ALWAYS FREE FOR FLORIDA RESIDENTS
We are always FREE for Florida residents, and our weekly schedule is:
Wednesday–Sunday: 10am–6pm (Friday until 9pm)
As event details may change, check wolfsonian.org for the latest.
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
Into the Stacks | Don’t Stop the Music
Friday, September 12 | 7–9pm | On-site
Dive into the sonic side of our collection with Bookleggers director Nathaniel Sandler and Wolfsonian digitization specialist (and classically trained opera singer!) Hannah Gauthier, as they break out rarely-seen musical elements in the collection.
$10, $5 for members (includes 1 complimentary beverage) | Tickets
Members Only | Hollywood and History: FDR’s New Deal
Friday, September 19 | 6:30–8pm | On-site
Featuring selections from The Wolfsonian alongside clips from Our Daily Bread (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), and One Third of a Nation (1939), this talk by chief librarian Frank Luca explores how cinema mirrored public perceptions of economic struggle, political hope, and national recovery.
FREE and open to members | Join/register
About The Wolfsonian–Florida International University
The Wolfsonian–FIU is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collection comprises more than 200,000 objects dating from 1850 to 1950—the height of the Industrial Revolution through the aftermath of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.
The Wolfsonian is located at 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. Admission is free and the museum is open Thursday through Sunday, 10am–6pm. Contact us at 305.531.1001 or visit us online at wolfsonian.org for further information.
The Wolfsonian receives generous and ongoing support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council.
About FIU
Florida International University is Miami’s public research university, focused on student success. According to U.S. News and World Report, FIU has 26 top-50 rankings in the nation among public universities and Washington Monthly Magazine ranks FIU among the top 20 public universities contributing to the public good and No. 12 for social mobility. FIU is a top U.S. research university (R1), with more than $200 million in annual expenditures. FIU ranks 15th in the nation among public universities for patent production, which drives innovation, and is one of the institutions that helps make Florida the top state for higher education. The Next Horizon fundraising campaign is furthering FIU’s commitment to providing students Worlds Ahead opportunities. Today, FIU has two campuses and multiple centers, and supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Jewish Museum of Florida, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and The Wolfsonian. FIU is a member of Conference USA, with more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. The university has awarded more than 330,000 degrees to many leaders in South Florida and beyond. For more information about FIU, visit.
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