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		<title>RFP: Construction Materials Testing Lab Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miami Science Museum is seeking Construction Materials Testing Lab 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIAMI SCIENCE MUSEUM RECEIVES $10 MILLION FROM KNIGHT FOUNDATION FOR NEW BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN MIAMI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science will Engage the Community in Science and Strengthen Local Cultural Complex; Groundbreaking Set for February 24th MIAMI, FLA. – January 4, 2011 – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has committed a challenge grant of $10 million to the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/miami-science-museum-receives-10-million-from-knight-foundation-for-new-building-in-downtown-miami</link>
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		<title>Site Excavation at Museum Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/site-excavation-at-museum-park</link>
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		<title>RFP: Private Provider Inspection Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/rfp-private-provider-inspection-services</link>
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		<title>RFP: Threshold Inspection Consulting Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/rfp-threshold-inspection-consulting-services</link>
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		<title>MiaSci Gets Back to Its Roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/miasci-gets-back-to-its-roots</link>
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		<title>RFQ: Signage and Wayfinding Design Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miami Science Museum is seeking a qualified design firm to provide expertise and design services for the Signage and Wayfinding design package 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/rfq-signage-and-wayfinding-design-services</link>
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		<title>Corals are Animals, Not Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/corals-are-animals-not-plants</link>
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		<title>RFP: Subcontractors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Miami Science Museum is a world-class, state-of-the-art, six story, 250,000 s.f. science and technology facility for education and tourism in Museum Park on the Miami waterfront, to include an approximately 20,000 s.f. aquarium, seeking minimum LEED Gold certification. Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., the Construction Manager, is seeking competent and qualified Subcontractors for the purpose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.miasci.org/blog/rfp-subcontractors</link>
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		<title>Oh, Baby!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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