Exhibitions
Inaugurated in November 1996, this ongoing exhibition is periodically updated with works from The Wolfsonian collection.
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This installation provides compelling examples of how designers in Europe and America responded to new ideas and attitudes about health, hygiene, and efficiency in the home...
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This exhibition showcases a selection of election-related materials from the United States and Europe between 1918 and 1945; works are drawn from the museum’s collection and...
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November 29 2012 - April 07 2013
Untitled ([construction of good]) is a site-specific installation by Miami-based artist Bhakti Baxter on view in The Wolfsonian Bridge Tender House from November 29, 2012.
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May 17 2013 - September 29 2013
Modern Meals examines how people in the U.S. began eating foods that were mass-produced in the first half of the 20th century. Images and artifacts from The Wolfsonian’s...
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May 17 2013 - September 29 2013
Women in Motion focuses on increased participation for women in sports and other kinds of physical activity in the early 20th century, as strides were made towards political...
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June 04 2013 - September 01 2013
At 803 feet long and 146 feet high, the Hindenburg, a Zeppelin built in Germany and completed in 1936, was the largest aircraft ever built. It included passenger cabins, a...
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September 27 2013
Echoes and Origins: Interwar Italian Design is an exhibition of applied arts and design objects that collectively evidence the dilemma of creating a unified national identity...
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November 22 2013
The Birth of Rome presents modern architectural and urban planning projects that cultivated the perception of a storied Italian nation rooted in a mythologized past. On...
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November 22 2013
Rendering War focuses on the Italian Novecento artist Antonio Giuseppe Santagata’s large-scale studies for mural paintings created in the 1920s and 1930s for buildings of the...
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May 09 2013 - June 02 2013
Five unique books created by fifth grade students will be on display in the lobby of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University from Thursday, May 9 through Sunday, June...
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January 24 2013 - April 14 2013
Race and Visual Culture under National Socialism is an exhibition that uses ordinary objects to reveal how the Nazi Party in Germany promoted the idea of a racially pure...
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November 29 2012 - April 21 2013
Through new works of video, audio, and photography, this project gives image to the often unseen figure of the worker whose labor fabricates the physical world.
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November 15 2012 - March 31 2013
This exhibition explores a selection of “artists’ postcards” from 1907 to 1919 made by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop).
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October 17 2012 - January 13 2013
Material and Meaning explores the expressive and functional potential of different kinds of clay, and the varied design and production processes employed to make finished...
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June 15 2012 - December 16 2012
Periodical illustrations and books from the Caribbean phase of the Spanish-American War explore how the American and British public formed a visual impression of the war.
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June 15 2012 - December 15 2012
In the late 1930s, the Moore-McCormack Company marketed their Good Neighbor Fleet—the SS Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
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May 11 2012 - September 09 2012
Presents a comprehensive overview of the diverse visual strategies employed by government agencies, community activists, grassroots organizations, and motivated citizens to...
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February 15 2012 - November 15 2012
The posters and other advertisements demonstrate a variety of visual strategies and techniques used by designers in the twentieth century.
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January 27 2012 - May 29 2012
This installation will feature a selection of wine advertisements and publications from The Wolfsonian's rare book and special collections library.
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Examines French interior design of the 1920s, focusing on limited-edition luxury portfolios created using a traditional stencil technique known in France as pochoir.
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Highlights for the first time Schultze & Weaver’s New York and Florida hotels within a broader context of twentieth-century hotel development.
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Depicts the transformation of a key Asian city after an earthquake struck Tokyo and eastern Japan with devastating force at 11:58 a.m. on September 1, 1923.
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