Boca Raton.com Local community portal: Boca has beautiful Atlantic beaches, gorgeous landscaping and appealing architectural design. Enhancing the landscape is over 40 parks maintained by the city, nature preserves, and 30+ golf courses (public & private). For families, there are outstanding schools, lots of stuff to do with the kids and amazing shopping! Boca has a diverse selection of restaurants, you can eat well every night, for every taste and budget.
The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens: Since its opening in 1977, The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens has been a center for Japanese arts and culture in South Florida, with rotating
exhibitions in its galleries,
tea ceremonies performed monthly in its Seishin-an tea house, an educational
outreach program with local schools and organizations, and Japanese traditional
festivals celebrated for the public several times a year.
The Boca Raton Historical Society and Historic Preservation: Since its founding the Boca Raton Historical Society has been the city’s principle agency for historic preservation. In 1974, as a result of a campaign spearheaded by the BRHS, the city of Boca Raton passed an historic preservation ordinance which created the Boca Raton Historic Preservation Board. In 1979, the BRHS initiated a series of preservation projects with the restoration of the ca. 1914 house, Singing Pines, which was moved and opened as Boca’s first children’s museum. This was followed by the relocation of the ca. 1930 portico of the Cabana Club porte-cochere to South Inlet Park, in 1981. In 1984, the BRHS completed the restoration of the 1927 Town Hall, opening it to the public as a museum. In 1988, the Society celebrated the opening of the restored 1930 FEC Railway Depot, today used daily for civic and educational purposes. In 2004, the BRHS completed the interior restoration of two 1947 streamline rail cars: the Boca Express Train Museum.
