Last week was the official groundbreaking of the new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Museum Park. Over 300 people and dozens of media attended this very special event. So far, the news is attracting wide attention with high-level media coverage throughout the region, including articles in: The Miami Herald, The Huffington Post, [...]
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Miami Science Museum’s Galaxy Gala & Big Bang Events Were an “Out of This World” Experience
A record-breaking 800 of Miami’s science-savvy socialites gathered in support of the Miami Science Museum’s annual Galaxy Gala & Big Bang events on Saturday, February 18th, to kickoff a weeklong celebration of groundbreaking festivities for the new waterfront museum project. The museum’s signature events, held at the JW Marriott Marquis & Hotel Beaux Arts in [...]
MiaSci Gets Back to Its Roots
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 [...]
Corals are Animals, Not Plants
Miami Science Museum’s 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 2015, now includes a Coral Aquaculture System. The aquaculture system is designed to grow coral colonies [...]
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 [...]
