PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI
PAMM MISSION
“Our mission is to be a leader in the presentation, study, interpretation, and care of international modern and contemporary art, while representing and cherishing the unique diversity of Miami-Dade. Through our exhibitions and programs, we aim to encourage everyone to see art as an incentive for genuine human interaction, communication, and exchange.”
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1103 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33132
Telephone: 305.375.3000
https://www.pamm.org/en/
The Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) was designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. Herzog & de Meuron’s visual inspiration were Stiltsville in Biscayne Bay and Miami’s tropical trees, in particular banyans.
https://www.herzogdemeuron.com/projects/306-perez-artmuseum-miami/
“The Basel-based firmʼs latest foray into Miamiʼs unique milieu has produced the new Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), an inspired response to cityʼs subtropical climate and to its waterfront. Slender concrete columns support a deck raised over ground-level parking and a canopy that soars 23 metres high to shade a three-storey block of galleries and support spaces. The museum’s previous home was a hermetic Philip Johnson bunker that turned its back on the city; by contrast this new structure feels fluidly open and transparent. It reaches out through landscaped terraces to engage the bay, a string of public parks, the towers along Biscayne Boulevard, and its near neighbour, Grimshaw Architects’ Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science.” Michael Webb, The Architectural Review
PAMM – PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI
“The Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County (PAMM) has been the flagship museum for Miami-Dade for almost 35 years. At its founding in 1984, the Museum was dedicated to international art of the 20th and 21st centuries, aiming to fill a void in a young city where no contemporary art museum existed. In 1994, we became a collecting institution, and recognizing the massive demographic change that took place in Miami in the previous decade, we refocused our mission to ensure the Museum reflected the city’s plurality of communities. In 2013, we continued to grow with our city, expanding into a 200,000-square foot campus prominently located on Biscayne Bay, between the American Airlines Arena to the south and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts to the north. Today we launch forward from this past. In line with the 400-year history of art collecting museums, we believe art and ideas have the power to enrich the lives of all people – they are an integral part of creating a more humane and just world. As a 21st-century institution, we believe that museums, alongside places of worship, libraries, schools, concert halls, and stadiums, are town halls for the people. These are places that offer opportunities for the healthy exchange of ideas paramount to citizens, promoting inclusivity across our communities, backgrounds, and experiences. We recognize that our city contains a diversity, and we seek to reflect that diversity in everything we do while embracing the power of art and creativity. PAMM aspires to fulfill these beliefs for the Miami of today and tomorrow. We are committed to international modern and contemporary art, and our home at the crossroads of the Americas also uniquely positions us to be the best at presenting art from the U.S. Latino experience, the African diaspora, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We showcase the diversity of 20th- and 21st-century artists, and our programs seek to educate and ensure that all people can participate in a conversation that shares art at its center.”
https://www.pamm.org/en/about/
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
PAMM Official Website
Webb, Michael. “Miami Virtue: Pérez Art Museum in Miami by Herzog & de Meuron.” The Architectural Review, 3 June 2014.
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John William Bailly 12 April 2023
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