Museum Park (Miami)

Museum Park
Typ	Municipal
Standort	Downtown, Miami, Florida, United States
Opened	1976
Operated by	Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department
Status	Open all year

View of the park from Biscayne Bay

Bicentennial Park is a major public, urban park (30 acres or .12 km²) in Downtown Miami, Florida. The park opened in 1976 after having previously been an old yacht basin. It was named "Bicentennial Park" to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States in that same year. Today, Bicentennial Park is maintained by Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department, a public organization that manages all the parks within Miami. The park is bordered on the north by I-395, Metromover, and the Miami Herald headquarters, on the south by the American Airlines Arena and Bayside Marketplace, on the west by Biscayne Boulevard and on the east by Biscayne Bay. Bicentennial Park is host to many large-scale events as the park can hold around 45,000 people. Some of these events include Ultra Music Festival, a large, two-day music event, numerous rock concerts such as Warped Tour, various conventions, concerts, as well as boat tours around Biscayne Bay. In March 2009, Bicentennial Park was set to host the Langerado Music Festival, a large three day festival that was held at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation every Spring since 2003, but was canceled due to poor ticket sales. Langerado is set to return to the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation for 2010.

Seven blocks south, is Bicentennial Park's partner park, the 32 acre (.13 km²) Bayfront Park.

Bicentennial Park is currently undergoing a renovation to be renamed Museum Park for the construction of the new Miami Art Museum and the Miami Science Museum. Renovations include a complete revamp of the park as it is currently underutilized for large parts of the year.

See also

• Downtown Miami
• Brickell
• Midtown Miami
• Biscayne Wall
• Bayfront Park

Since 2001 the Miami Art Museum, the Miami Science Museum and Planatarium and the Historical Museum of South Florida have been lobbying City and County officials to build two new museum buildings in waterfront Bicentennial Park, but as of April 2009 (1) none of the museums has been successfull in raising the total funds necessary to construct buildings, (2) funds have not been identified to renovate the park and (3)according to Section 29 of Miami Ordinances, the voters must approve by referudum of any building which is not of water dependent use to be built in a waterfront park and there has been no such vote.

External links

• Bicentennial Park

Since 2001 the Miami Art Museum, the Miami Science Museum and Planetarium and the Historical Museum of South Florida have been lobbying City and County officials to build two new museum buildings in waterfront Bicentennial Park, but as of April 2009 (1) none of the museums has been successful in raising the total funds necessary to construct buildings, (2) funds have not been identified to renovate the park and (3)according to Section 29 of Miami Ordinances, the voters must approve by referendum of any building which is not of water dependent use to be built in a waterfront park and there has been no such vote.