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November 2004
With the passage of the General Obligation Bond in November 2004, the people of Miami-Dade County approved $175 million to create a new Miami Science Museum as part of a new cultural quarter in a revitalized city center. The City of Miami also passed a resolution to provide 4 acres of downtown's Bicentennial Park for the Museum and issued $3.5 million to support the new Museum's site development.
May 2007
Following an international search, review by the Museum’s selection committee, and a multi-day public forum, the London-based firm of Grimshaw Architects was appointed to design the new Miami Science Museum. Rodriguez & Quiroga of Miami was appointed to serve as Executive Architects.
April 2008
The Miami Science Museum signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County, creating the legal framework for the waterfront park and its two museums, the new Miami Science Museum, and the new art museum. Miami-Dade County signed the contract to begin the release of funding from the General Obligation Bond.
June 2008
The Museum was awarded $738,000 from the Department of Energy to carry out the research, design and planning necessary for integrating renewable energy resources and optimal energy efficiencies into the new Museum building. The project will also develop methods of communicating concepts about energy sources and uses to the general public, through an outdoor Energy Playground. The City of Miami is providing match funding of $738,000 to create the Energy Playground, whose components will ultimately move to the new site.
September 2008
The Miami Science Museum Board of Directors approved a program for the new Museum encompassing 250,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor spaces, centered around a ‘living core’ of aquatic and terrestrial exhibits, and including permanent and traveling exhibit space, a Learning Center, a Planetarium, an Energy Center, an Entertainment Suite/Studio Theater, a Music and Sound Studio, café and atrium spaces, staff facilities, and back-of-house spaces. The program also includes 25,000 square feet for the Historical Museum of South Florida.
October 2008
Following a competitive selection process, the Museum appointed THInc Design, a leading exhibition design firm based in New York City, to work with Grimshaw Architects on the concept design of the new Museum’s aquarium components.
December 2008
Miami City Commissioners approved the Lease Agreement for the new Museum at downtown Museum Park...
January 2009
The Miami Science Museum Board of Directors approved the concept design for the new Museum. The concept design incorporates the aquarium and living core components and...
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