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For 15 years, The Wolfsonian–FIU has developed an extensive array of academic and public programs, reaching an audience as broad and varied as its collection. The museum has produced exhibitions and activities to give the public opportunities to identify and consider the historical significance of collection themes and their relevance [...]
The Wolfsonian-FIU’s latest installation, Advertising for Health, explores nearly a century of advertising for medicine, pharmacy and public health. The installation features rare advertisements, printed ephemera and posters from a recent gift by William H. Helfand, a recognized author and print collector. Together with a selection of printed materials and objects [...]
CELEBRATES CAR CULTURE IN SOUTH FLORIDA NOVEMBER 13-15: ‘AN AFFAIR ON, IN, AND WITH THE MOTOR CAR,’ WITH SPECIAL GUEST, FAMED AUTO DESIGNER CHRIS BANGLE Weekend Festivities Also Honor Museum Founder on His 70TH Birthday MIAMI BEACH, FL —The Wolfsonian–FIorida International University will celebrate its sixth annual A Very Wolfsonian [...]
The Miami Herald recently featured the video below. Mitchell “Micky” Wolfson, Jr. shows off some of his massive collection of early 20th century artifacts in the Wolfsonian-FIU secret annex. The collection, he says, is his autobiography, with each piece a small bit of a puzzle.
The Wolfsonian-FIU launched a brand-new, community-service networking group called the Wolf Pack Gives Back on April 23. At a kick-off event last Thursday, Lindsay Merill (pictured above) spoke to the group about Lotus House, a women’s shelter in the heart of Overtown that offers transitional housing and support services to [...]
For three days, from February 25-27, The Wolfsonian–FIU played co-host to some 350 museum and library professionals at the annual Institute of Museum and Library Services WebWise Conference, held in Washington, D.C. As digital technologies become a way of life, the WebWise Conference serves as the only event that brings [...]
Three-year award will establish teaching gallery and fellowship program. By Sissi Aguila The Wolfsonian-FIU has been awarded a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen the academic role of the museum’s collections and programs. Among the initiatives that The Wolfsonian-FIU will undertake with support from this [...]
Thousands of ocean-liner and cruise-ship materials donated to The Wolfsonian-FIU. By Sissi Aguila Laurence Miller, former executive director of libraries at FIU, has donated thousands of ocean liner and cruise ship industry-related materials to the Wolfsonian-FIU. The materials, which will be known as the Laurence Miller Collection, comprise a [...]
