Here are our favorite cultural experiences and learning adventures in Palm Beach County.  From museums and theatres to art galleries and photographic centers, arts and cultural institutions abound in The Palm Beaches!

Gardens

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens

Located in the historic EL Cid Neighborhood, the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens comprise the former residence of sculptor Ann Weaver Norton, the widow of Ralph Hubbard Norton. The house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Recognized as one of the largest public collections in Florida, the two-acre property features a collection of over 250 rare palm species, cycads and unusual tropical plants.

Mounts Botanical Garden

Mounts Botanical Garden is a 16-acre living plant museum with 25 spectacular display gardens and over 7,000 species. Imagine strolling through a tropical paradise where ever-changing beauty promotes a sense of awe and relaxation. The Garden also features permanent sculptures, exhibits, events, a thrift shop, a welcome center, and a nursery filled with Florida natives, butterfly plants, ornamentals, and more.

Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens

Immerse yourself in Japanese culture at Delray Beach’s Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, which recognizes a long-standing connection between Japan and The Palm Beaches. This connection dates to 1904 when Jo Sakai led a small group of farmers to pioneer a settlement in what is now northern Boca Raton. They named their colony the Yamato Colony after an ancient name for Japan. The settlement was short-lived and the pioneers began dispersing in the 1920s, but today’s Morikami celebrates and honors that history by continuing to share Japanese culture with the public.

Theaters & Performing Arts

Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

Located in downtown West Palm Beach, the Raymond F. Kravis Center is one of the premier performing arts centers in the Southeast with three venues: the 2,195-seat Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall, the flexible 289-seat Rinker Playhouse and the 170-seat Helen K. Persson Hall.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre

As Florida’s largest award-winning not-for-profit professional regional theatre, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre produces spectacular year-round entertainment featuring Broadway-caliber musicals, dramatic works, concerts, family programming and classes for all ages at its Goldner Conservatory of Performing Arts. The Theatre draws 100,000 people annually.

Palm Beach Dramaworks

Founded in 2000, Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional nonprofit theatre company located in downtown West Palm Beach. Their mission is to engage and entertain audiences with provocative and timeless productions that personally impact each individual. Palm Beach Dramaworks is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life through the transformative power of live theatre.

Arts Garage

Located in downtown Delray Beach, Arts Garage is a multi-disciplinary cultural center that proudly presents Grammy award-winning musicians, top-notch arts education and outreach programs, and a spacious visual art gallery that displays emerging local talent.

SunFest Music Festival

Founded in 1982, SunFest is Florida’s largest waterfront music and art festival. The festival is held in Downtown West Palm Beach, attracting more than 100,000 visitors annually. Its strong reputation is due to the noteworthy artists it has featured in the past, and 2024 is no exception! This year, the event runs from May 3 to May 5, 2024.

Art Centers

Armory Art Center

Housed in what was once a National Guard Armory, the Armory Art Center is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 with the goal of ensuring the continuation of practical art instruction in Palm Beach County. The art center organizes art exhibitions, art classes and workshops taught by national and international visiting master artists. The center offers classes and workshops in a multitude of departments, including ceramics, digital media, drawing, and jewelry.

Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery & School of Art

The Lighthouse ArtCenter offers engaging exhibitions and cultural programs, a dynamic School of Art, and diverse outreach activities. The Lighthouse ArtCenter is also a unique canvas on which to create a memorable event, with over 5,000 square feet of space, a catering kitchen, ample parking and a one-of-a-kind venue surrounded by fabulous original works of art.

Resource Depot

A non-profit organization, Resource Depot strives to reduce waste in Palm Beach County by recycling unwanted materials. The organization collects donations from businesses and individuals and redistributes them to people and other non-profit organizations that need them. Through workshops and fun classes, Resource Depot encourages its visitors to have fun with diverse materials, inspiring children and adults to express their creativity. The organization has also a market—TreasuRE—where visitors can purchase renewed and reinvented one-of-a-kind items or newly-packaged goods.

Community Learning Centers & Cultural Institutions

Mandel JCC Boynton Beach

The mission of the Mandel Jewish Community Center of the Palm Beaches is to build community and enhance connection to Jewish life. The center offers high-quality Jewish cultural arts such as the Jewish Film Festival. Founded in 1990, the Jewish Film Festival brings the finest examples of cinema from around the world to South Florida. Some of the films focus on Jewish issues, others spotlight Jewish achievement and valor.

