If your stay in Fort Lauderdale is brief, you ll want to spend your time seeing the best the city has to offer. Here are our recommendations. Start your tour where early settlers and Seminoles once traded. Las Olas Boulevard parallels the east-west direction of the New River as it meanders past shops, hotels, restaurants and marinas toward the A1A beaches and the Atlantic.
Museum exhibits simulate a ride to the moon and an e xploration into the human body.
There s also a five-story 3D IMAX Theater . For a more historical perspective of Fort Lauderdale, you can visit the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society Museum on the Riverwalk in the Arts and Science District. An aquarium is to be added in 1999. Other permanent collections i nclude Native American works, West African and Oceanic ethnographic art. Within strolling distance of Las Olas is the Stranahan House , the oldest structure in Fort Lauderdale.