The land the Museum is currently on was once part of the Vizcaya estate. In the early 1900s, before the Museum was constructed, the estate utilized the land to grow fruit and vegetables, including oranges, mangoes, kumquats, beans, cabbage, potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Nearby, chickens, turkeys, ducks, guineas and cows were raised for dairy and [...]
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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 [...]
Oh, Baby!
Recently, one of the Museum’s yellow stingrays gave birth to two healthy babies in the stingray touch tank! The yellow stingray is a bottom-dwelling species that inhabits sandy, muddy or seagrass bottoms in shallow waters, often near coral reefs. During the day, yellow stingrays are relatively inactive and spend a lot of time buried [...]
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 [...]
Moving Things Just Got FUN at Miami Science Museum
Are we there yet? Miami Science Museum recently launched a new exhibit Moving Things sponsored by locally based transportation and logistics industry leader Ryder, and its charitable foundation. This fun, hands-on exhibition focuses on how things move from place to place – sometimes easily – sometimes with great effort…but always full of surprises. This will [...]
New Hands-on Sea Lab Exhibit Will Give Visitors Up Close and Personal View of Live Sea Life
Miami Science Museum visitors are encouraged to get wet! The Museum recently opened its new exhibit, 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). Sea [...]
