Experience the Gilded Age at James Deering’s 1916 winter estate, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. You’ll be inspired to embrace the cultural vitality and environmental sustainability of the world around us. Connect with the past, understand the present and shape the future by exploring the resources found here.
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To help you get the most our of your visit to Vizcaya while maintaining health and safety protocols, you can now stream audio tours on your personal mobile device.
Choose your personal tour path using Vizcaya’s 90-minute audio tour, available in English and Spanish. The audio tour includes areas of interest related to both floors of the Main House as well as the gardens.
FOR A LIMITED TIME, AUDIO TOURS ARE FREE WITH ADMISSION.
Streaming access lasts for 7 days after your initial purchase.
In a hurry? Vizcaya’s Guidebook provides a general overview of the decorated rooms in the Main House and areas of the Formal Gardens.
Available for purchase onsite: $3 each (English only).
Download an estate map to familiarize yourself with Vizcaya. Save Paper—save the map on your tablet or mobile device to use during your visit to support Vizcaya’s environmental initiatives.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is an enduring, inclusive, and innovative place that inspires people to embrace the cultural vitality and environmental sustainability of the world around us. We welcome all guests to engage with us as we connect with the past, understand the present, and shape the future. We want to hear your voice, understand your point of view, and welcome you to our community.
If you have accessibility needs please contact a security officer upon arrival and they can assist you with accessible parking locations and other information.
All visitors should be aware and cautious of the many steps and uneven floors and terrain throughout Vizcaya’s Main House, gardens and grounds.
There are accessible parking spaces in the main parking lot and in the service area on the south side of the Main House. Drivers who need to drop off visitors with limited mobility near the wheelchair lift, please alert the security officer in the main parking lot and proceed to the service area. However, you will need to purchase your tickets at the Admissions Booth.
In accordance with titles II and III of the ADA, Vizcaya welcomes service dogs only. Service dogs must be housebroken as well as harnessed, leashed, or tethered to their accompanying individual.
With the exception of service animals that meet the federal government’s guidelines for animals trained to perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a qualifying disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), visitors are not permitted to bring animals on to Vizcaya property. Visitors may not bring any other animals onto Vizcaya property, including but not limited to pets or emotional support animals.
The first floor of the Main House is accessible with a lift which can be located near the public restrooms on the South side of the house. Please ask at Admissions or the front door of the Main House for staff to assist with the lift.
Many of the gardens are also accessible and a Visitor Services staff member can gladly direct you to accessible routes using a map once you arrive at the Admissions Booth.
UPDATE AS OF JUNE 2, 2020: For your safety and in reference to Miami-Dade County New Normal guidelines, the borrowing of wheelchairs is suspended. Please bring your own wheelchair until further notice.
Wheelchairs are available for loan on a first-come, first-served basis. When you arrive, please inform the Admissions attendant of your wish to borrow a wheelchair. They will notify a security officer to have one ready by the Service Area next to the Main House.
Main House guidebooks in Braille and large print are available for loan at the Admissions Booth.
Sign Language interpreters are available to accompany a guided tour of the Main House. We require at least five working days’ advance notice.
To make arrangements for a Sign Language interpreter, email vizcayainformation@vizcaya.org or call 305-860-8412.
Vizcaya has fully accessible restrooms located on the south side of the Main House and Oval Plaza near the Garden Mound.
Visitor restrooms (men’s and women’s) include changing tables (diaper changing is not permitted inside the Main House). Gender-neutral restrooms are located behind the men’s and women’s restrooms on the south side of the Main House.
UPDATE NOTE AS OF JUNE 2020: Select spaces are open on the first floor of the Main House. The second floor remains closed. The Virtual Access Tour is not currently available on site, but is available online.
The first floor of the Main House is mostly accessible to visitors using wheelchairs, with the exception of the East Loggia and the Entrance Loggia. Please enter through the ramp and lift on the south side of the house (to the right of the main entrance, through the arched gateway), with assistance from a security officer.
An interactive Virtual Access Tour located next to the Flower Room on the first floor of the Main House allows virtual access to the second floor, tower rooms and non-accessible areas of the gardens. Information for the Virtual Access Tour is offered in English and Spanish.
