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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
A Science Affair
Miami Science Museum celebrated its eighth annual Gala, A Science Affair, at The Ritz Carlton, Key Biscayne on Saturday, February 27th. Champion benefactors included Philanthropic Chairs Trish and Dan Bell and Gold Sponsor Suffolk Construction Company, Inc. Four honorees were given prestigious awards representing the evening’s theme. Foley Arthur “Jack” Horkheimer received the Lifetime Achievement [...]
Suffolk Construction and Webcor Builders Chosen to Manage Construction of New Museum
The New Miami Science Museum The Miami Science Museum Construction Committee, in conjunction with representatives of the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County, have awarded Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., in partnership with Webcor Builders of San Francisco, the contract to manage construction of the new 250,000 square-foot Miami Science Museum in Miami’s Museum Park. The [...]
