at
the time of its opening.
And now over 50 years later, Miami Seaquarium®
is the longest operating oceanarium in the US. The park has grown steadily over
the past half century and today offers eight different marine animal shows and
presentations each day and provides a fun-filled mix of exhibits, shows,
attractions, food and shopping opportunities. Miami Seaquarium®, which attracts
more than 500,000 visitors each year, is recognized as South Florida's most
popular 'gated' attraction. Miami Seaquarium® is a premier entertainment
destination that is dedicated to education, wildlife conservation and community
involvement.
We are going to Seaquarium so we can swim with en dolphins en look at the orca show because we don't have them in Holland
3. Matheson Hammock Park Beach:
Matheson Hammock opened in 1930 as the first county park of Dade
County, a gift of 80 acres to the county from William J. Matheson.[1] Originally
administered by the county's first director of public parks, A. D. Barnes, and
designed by the landscape architect William Lyman Phillips,[2] today it
is owned and managed by Miami-Dade County.
Matheson wanted the land to be used as a park "to preserve the wild and
natural beauty." It grew with further donations by the Matheson heirs, purchases
by county commissioner Charles Crandon, and other donations to its current 630
acres.[3] Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC) crews were assigned to Matheson Hammock in
1936 and began to develop the Bayfront park area. Coral stone buildings rose and
the picnic area had a coral stone shelter.
Without the use of the inexpensive and skilled labor force under the state
and federal assistance programs, it would have been impossible to build the
miles of carefully hewn coral stone walls and native stone buildings. The
quality of the CCC's work was verified in 1945 when a hurricane resulted in
12-foot waves rolling over Matheson Hammock, causing immense damage to equipment
and furnishings, and depositing layers of mud and trash in the park, but the
basic CCC structures stood firm and the park recovered
We are going to this Park/Beach just to relax!
4. Vizcaya Museum and Garden: The estate property originally consisted of 180 acres (730,000 m2) of shoreline Mangrove swamps and dense inland native
tropical forests. Being a conservationist, Deering sited the development
of the estate portion along the shore to conserve the forests. This portion was
to include the villa, formal gardens, recreational amenities, expansive lagoon gardens with new islets, potager and grazing fields, and a village
services compound. The villa was built primarily between 1914 and 1916, while
the construction of the extensive elaborate Italian
Renaissance gardens and the village continued into 1923. During
the World War I years building trades and supplies were difficult to acquire in
Florida. Vizcaya is noteworthy for adapting historical European aesthetic
traditions to South Florida's subtropical ecoregion. For example; it combined imported
French and Italian garden layouts and elements implemented in Cuban limestone stonework with Floridian coral architectural trim and planted with
sub-tropic compatible and native plants that thrived in the habitat and climate. Palms and Philodendrons had not been represented in the
emulated gardens of Tuscany or Île-de-France.
We are going to the Vizcaya gardens to watch how beautiful nature can be.
5. Holocaust Memorial: In 1984, a small group of Holocaust survivors joined together to develop a
permanent memorial in Miami to the six million Jews who perished at the hands of
the Nazis. A year later, the Holocaust Memorial Committee was formally
established as a private non-profit organization.
The committee decided that Miami Beach was the perfect location for such a
memorial, as South Florida has one of the highest populations of Holocaust
survivors in the United States, with many of them residing within the city
limit
We are going to the Holocaust memorial so we know more about the history of Miami.
Free Time!
We have free time from 9am till 11am and 7pm till 9am, you can do whatever you want in your free time.
in Miami, Florida offers a fascinating look at religion and culture
through films, lectures, and exhibits documenting the Jewish experience in
Florida since 1763. A trip to the Jewish museum is a lesson in the
Jewish influence on 250 years of Florida’s history. Housed inside a former
synagogue that housed Miami Beach’s first congregation, it also explores the
Jewish roots of Latin America.
The Jewish Museum building, built in 1936, is on the National
Register of Historic Places. It is designed in classic Art Deco style with a
copper dome, white stucco exterior, a marble bimah, and over 80 stained glass
windows, each containing a different image representing a concept or story in
Jewish history.