The central portions of the formal gardens are accessible, but visitors should be aware that the paths are primarily dirt and gravel, rather than paved. In addition, the Garden Mound, Maze Garden, Theater Garden, Tea House, Boat Landing, Secret Garden and the west statuary walk have limited or no access.
The following policies apply to Vizcaya’s indoor and outdoor areas:
If a visitor(s) is coming to take portrait photography rather than to visit the Museum, a permit is required. More information on portrait photography permits can be found here.
The Museum reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to withhold and/or withdraw permission to photograph on its premises. If at any time behavior that puts the other visitors, the estate or the collection at risk is observed, visitors may be asked to leave the premises and forfeit their museum experience.
Visitors may not reproduce photographs of the gardens or collection for commercial purposes without prior authorization. For more information about commercial still photography visit Photography and Filming.
Drones are strictly prohibited and not allowed for personal use within Vizcaya Museum and Gardens premises.
All visitors must remain fully clothed at all times. Bathing suits, mesh or sheer clothing are not permitted. For your safety, footwear is required while walking around the house and gardens.
Only single strollers may enter the house, larger strollers are only allowed in the gardens. Inside the house please be careful to avoid contact with doorways, walls or furnishings. Visitors may leave strollers in the Entrance Loggia or outside the front entrance to the house.
No strollers are permitted on the second floor of the house, which is currently closed for social distancing purposes.
Vizcaya does not offer bag check. Luggage and large bags are not allowed in the Main House. Our security officers reserve the right to review bags upon entry and prohibit large bags that may damage the collections or compromise security. Baby carriers must be worn on your chest.
Please note that all personal items are the sole responsibility of the owner. Staff are not responsible for unattended bags or belongings.
Visitors may not bring any food or drinks to Vizcaya, except if they are visiting as part of a school or college group.
The Vizcaya Café and Shop is located on the north side of the Main House, next to the Swimming Pool Grotto and across from the Orchidarium. It is temporarily operating in an air-conditioned tent while renovations are completed in the formal space.
Visitors can enjoy light bites and beverages as well as shop for gifts inspired by Vizcaya’s architecture, gardens and collections. Only guests who have purchased museum admissions have access to the Café and Shop. The Café remains open during the museum’s regular operating hours as well as for select museum programs and events.
Vizcaya members enjoy free admission to the property, including the Café and Shop. Members also enjoy a 10% discount at the Café and Shop.
Food or drinks may not be opened or consumed in the Main House.
Visitors are not permitted to bring animals on to Vizcaya property. The only exception is for approved service animals that meet the federal government’s guidelines for animals trained to perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a qualifying disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Visitors may not bring any other animals onto Vizcaya property, including but not limited to pets or emotional support animals.
Please visit the federal ADA website for additional information.
Vizcaya has traditionally served as an inspiration to artists of all mediums, and we welcome artists to sketch, draw, and paint on-site. Because Vizcaya is a National Historic Landmark, policies are in place for such activities that support the preservation and safety of our collections.
Visitors interested in sketching indoors may only use graphite pencils. No other materials are permitted inside the Main House. Visitors may sketch and paint outdoors; no sprayed materials, permanent markers or electrical tools are permitted. Vizcaya reserves the right to prohibit any materials security officers or other staff deem unsafe for the public, estate or collection. Art materials may not be left unattended. Vizcaya is a pack-in and pack-out location. Bathrooms may not be used for cleaning or disposing of art materials.
At Vizcaya we are constantly active in the preservation and conservation of this unique and fragile estate and its extremely varied collections. Please help us in our efforts by not touching museum objects or leaning and climbing on doors, gates and walls. We thank you for not standing or sitting on statuary, fountains or railings.
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Deering built Vizcaya—a Gilded Age home of singular architecture and design in an uncommon location—as a place of retirement and respite for his pernicious anemia, which was incurable at the time. He was a lifelong bachelor with no direct descendants, and Deering left no instruction for Vizcaya in his Will or otherwise. Upon his death, the estate’s ownership transferred rapidly among family members ultimately landing with Deering’s nieces: Barbara Deering Danielson and Marion Deering McCormick.
