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Perhaps friends laughed when you said you were traveling to Miami to get a taste of Egypt, but as you stand inside the Bass Museum of Art in Florida’s only Egyptian gallery, who’s smiling now? In fact, the Bass Museum specializes in art around the world — from the Renaissance to modern art. Founded in 1963 by the City of Miami Beach, it’s housed in the historic 1930s Miami Beach Public Library and Art Center. This museum is considered one of the best museums in Miami for ancient art, right next to the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum and the Lowe Art Museum .

The Egyptian gallery explores fourteen artifacts from ancient Egypt, taking in long-term loans from the Brooklyn Museum, the Lowe Art Museum, as well as private collections. It includes an Egyptian sarcophagus, as well as a mummy. However, the museum offers more than Egypt, such as art work from Cornelis van Haarlem, Peter Paul Rubens, Ferdinand Bol, Armand Guillaumin, and Benjamin West, with English portraits from Thomas Lawrence, George Romney and John Hoppner. It even contains oil paintings by Koffermans, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Seghers, Jordaens, and Makart.

Settle into a boutique Miami hotel , and you’ll be able to explore a number of museums and galleries — not only the Bass Museum of Art, but the Lowe Art Museum in nearby Coral Gables, which offers permanent collections in Greco-Roman antiquities, Renaissance, Baroque, 17th and 19th Century European art, and 19th century American art. There’s also the Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum, which is in the center of the Art Deco District; this is a combination museum, library and research center that has a collection of nearly 120,000 pieces from 1885 to 1945.

In just a couple of days, you can explore ancient Egypt to the Renaissance, then the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries, examining the history of humanity through its objects of art, all near the sunshine and beaches of Miami, Florida.