Rohi’s Readery

Rohi’s Readery is a social justice driven children’s bookstore and learning center committed to critical literacy that promotes inclusivity and diversity. Rohi’s Readery strives to honor the everyday stories of historically marginalized communities through free educational programming, DEIA resources, and more.

The Society of the Four Arts

Founded in 1936, the Society of the Four Arts is a nonprofit cultural organization and one of Palm Beach’s oldest and most respected cultural destinations. It offers a dynamic lineup of engaging and inspiring cultural programming, including art exhibitions, notable speakers, concerts, films, and educational programs. The 10-acre campus along the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach includes a performance hall, an art gallery designed by famed architect Addison Mizner, a modern education center devoted to lifelong learning, a library, a children’s library, and beautiful sculpture gardens designed in 1938.

Museums

Boca Raton Museum of Art

The Boca Raton Museum of Art is a leading cultural institution in South Florida, achieving international recognition for its dynamic changing exhibitions and distinguished permanent collection. The Boca Raton Museum of Art encompasses a creative campus that includes the Museum in Mizner Park and the Art School. Its several public programs include artist presentations, family activities and more than 100 classes per week.

Cox Science Center and Aquarium

The Cox Science Center and Aquarium features 100-plus educational exhibits, a 10,000-gallon aquarium, a full-dome digital planetarium, a quarter mile-long science trail, a mini-golf course, traveling exhibits, and much more. A hands-on, minds-on experience for the whole family!

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum offers climbing tours of the 1860 Lighthouse and the best views in Palm Beach County! There, you can discover over 5000 years of history strolling along native plant pathways with cell phone apps or on docent-led tours. Join fun educational programs at this national heritage site!

The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum

The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum is headquartered in Historic Town Hall, built in 1927 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There, you can learn more about the rich history of Boca Raton through tours, galleries, and more.

Yesteryear Village

Nestled on 9 acres inside the South Florida Fairgrounds, Yesteryear Village is a recreated historic village with 20 historic structures including a church, country store, artifacts from the State of Florida & museums. The quaint town is alive in Florida history where you’re transported to a different era, a simple life.

Norton Museum of Art

Founded in 1941 by Ralph Hubbard Norton and his wife Elizabeth Calhoun Norton, the Norton Museum of Art showcases a permanent collection with more than 8,200 works in five curatorial departments: European, American, Chinese, Contemporary and Photography.

Henry Morrison Flagler Museum

The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum offers tours of Henry M. Flagler’s Gilded Age-era estate, Whitehall. Completed in 1902 and used by Flagler and his wife as a winter retreat until 1913, the 100,000-square-foot mansion is today a National Historic Landmark. The museum has restored Whitehall in all its gilded glamour, and highlights Flagler’s accomplishments in shaping Florida’s history and America’s Gilded Age. Changing exhibitions and special programs are offered throughout the Palm Beach season, and visitors can climb aboard Flagler’s private Railcar No. 91 which dates to 1896.

Animal Encounters

Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Busch Wildlife Sanctuary is a nonprofit care facility for injured animals that brings wildlife and people together to develop community awareness of the value of Florida’s natural resources. Tucked away in Jupiter, this organization rescues, rehabs, and releases Florida’s native wildlife and educates Palm Beach County locals, visitors and beyond on the protection and conservation of Florida’s natural resources and Florida’s wildlife, including bobcats, panthers, black bears, deer, foxes, and bald eagles, to name a few.

Loggerhead Marinelife Center

A short drive north of West Palm Beach is Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach. Dedicated to sea turtle education, research and rehabilitation, the center contains both static displays and a state-of-the-art hospital. Year-round education programs are available, and visitors can “adopt” a recovering sea turtle for a donation.

Taras Oceanographic Foundation

Founded in 1998, Taras Oceanographic Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims at empowering citizens to advocate for the conservation of dolphins and the marine environment. Through its programs, research and education, Taras increases awareness about the threats faced by dolphins and the oceans and assures the long-term survival of both people and the ocean. Visitors of the Taras Oceanographic Foundation can enjoy the magnificence of wild dolphins and other marine life through fun and educative watch tours lead by dolphin experts.

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Photographic Centers

Palm Beach Photographic Centre

Palm Beach Photographic Center is a nonprofit photographic and digital imaging, cultural, art and education center dedicated to the enrichment of life through photography. It boasts a museum, a gallery, computer labs and a retail shop, as well as rotating exhibitions, workshops, lectures, family and children’s events.