Miami Science Museum
The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, formerly known as the Miami Science Museum or Miami Science Museum and Space Transit Planetarium, is a science museum, planetarium, and aquarium located in Miami, Florida, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: science museum in Florida, US
- Also known as: “frostscience.org”, “Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium”, “Museum of Science and Space Transit”, “Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science”, “Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science”, and “The Junior Museum of Miami”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vizcaya Museum and Gardens and Vizcaya station.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Museum
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The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present-day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Miami Science Museum.
Vizcaya station
Metro station
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Vizcaya station is a station on the Metrorail rapid transit service station in The Roads neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The station is located near the intersection of Southwest First Avenue and 32nd Road, at the southern terminus of I-95 at South Dixie Highway two blocks southeast of Coral Way. Vizcaya station is situated 700 feet north of Miami Science Museum.
Mercy Hospital
Hospital
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Mercy Hospital is a 488-bed acute care hospital located in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida. It is Miami-Dade County's only Catholic hospital. Mercy Hospital was established in 1950. Mercy Hospital is situated 2,700 feet south of Miami Science Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Havana and Downtown Miami.
Little Havana
Little Havana is located just west of Downtown Miami. Also known as the Latin Quarter, it received its name by being a Cuban neighborhood from the 1970s until the 1990s, but now consists of many Central and South Americans.
Downtown Miami
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Downtown Miami is a district in Miami, steel-and-glass buildings have sprung up around downtown, the heart of the city. By day there's plenty of activity downtown, as suited lawyers and bankers share the sidewalks with Latino merchants wearing open-neck, intricately embroidered shirts called guayaberas.
Miami
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Miami is a major city in the southeastern United States and the second most populous city in Florida. The Greater Miami metropolitan area is the largest in the state with an estimated population just under 6.1 million, which makes it the 9th most populous metro area in the United States.
Miami Science Museum
- Categories: science museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Miami-Dade County, Greater Miami, Florida, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Miami Science Museum” goes by many names.
- French: “Miami Science Museum”
- German: “Miami Science Museum”
- Italian: “Miami Science Museum”
- Japanese: “フィリップ&パトリシアフロスト科学博物館”
- Polish: “Miami Science Museum”
- Polish: “Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science”
- Polish: “The Junior Museum of Miami”
- Spanish: “Museo de la Ciencia Phillip y Patricia Frost”
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