Wish You Where Here

Wish You Were Here: Tourism in the Palm Beaches

November 15, 2024 - June 28, 2025
Richard & Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum

This season, the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum invites visitors to dive into the evolution of our 150-year-old tourism industry. In 1875, this region was a pristine paradise, and the first visitors ventured south for the thrill of the hunt. Though Palm Beach County still attracts tourists for its natural beauty, its offerings have blossomed and diversified to include nearly every recreational opportunity under the sun.

Wish You Were Here explores this development and how the business of fun and games and R&R still shapes and enriches the lives of tourists and residents today.

Admission:
Non-member Adults $12
HSPBC members FREE
18 & younger FREE

Wish You Were Here will transport you with celebrities, artifacts, and stories about experiences that residents enjoy year-round. Every day in paradise is an opportunity to be a tourist at home. Play tennis after work or attend a golf tournament. Feel pampered at a resort spa. Take a weekend cruise. Enjoy cuisine from every corner of the world. Chill on the beach. Take in a museum exhibit! 

Using new technologies, Wish You Were Here will allow visitors to get up close and personal with history. Flip through the pages of a 140-year-old diary on your phone. Listen to the jazz music that emanated from the Sunset Lounge nearly a century ago. View never-before-exhibited paintings by the Highwaymen. Learn the evolution of America’s national pastime, baseball, in Palm Beach County and see memorabilia from the region’s most prominent players of golf, tennis, and polo.

The Historical Society of Palm Beach County and the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum offer their thanks to those who helped make possible Wish You Were Here.
Host Committee

Daphne Nikolopoulos (Chair)
Michael Aram
Lindsay Autry
Christine Aylward
Amy and Bret Baier
Lori Berg
Katherine and Daniel Boulud
Sebastian Clarke
Mira Fain
Annie Falk
Nacho Figueras

Beth and Dr. Robert Fishel
Janet and Wayne Gretzky
Bruce Helander
Daniel Hostettler
Katherine Lande
Paul Leone
Susan Magrino
Barbara and Jack Nicklaus
Allison and Jack Nicklaus Jr.
Milly and Patrick Park
Katherine Parr

Amy Phelan
Michael Prince
Luke Reissman
Laura and Byron Russell
David Sabin
Milton Segarra
Jessica Shapiro
Mish Tworkowski
Katherine Van Dell
Sarah Wetenhall
Michael Zeff

Artist in Residence
Contributing Writer

Rick Rose

Junior Committee

Skye Sherman (Chair)
Collin Santini Adams
Bettina Anderson
Caroline Bramlett Broome
Tyler Cameron
Sophie Chateauvert
Christina Coniglio

Adam Gold
Ryan Hollihan
Logan Horne
Jamal Lake
Ben Leone
Kendall Livingston
Pushkar Marathe

Olivia Meyer
Amanda Mizell
Kim Murstein
Emma Richter
Taylor Thomas Smythe
Grace Walker

Title Sponsor

Media Sponsor

Palm Beach Illustrated

Main Contributing Partners