A beach scene built entirely out of children’s building blocks now holds a Guinness World Record in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The Museum of Discovery and Science assembled a magnetic tile mosaic depicting a sunny beach using 4,500 individual tiles, and Guinness has officially certified it as the largest magnet mosaic image ever made.
The record, confirmed at 26.38 square meters, or 283.80 square feet, was achieved on August 1 in Fort Lauderdale by the museum alongside The Original MAGNA-TILES®, according to Guinness World Records. As WSVN 7News reported, museum staff and volunteers worked together to create the mosaic before it earned its official certification.
The museum’s profile extends well past its downtown building. It welcomes more than 450,000 visitors annually from all 50 states and 20 foreign countries, according to Science on Screen, making it one of South Florida’s most visited cultural and educational destinations.
Much of that draw centers on the museum’s AutoNation IMAX 3D Theater, home to South Florida’s only Certified Giant Screen®, a 60-by-80-foot format, and one of roughly 25 active 15/70mm IMAX film projection systems still operating in the United States — a rarity Hoodline previously reported pulls moviegoers from across Florida and beyond.
The museum’s reach also extends off-site. Its fleet of “STEMobile” vans delivers more than 60,000 educational science programs each year to schools and community centers across South Florida. And in November 2024, the museum partnered with the Deerfield Beach Community Redevelopment Agency to design and operate a new 10,000-square-foot Marine Science Center at Sullivan Park focused on coastal ecosystem education.