MCM is working through a $20 million refresh.
An Interpretative Master Plan by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership sets ourtchanges to be completed by 2018.
Exhibits include:
- The Bank of America. Opened in November 2016, interactive technology and digitization introduces kids to the concepts of money.
- A mini Publix Super Market where kids get to shop, check out and create a healthy recipe.
- The Baptist Children’s Hospital Health and Wellness Center lets children try virtual fitness activities.
- The Port of Miami teaches kids about import/ export
- The My Green Home exhibit features a renewable energy technologies.
- The Sketch Aquarium - an interactive virtual aquarium that scans and animates a child’s crayoned fish.
- The Music Gallery features a symphony room and a “Big Piano” like the one in the Tom Hanks film “BIG.”
- In 2017, an Everglades exhibit and a water play area will be added to teach kids about about sea level rise, created with the help of Florida International University.
- Due for completion in late 2018 will be a new entry building.
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Rachel Read
Rachel is co-founder and strategic director at blooloop. She has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, is a Chartered Accountant and has certificates in Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility from London Business School, and Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative from Cambridge University's Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Rachel oversees our news, events and sustainability.
