Recently, surveyors, contractors and engineers visited the future home of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, scheduled to open in Museum Park in 2015, to inspect and excavate the land and prepare it for construction. The purpose of the excavation was to determine any points of interference between the remnants of the old [...]
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RFP: Private Provider Inspection Services
Miami Science Museum is seeking Private Provider Inspection Services for the new $275 million Miami Science Museum to be located in Museum Park in Miami, Florida. This new highly sustainable facility will include a planetarium, aquarium, both indoor and outdoor flexible space for science exhibits, as well as educational facilities. Miami Science Museum will make [...]
RFP: Threshold Inspection Consulting Services
Miami Science Museum is seeking Threshold Inspection Consulting Services for the new $275 million Miami Science Museum to be located in Museum Park in Miami, Florida. This new highly sustainable facility will include a planetarium, aquarium, both indoor and outdoor flexible space for science exhibits, as well as educational facilities. Miami Science Museum will make [...]
Corals are Animals, Not Plants
The MiaSci Sea Lab, an indoor/outdoor exhibit that gives visitors a taste of some of the exciting aquarium components being planned for the new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, scheduled to open in Museum Park in 2014, now includes a Coral Aquaculture System. The aquaculture system is designed to grow coral colonies from [...]
MiaSci’s Fernando Bretos Awarded Kinship Conservation Fellowship
Fernando Bretos, Director of Miami Science Museum’s Reclamation Project and member of the new Museum team, was one of 17 individuals worldwide selected as a Kinship Conservation Fellow. Of the 2011 cohort, seven originate from the United States, and the remaining 11 are from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Peru, Romania, Sierra Leone [...]
A Grove of Mangroves
The MiaSci Sea Lab, an indoor/outdoor attraction that gives visitors a taste of some of the exciting aquarium components being planned for the new Museum, scheduled to open in Museum Park in 2014 (Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science), recently got some new inhabitants: native red and black mangroves. The mangrove nursery will serve [...]
