Miami Art Week 2026 / Short Drives
Miami Art Week · November 30 to December 6, 2026
Out of town · The day before or after
From ten minutes out to four hours: what is on in early December, what it costs, and which places a train will reach.
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Opens Dec 4, 2026The map beyond the causeway
Miami Art Week persuades its visitors that the art of South Florida fits between two causeways. It does not. Within two hours of the convention center there is a museum hung with Rothko and Pollock, a photographer’s gallery in a swamp, a castle one man cut from limestone, and a private collection in a former munitions armory.
There are only three directions. North runs up the coast to Palm Beach, with two railroads beside the highway. West is the Everglades. South is farmland, then the Keys.
The table gives each place a distance and a time. Three are sourced and marked. The rest are approximate road figures from the Miami Beach Convention Center on clear roads, which Art Week does not supply; add the causeway.
| Place | Distance and time | The reason to go | Car-free? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coconut Grove | About 9 miles, 25 minutes | Vizcaya; The Kampong | Yes: Metrorail |
| Coral Gables | About 13 miles, 30 minutes | Lowe Art Museum | Metrorail, then a short ride; not verified |
| Hollywood | About 20 miles, 35 minutes | Art and Culture Center | A car is simpler |
| Fort Lauderdale | About 30 miles, 45 minutes | NSU Art Museum; MASS District | Yes: Brightline, about 40 minutes |
| Boca Raton | About 45 miles, 1 hour | Boca Raton Museum of Art | Brightline or Tri-Rail to Boca Raton station |
| Delray Beach | About 55 miles, 1 hour 10 | Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens | Tri-Rail, then a car |
| West Palm Beach and Palm Beach | 69.9 miles, 1 hour 26* | Norton Museum; The Bunker; Flagler Museum | Yes: Brightline, about 1 hour 20 |
| Shark Valley, Everglades | About 45 miles, 1 hour | The park’s Miami entrance | No |
| Big Cypress Gallery, Ochopee | About 75 miles, 1 hour 30 | Clyde Butcher’s photographs | No |
| Homestead and the Redland | About 40 miles, 1 hour | Coral Castle; Fruit & Spice Park | By county transit, per Coral Castle |
| Key Largo | About 65 miles, 1 hour 20 | The first key; the road itself | No |
| Islamorada | About 85 miles, 1 hour 50 | Morada Way arts district | No |
| Key West (overnight) | 166 miles, about 4 hours‡ | The Studios of Key West; Hemingway Home | No |
| Naples (the long one) | 125 miles, 2 hours 2† | The Baker Museum | No |
For the destinations marked “No”, My Biennale’s car-rental partners compare the airport desks: QEEQ, Auto Europe, and EconomyBookings. Each opens its own search. GetTransfer offers a car with a driver by the day. For the Everglades and Key West without driving, GetYourGuide lists Everglades tours from Miami and Key West day trips.
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Close in · Coral Gables and Coconut Grove
Ten minutes from downtown, that is; from the beach, allow the causeway. These three need no highway and no full day, and the Metrorail Orange Line, which the airport lists at $2.25, serves Coconut Grove.
The bayfront estate at 3251 South Miami Avenue is open daily except Tuesday, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, with free parking and, in its own words, proximity to Metrorail. The admission price was not shown on the page read.
The plant explorer David Fairchild named his Coconut Grove garden after the villages he had seen in Malaysia. It now belongs to the National Tropical Botanical Garden and opens Tuesday to Saturday, 9 am to 4:30 pm, with last entry at 3 pm. Reservations are encouraged. Pinta Miami is in the same neighborhood from December 3.
The University of Miami’s museum, at 1301 Stanford Drive in Coral Gables, has three shows through the winter: Dustin Yellin: Psychogeographies, Morel Doucet: The Things We Carry, and Let the Picture Lead: Helen Frankenthaler and Her Circle. Its visit page gives Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm, and $12.50, but also lists holiday closures for 2018. Hours unconfirmed
North · The rail corridor
North is the direction that does not require a car. Brightline stops at Aventura, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and West Palm Beach; Tri-Rail, slower and cheaper, adds Delray Beach and more. Train times, and their single source, are under flights and trains.
Fort Lauderdale · About 45 minutes, or Brightline
Five shows run through Art Week, led by Michael Richards: Escape Plan, Wifredo Lam’s Legacy, and Joel Meyerowitz: Aftermath, with a documentation exhibition of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands.
Fort Lauderdale · Flagler Village
FATVillage, the warehouse arts district, is a construction site. A $500 million redevelopment of apartments, offices, and shops was due to finish at the end of 2026, CBS News Miami reported; Hoodline puts full delivery around 2027.
The murals and studios of the MASS District, just north, carry on. Visit Lauderdale dates the Fort Lauderdale ArtWalk to the first Saturday of each month.
Hollywood · About 35 minutes
A contemporary program in a 1924 Mediterranean Revival mansion, for $7. The December exhibitions were not listed on the visit page. Not yet announced
Boca Raton · About 1 hour, or Brightline
Three shows overlap the fair, by the museum’s listing: Exploring Jess: Beat Generation Visionary, which closes on December 6; Tobi Kahn: Quest for the Essence, from November 7; and Drawing with Scissors: Collage from the Collection.
Delray Beach · About 1 hour 10
Japanese gardens, a museum, and a café serving lunch from 11 am to 3 pm. December exhibitions were not captured.
