Dogs & Cats Walkway & Sculpture Garden Now Open At Museum Park

The Dogs and Cats Walkway and Sculpture Garden is now open at Museum Park (also known as Ferre Park).

The gardens officially opened on February 11.

It features 52 oversized aluminum sculptures – 26 are cats, and 26 are dogs.

The one-acre garden features native plants, palm trees, hibiscus, and perennial flowers.

 

 

(photos: Phillip Pessar)

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Anonymous
1 month ago

We LOVE this contribution. Excellent work Commissioner and Mayor! We pray for added fun public art like this in District 3. There are expanding pedestrian areas that would be well attended with projects like this. Thank you for working so hard for community enhancements like this.

Anon
1 month ago

**Paid for by Joe Carollo**

BD3
1 month ago

Art > negativity. Art District in Brickell District 3.

Anon
1 month ago

Just tell joe you want 20’x20′ LED billboards along the River and he’ll install some art to maximize ad dollars like he did up here!

Anonymous
1 month ago

At least it’s actual art, and not some paint cans thrown on the facade of a parking garage.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Are you serious?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Hate the guy behind this, but I have to say we LOVE this garden. It’s so unique and is already bringing a lot more people to Museum Park.

Anon
1 month ago

Unfortunately in a year it will probably look very different than it does today, as the city doesn’t have the funds to maintain it Year after year. In fact, the city doesn’t even have the funds to maintain the existing park features, so I’m a bit confused as to why we are adding new ones.

Anoymous
1 month ago

This is probably maintained by the park and there’s money for it. It will look as great as it does now.

Anon
1 month ago

We don’t have to guess, just read about it. The entire park budget went toward this one project. It was passed without any deliberation from the other commissioners, one even resigned they were so angry at how this project was shoved through. There isn’t any money left for anything else.

Riversider
1 month ago

I thought 13 million was spent on resdesigning Jose Martí Park?

Anon
1 month ago

We’re talking about Bayfront Park and the Bayfront Park Trust, which Joe Carollo is the head of.

Anon
1 month ago

If anyone knows more, I’d love to hear it. But so far it’s been made clear from the other commissioners that this was made using the entirety of the parks budget for the year, it was approved with zero debate, and the city can’t even afford to maintain existing features.

Anon
1 month ago

I don’t think the City or DDA fund the parks in Brickell, do they? Southside Park (central park in Brickell) or the Miami Circle Park (the national landmark in Brickell). Brickell pays downtowns development tax though.

Miami History
1 month ago

Have you seen the Miami Circle? The grass and plants died and it got buried under ground. If that’s what happens to an ancient artifact I’d hate to see what injustice will be served on these new sculptures 😭

Anonymous
1 month ago

They got buried underground because the site was probably landfilled, and the “stone circle” is a former drainage pipe to an apartment building that existed onsite decades ago.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Mr. Carollo was the mayor of Miami. Maybe he approved billboards to Downtown’s Museum Park so it can become a world attraction, like Time Square. It’s already pretty buzzy with the arena and everything else going on there.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The Arts & Entertainment District was supposed to be a mini Times Square, if I recall some proposal about fifteen years ago.

Anon
1 month ago

Oh I know all about Joe Carollos history, thanks. There’s plenty of material.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s kitsch.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Look at all those pride colored cats and dogs! Jokes on you Carollo!

Anoymous
1 month ago

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Anonymous
1 month ago

Looks more Britto to me.

RDelgado
1 month ago

I thought the same exact thing when I saw it.

JoeMustHo
1 month ago

Gotta love that Joe considers this “world class art. $896,000 for this piece of sh*t! and Carollo did it with no competitive bids. I wonder how much him and his wife are pocketing off of this?

Anonymous
1 month ago

What do you consider world class art, a banana taped to a wall?

Anonymous
1 month ago

love it…a big draw for tourists and kids love it as well

Anonymous
1 month ago

At first I opposed this just because anything associated with Joe Carollo requires opposition, but I have to say after checking it out, I really like it. The location is perfect. Very photogenic!!!

