{"id":403874,"date":"2026-09-18T19:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403874\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:48:46","slug":"100-years-later-miami-museum-exhibit-looks-back-at-devastating-1926-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403874\/","title":{"rendered":"100 years later, Miami museum exhibit looks back at devastating 1926 hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI  \u2014 A century after a devastating hurricane tore through Miami, a <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofmiami.org\/exhibition\/caught-in-the-eye\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/museumofmiami.org\/exhibition\/caught-in-the-eye\/\">temporary museum exhibit<\/a> is giving visitors a glimpse into what it was like to experience one of the most significant events in the city\u2019s early history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/18\/exhibicion-de-museo-de-miami-recuerda-devastador-huracan-de-1926-100-anos-despues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/18\/exhibicion-de-museo-de-miami-recuerda-devastador-huracan-de-1926-100-anos-despues\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve gone 100 years past what was one of the most monumental moments in early Miami history. This storm,\u201d said Dr. Paul George, resident historian at the <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofmiami.org\/exhibition\/caught-in-the-eye\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/museumofmiami.org\/exhibition\/caught-in-the-eye\/\">Museum of Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The hurricane struck in mid-September 1926, bringing a 12-hour weather event with two storm phases that would kill hundreds of people and leave more than 40,000 homeless \u2014 nearly half of Miami\u2019s population at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">George said the storm was devastating even when compared with Hurricane Andrew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEven Andrew, as bad as it was, it was in some ways much more spread out in terms of the areas that it hit,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 1926 hurricane also destroyed Miami\u2019s first building boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The temporary exhibit at the Museum of Miami, described as the city\u2019s oldest cultural institution, uses photographs, newspapers, letters and other materials to tell the story of the storm and its impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a huge collection of photographs, newspapers, letters, all that reflect the influence of this hurricane,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The exhibit also includes an interactive component. Visitors can pick up phones and listen to accounts describing what it was like to live through the hurricane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The storm struck long before modern weather technology, and most Miami residents did not know it was coming, leaving them without the ability to prepare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">George hopes the exhibit serves as more than a history lesson and reminds visitors of the dangers hurricanes can pose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI guess illuminate people further on how lethal these storms can be and how we need to be ready for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The temporary exhibit will remain on display through April 11.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 A century after a devastating hurricane tore through Miami, a temporary museum exhibit is giving visitors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-403874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}