MIAMI, FLORIDA.- Miami Art Museum announces that 66 percent of Miami-Dade County voters approved the county’s Building Better Communities Bond Program on November 2. The $2.9 billion bond program, which supports projects of both neighborhood and regional importance, provides MAM with $100 million for the creation of a new world-class building and sculpture park. The trustees of the Miami Art Museum will match the county’s investment dollar-for-dollar to establish a significant operating endowment fund for the art museum.

The expansion of the Miami Art Museum is the result of the shared vision of museum trustees and leading citizens, as well as leaders from both Miami-Dade County and City of Miami governments. Planning for a larger Miami Art Museum began in 1996.

In 2002, the City of Miami designated Museum Park, landmark buildings for MAM and the Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium, as the official urban redesign vision for Bicentennial Park, an underused, 29-acre, city-owned property on Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami. Passage of the county bond program gives Miami Art Museum the seal of approval from hundreds of thousands of metropolitan Miami citizens.

Together with stakeholders from the county, the city, the science museum, and local residents, the Miami Art Museum will move forward with the master planning process to create a great park anchored by art and science museums that affirm Greater Miami’s role as the Gateway of the Americas.