Anonymous
1 month ago

We love it too. Our main concern is that the highly respected Commissioner decided to do this in an entirely different district than the one he serves. He hasn’t done anything like this in his Brickell district yet. I hope he sees the positive support and replicates something like this is Brickell’s District 3.

Anoymous
1 month ago

You got no parks in Brickell

Anonymous
1 month ago

Please look into what this “highly respected commissioner” did to local businesses who spoke out against him.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Didn’t he carve out a part of Brickell and Coconut Grove when redistricting Miami? It’s getting better every day! I heard a new art gallery is opening up, major neighborhood grocer, with a new luxury high rise and river district development 🤷‍♀️ I believe his term will be up soon sadly. Maybe if he improves his Brickell District 3 with world-class public art and development projects it could change minds.

MsCommish
1 month ago

Listen folks, we must work with him to improve Brickell. He is the Commissioner for half of Brickell, whether you like it or not. His term will be up soon, so you can run for office then.

Anon
1 month ago

So where will the large 20’x20’ foot LED billboards be going?

Anon
1 month ago

I love people who downvote without a counter argument. It basically just means “ you’re right, but I don’t like that you’re right”

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s because if they posted any further on the topic they would just continue to look dumber and dumber, so they resort to simply downvoting instead to inflate their self-esteem.

Anon
1 month ago

Still no answer lol. Because everyone knows by next year this park will have graffiti, no working lighting, no flowers, weeds, and giant LED Billboards.

Anon
1 month ago

The only half decent thing Loco Joe has ever done. Vote him out!!!

Anon
27 days ago

Decent? He drained the park budget for his wife’s passion project. This isn’t art. It’s a monument to public corruption.

Anon
1 month ago

This, like the rest of the park, will not be maintained. None of the in ground lighting works, portions facing the ocean are literally crumbling into the sea, fountain hasn’t worked in a decade, no connected bay walk, etc etc

Anonymous
1 month ago

Bayfront Park is a different park. Hopefully that will be revitilized next.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Ferré Park is next to “Park West.” Get it? One park is nice. The others are not. Our tax money goes to “Park West,” so it can trickle down to everyone else?

Anoymous
1 month ago

This came out waaaaay better than I anticipated it. I love it! Now let’s please build a kids playground next to it.

Vote Carrollo out
1 month ago

hideous and 1 million of taxpayer money to create it

Anoymous
1 month ago

It brings tourist to the area. It looks nice. It’s good for children and adults. I say it’s a win! Could it cost less? Probably but that’s how things of this scale cost. What is your proposal?

Anon
1 month ago

Repairing the existing features before building new ones?

Anon
1 month ago

Tell me you know absolutely nothing about this project without saying you know absolutely nothing about this project.

Anonymous
1 month ago

The proposal is:

– Raise Miami Circle back up with a Natural History museum on site.

– Add splash fountains, outdoor cafe, and large scale modern art to Southside Park.

– Add large colorful sculpture at the new roundabout on SW3rd

– Line SW 2nd with well lit date palm trees, to connect River District to grand 1SouthsidePark

– Repave crosswalks along family friendly SW2nd with cobblestone, speed bumps and landscaped roundabouts

– Add a rainbow crosswalk on SW2 or something colorful 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

Anonymous
1 month ago

You had me at the last one. I’ve seen cities paint pride intersections a year ago and are scuffed and chipped already.

Anonymous
1 month ago

This is just an initial proposal. We can touch it up even if I have to buy the paint myself and come out on a Saturday. Id settle for a fire hydrant or electric box. Just start with any one of those items please! This community is very hard working, friendly and welcoming.

Anoooooon
1 month ago

Crazy Joe has really outdone himself with this debacle.

Anoymous
1 month ago

When are they going to illuminate that huge head in the park?? I love it but it feels like that area hasn’t been activated yet

Anon
1 month ago

The lighting doesn’t work – hasn’t in years. No money to fix it – they spent the entire budget on this one project.

