New Miami Science Museum
With the passage of the General Obligation Bond in November 2005, the people of Miami-Dade County approved $175 million to create a new Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium as part of a new cultural quarter in a revitalized city center. The City of Miami has 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. Alongside our sister project, the new Miami Art Museum, and in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Museum Park will combine science, art and history, in an unparalleled waterfront experience at the heart of the renaissance of downtown Miami.

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London firm named to design science museum
The architectural competition to design the new, $275 million Miami Science Museum in Bicentennial Park concluded Wednesday in a near photo finish, with the museum's selection committee ranking as its first choice the London-based firm of Grimshaw Architects. The close vote disappointed some in the audience who had urged the eight-member panel to select 2004 Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid, who ranked a close second. San Francisco-based architect Steven Holl's firm was ranked third by the committee, which met in a public forum over two days at the museum on South Miami Avenue.