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PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMIWelcome to Miami | Cultural Miami | Guide Services PAMM
Perez Art Museum Miami Founded in 1997, MAM was a young modern art institution housed in the Miami-Dade Cultural Centre, together with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, History Miami and the main county public library. It was a relatively small space conceived as an exhibition hall and therefore lacked the facilities to maintain its full collection. The new MAM, named for Jorge M. Perez, a multi-millionaire land developer and patron of the arts, is now a highly visible landmark amid Miami's cityscape. It is located, together with the new Science Museum, in Museum Park, a little used public park between the Ardienne Arsht Centre for the Performing Arts and the American Airlines Arena on Biscyane Boulevard. Groundbreaking was on October 2009, with completion in December 2013. The new building is LEED green and sensitive to the city's need for public space, the new PMAM building is designed to extend the park into the museum site by means of a shaded outdoor terrace accessible to all visitors. Miami is renown as the winter home of Art Basel, so it is only appropriate that the design of this new museum has been awarded to the renown architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron, based in Basel, Switzerland and known amongst other works for the transformation of a power plant into Tate Modern, in London (2000) and the Beijing "bird's nest" olympic stadium (2008). Museum
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