West Palm Beach · 1 hour 26, or Brightline
The reason to go the whole distance. Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery and Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb open on October 31; Chang Dai-chien: A Master of Modern Chinese Painting runs to January 30. Ken Griffin moved works by Rothko, Lichtenstein, Pollock, and de Kooning here in 2022, according to The Real Deal.
West Palm Beach · By arrangement
Beth Rudin DeWoody’s private space, opened in December 2017 in a 1920s Art Deco building that had been a toy factory and a wartime munitions armory. It shows rotating exhibitions from her collection and admits visitors, in its own words, by invitation and scheduled private tours.
Palm Beach · Across the bridge
Whitehall, Henry Flagler’s house at One Whitehall Way, has America Takes the Stage: From the White City to Whitehall from November 10 to May 30, 2027, on what Flagler’s Florida took from Chicago’s fair. Hours and prices were not on the page read.
The island’s gallery outposts are a moving list. The Real Deal names Acquavella and a seasonal Ben Brown on the island and Gavlak and Kristin Hjellegjerde in West Palm Beach, and says White Cube, Pace, and Paula Cooper have left. Unconfirmed
West · The Tamiami Trail
US 41 leaves Miami as SW 8th Street, the same Calle Ocho that passes Versailles, and runs on to Naples. December opens the dry season. The National Park Service warns that winter weekends bring long lines at the gates and advises arriving before 10 am on a weekday.
The park’s Miami entrance is at 36000 SW 8th Street, 25 miles west of the Turnpike. Entry is $35 a vehicle, valid for seven days, and cashless. No public transport runs within the park.
Farther on, at mile marker 54.5 in Ochopee, the photographer Clyde Butcher shows his large black-and-white pictures of the Everglades in the place they were made. The gallery is open daily from 10 am to 5 pm, half a mile east of the Oasis Visitor Center, with guided swamp walks behind it, according to Visit Everglades City; the gallery’s own page could not be read. Single source
The art most closely tied to this terrain has no gallery in it. AIRIE is a non-profit residency for artists whose work engages the environment, rooted in the Everglades and run from an office in Miami, with no public hours or Art Week 2026 program listed. Not yet announced My Biennale keeps a page for it.
South · Homestead and the Keys
Homestead · About 1 hour
Outsider art at the scale of architecture. Edward Leedskalnin, a Latvian immigrant, cut and set the limestone alone between 1923 and 1951, including a nine-ton gate.
The Redland · About 1 hour
A county park that calls itself the only tropical botanical garden of its kind in the United States: more than 500 varieties of fruit, spice, herb, and nut, with a daily tasting tour. Pair it with the castle; both are in Homestead.
Key Largo and Islamorada · 1 hour 20 to 1 hour 50
Key Largo is the first key and, for this guide, a place to stop and no more: no art venue there was verified. Islamorada has the Morada Way Arts & Cultural District, a street of studios and galleries between mile markers 81 and 82, among them Morada Way Clay and Limelight Studio and Gallery.
Key West · About 4 hours · Overnight
Not a day trip. The Studios of Key West, at 533 Eaton Street, is free, open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm; its next listed exhibitions open on January 7. The Hemingway Home opens every day of the year, 9 am to 5 pm, with the descendants of the writer’s six-toed cats in residence.
Two hours each way across the peninsula buys the fullest museum schedule on this page. The Baker Museum at Artis–Naples has The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams and Florida Contemporary 2026–27, both from October 17, a standing Magritte gallery, and Baron Wolman: Capturing the Sound of an Era, which opens on Saturday, December 5. It is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday from noon; adults pay $10.
November 30 to December 6
These dates fall inside Art Week.
The event to watch is the one without a date. The gallerist Sarah Gavlak founded New Wave Art Wknd in Palm Beach in 2018, and Galerie described the 2022 edition, December 2 to 4, as timed to the final weekend of Art Basel Miami Beach, with The Bunker and the Norton among its venues. No 2026 dates were found. Not yet announced
A suggested route
Monday, December 7 is the natural day out, and Monday is when half of this page is closed: NSU, the Morikami, the Lowe, the Baker, The Kampong. Two routes survive.
The day before the fair has an easier answer. On Thursday, December 3, while the convention center is still invitation-only, the NSU Art Museum is free until 7 pm and 40 minutes away by train. Inside the city limits, see what to see and sun and sand.
Add a day to a Miami trip on My BiennaleSources. Checked October 5, 2026; hours, prices, and exhibition dates were read from each venue’s own site unless stated. North: NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; Art and Culture Center/Hollywood; Boca Raton Museum of Art; Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens; Norton Museum of Art; The Bunker Artspace; Flagler Museum; CBS News Miami and Hoodline on FATVillage; Visit Lauderdale; The Real Deal; Galerie. West and south: the National Park Service; Visit Everglades City; AIRIE; Coral Castle; Miami-Dade Parks; Visit Florida Keys; The Studios of Key West; Hemingway Home; Artis–Naples. Close in: Vizcaya; National Tropical Botanical Garden; Lowe Art Museum. Rail: Brightline and The Palm Beaches. Most drive times are approximate. Not found: 2026 dates for New Wave Art Wknd, The Bunker’s new season, a verified art venue in Key Largo, and hours for the Flagler and Boca Raton museums. Biennale is independent and is not affiliated with any venue or company named here. Corrections: contact@biennale.nyc.
