Miami and Miami Beach has a varied selection of museums and galleries, which unlike the UK are almost entirely privately funded by wealthy philanthropists.
The Bass Museum is a museum of contemporary art, established in 1963 by Jewish immigrants who made their fortune from sugar.
The Wolfsonian is a museum which uses its collection to illustrate the persuasive power of art. The museum opened in 1995 is named after Mitchell Wolfson Jr, whose father was a businessman and the first Jewish mayor of Miami Beach.
The Rubell Museum houses their family collection in a building formerly used by the US drug enforcement agency as a warehouse for seized drugs. It opened in 1993 and is a collection of contemporary art. It is also home to an excellent modern Spanish restaurant, Leku.
In addition we visited the Britto Gallery, a shop selling art work and products created by Brazilian born pop artist Romero Britto. He is reputed to be the most collected and licenced artist in history with his works extending from Disney figurines to London taxis.
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