Tom
1 month ago

Without great parks. Miami has nothing ….. just ask London ,or Paris,…. Or any of the first class cities.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I’m sorry but this is super tacky… if Miami wants to bring tourist to the parks what they really should to is build a grand monumental arch at bayfront park on the waters edge and lining up with Flagler. Miami claims to be the gateway to the americas so why not create a monument immortalizing that. It could also have a colonnade with columns representing the countries of north, south, Central America and the Caribbean. Would be a lot nicer than the torch of friendship monument which due to the city’s incompetency and underfunding isn’t even lit.

Anonymous
1 month ago

It’s not to my own liking, but somehow I can see family tourists lining up to see this and take pics—they’ll see it as yet another reason to visit Miami.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Unfortunately Miami and tacky art is par for the course. See: Brito and the rehashed pop art at every Basel

giorgio righi riva
1 month ago

pure shit, is ok only for childrens

Permitting.
1 month ago

That’s cute. Can we get the elevated glass walkways we were promised?

Anonymous
1 month ago

Glass walkways in downtown? We are still waiting for the electric wires to drop in Brickell. Welcome to Miami.

Permitting
1 month ago

Suppose this is before your time, pumpkin. Check out the original master plan for Museum Park from 2006: http://archive.miamigov.com/planning/docs/plans/MP/Conceptuals.pdf

ParkingHater
1 month ago

Public art is good, actually

Don’t like carollo but a wins a win

Anoymous
1 month ago

Why call it Museum Park if the name has changed?!? I like Museum Park better but call it like it is “Ferrè Park”!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Because NOBODY calls it Ferre Park. Get used to it.

Anoymous
1 month ago

At some point you have to adapt to change. Resisting change is a sign of a weak personality.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Tell that to the community activists “from” Little Haiti who live in Miramar who were up in arms over renaming the neighborhood back to Lemon City and Little River.

MMN
1 month ago

Never will call it by that name. Museum Park always and forever.

Anoymous
1 month ago

Read point above

Anonymous
1 month ago

It was bicentennial park before Museum park… it is called Maurice Ferre Park because Ferre was the father of Modern Miami and many refer to it as such. If you search for directions to museum park, it will correct you to Ferre Park.

Anonymous
1 month ago

By father of “modern” Miami, you mean the mayor who presided over the beginning of its dark age? Considering it’s a few blocks away from 50 Biscayne Tower, which he developed, I suppose it’s more appropriate than examples from other cities, like NYC’s municipal government building and main library being named after the city’s worst mayors, until the last two at least…

anonymous
1 month ago

https://vimeo.com/801389611 see what Manny Medina says about Maurice Ferré…but Im sure you have something against progressive people who give back and create better communities too.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Best Miami Mayor ever. He helped big time to put Miami on the global map!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Nobody wants their neighborhood name changed for the benefit of an outside investor or someone else next door. Look at the buildings or Google Maps to know the name.

There are ethical ways to rebrand that require community support and compensation for sign and marketing changes, if it’s even going to be done. Listen to the community Miami.

Not Joe C
1 month ago

Starting up a tour company right now that will bring tourists here by the droves. Ill be rich.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Move the Cryptobull here.

Downtowner
1 month ago

I actually went there last week with a friend who was in town. It’s cute. There were other people, as well. It’s art that’s approachable to people. I do think there are too many sculptures, though. For more interesting works, head toward the water to see some of Jiménez Deredia’s works.

Anoymous
1 month ago

This is art for the mass. Deredia’s art is for a more refined palate. I’m happy there’s something for everyone!

Downtown Dude
1 month ago

Downtown Miami is a place for everyone not elite snobs. This is art that everyone can enjoy.

Anonymous
1 month ago

I Googled him. Yeah, art for a “more refined palate…” You wonder why people would rather appreciate a replica Renaissance statue made in China over a junk sold for millions at Christie’s and won’t even be remembered ten years down the road.

Joe CARollo
1 month ago

check out these bitches!

Anonymous
1 month ago

Should have had more dogs than cats, they’re better more popular pets.

Anon
1 month ago

Until their owners let them shit on the sidewalk and don’t pick it up.

Anonymous
1 month ago

Live next to somebody’s mutt barking and scratching 24/7 and say that again.

Florida Panther
1 month ago

Everyone should have cats. They eat the rodents and keep the streets clean

Downtowner
1 month ago

Cats rule! 😛