We are going to this museum so we can understand how it's to live in Miami if you are Jewish
2. Miami Seaquarium: In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird roared unto the streets for the very first time,
the very first edition of The Guinness Book of World Records was published, and
Gunsmoke - the classic American western - first aired on national TV. But it
didn't end there, 1955 brought South Florida its first marine-life attraction,
Miami Seaquarium® which was the largest marine-life attraction in the world at
the time of its opening.
And now over 50 years later, Miami Seaquarium®
is the longest operating oceanarium in the US. The park has grown steadily over
the past half century and today offers eight different marine animal shows and
presentations each day and provides a fun-filled mix of exhibits, shows,
attractions, food and shopping opportunities. Miami Seaquarium®, which attracts
more than 500,000 visitors each year, is recognized as South Florida's most
popular 'gated' attraction. Miami Seaquarium® is a premier entertainment
destination that is dedicated to education, wildlife conservation and community
involvement.
We are going to Seaquarium so we can swim with en dolphins en look at the orca show because we don't have them in Holland
3. Matheson Hammock Park Beach:
Matheson Hammock opened in 1930 as the first county park of Dade
County, a gift of 80 acres to the county from William J. Matheson.[1] Originally
administered by the county's first director of public parks, A. D. Barnes, and
designed by the landscape architect William Lyman Phillips,[2] today it
is owned and managed by Miami-Dade County.
Matheson wanted the land to be used as a park "to preserve the wild and
natural beauty." It grew with further donations by the Matheson heirs, purchases
by county commissioner Charles Crandon, and other donations to its current 630
acres.[3] Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC) crews were assigned to Matheson Hammock in
1936 and began to develop the Bayfront park area. Coral stone buildings rose and
the picnic area had a coral stone shelter.
Without the use of the inexpensive and skilled labor force under the state
and federal assistance programs, it would have been impossible to build the
miles of carefully hewn coral stone walls and native stone buildings. The
quality of the CCC's work was verified in 1945 when a hurricane resulted in
12-foot waves rolling over Matheson Hammock, causing immense damage to equipment
and furnishings, and depositing layers of mud and trash in the park, but the
basic CCC structures stood firm and the park recovered
We are going to this Park/Beach just to relax!
4. Vizcaya Museum and Garden: The estate property originally consisted of 180 acres (730,000 m2) of shoreline Mangrove swamps and dense inland native
tropical forests. Being a conservationist, Deering sited the development
of the estate portion along the shore to conserve the forests. This portion was
to include the villa, formal gardens, recreational amenities, expansive lagoon gardens with new islets, potager and grazing fields, and a village
services compound. The villa was built primarily between 1914 and 1916, while
the construction of the extensive elaborate Italian
Renaissance gardens and the village continued into 1923. During
the World War I years building trades and supplies were difficult to acquire in
Florida. Vizcaya is noteworthy for adapting historical European aesthetic
traditions to South Florida's subtropical ecoregion. For example; it combined imported
French and Italian garden layouts and elements implemented in Cuban limestone stonework with Floridian coral architectural trim and planted with
sub-tropic compatible and native plants that thrived in the habitat and climate. Palms and Philodendrons had not been represented in the
emulated gardens of Tuscany or Île-de-France.
We are going to the Vizcaya gardens to watch how beautiful nature can be.
5. Holocaust Memorial: In 1984, a small group of Holocaust survivors joined together to develop a
permanent memorial in Miami to the six million Jews who perished at the hands of
the Nazis. A year later, the Holocaust Memorial Committee was formally
established as a private non-profit organization.
The committee decided that Miami Beach was the perfect location for such a
memorial, as South Florida has one of the highest populations of Holocaust
survivors in the United States, with many of them residing within the city
limit
We are going to the Holocaust memorial so we know more about the history of Miami.
Free Time!
We have free time from 9am till 11am and 7pm till 9am, you can do whatever you want in your free time.