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The museum is open Thursday through Sunday. “We have very strict cleaning protocols to keep everyone safe,” Fafard said. In addition to that, summer camps are on the way. Others are planned for both the summer and the fall. Fafard says there’s currently a traveling exhibit. While plans for the new building are still in the works, a lot of fun things are still going on at the current one. “If we do, then you will see a ceremony with a shovel in the ground before the end of 2021,” Fafard said. He also says if the team can work it out with the Downtown Investment Authority to access the land this year, that’s when things will take off. The goal is to have a contract on the table by June. That number will be whittled down to around three in the coming weeks. He says roughly 35% has already been raised or promised, but the fundraising efforts are ongoing.įafard says right now, the team is working to hire an architect. “Because music is very important to Jacksonville and its history.”įafard says the price tag is about $85,000,000. “We hope to have a maker space where you’re going to be able to go in and maybe, build your own musical instrument,” Fafard said. Fafard says another goal is to have multiple maker spaces throughout the new museum, including a cultural side. “Visitors can come in, students will be able to come in and take samples of the water, and go into the water lab and really understands what’s in that water.” “To support that, we’ll actually have a water lab,” Fafard said.
One feature will be an aquifer to represent the St. He says the new museum will allow visitors to have a truly hands-on experience. Visitors have seen the current exhibits, but Fafard says many of them remain static, and they seldom change. So when you come, you’ll experience something completely different.” Portions of those exhibits will actually change during the course of the year. With a new facility on the horizon, CEO Bruce Fafard, says the sky is the limit. MOSH is known for expanding curious young minds. But now, the plan for an all-new museum is in place. The original plan was to renovate and expand the current MOSH building on the Southbank, a project that became known as MOSH 2.0. – The city’s famous Museum of Science and History is ramping up its plans to build and move to a new building at the Jacksonville Shipyards.
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