American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora

American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora is a museum in Miami-Dade County, Greater Miami, Florida, which is located on Coral Way. American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora is situated near the metro station Vizcaya station, as well as near Coral Way Elementary School.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: 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 2,600 feet southeast of American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.

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, adjacent to the national southern terminus of I-95 at South Dixie Highway, two blocks southeast of Coral Way. Vizcaya station is situated 890 feet southeast of American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.

Coral Way Elementary School

School

The Coral Way Bilingual K–8 Center, built as Coral Way Elementary School in 1936, is a K-8 school located in Miami, Florida, United States. The school was a pioneer of bilingual education in 1963, when it began teaching through the mediums of English and Spanish with two groups of students. Coral Way Elementary School is situated 1,500 feet northwest of American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brickell and Little Havana.

Brickell

Neighborhood

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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.

Little Havana

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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.