The Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum occupies the old town hall, a small Mediterranean Revival building that suits the city's carefully cultivated image. Exhibits cover the farming settlement, the Florida East Coast Railway, the land boom, wartime airfield years, and Addison Mizner's outsized influence.
It is a compact museum, but useful if you want Boca to make sense beyond beaches and shopping. Visit before walking Mizner Park and the surrounding downtown blocks; the architecture reads differently once you know what it is trying to reference.