Nature museum

Photo: Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. For the museum: hmnh.harvard.edu/about-museum

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Completion Date: March 2011 Exhibit Designer: Ralph Appelbaum Associates Incorporated Primary Exhibit Fabricator: Maltbie a Kubik Company Scenic Fabricator: Dixon Studios, LLC Project Details: Dixon Studios, LLC work at the Natural History Museum of Utah included over 2,400 square feet of platform reconstructions and paleo dioramas depicting Utah’s ancient environment.

The World Soil Museum has a unique collection of soil profiles. They tell the story of the invaluable importance of soils to life on earth. The collection and the corresponding data are so precious that the museum has become a UNESCO World Data Centre, the only one in the Netherlands. As the museum was about to move into a brand-new building in the heart of the campus of Wageningen University, they invited Tinker to create a new, permanent presentation. A presentation that meets the demands…

Rochester, Minnesota Opened in 1973, Quarry Hill has served as a nature education center for thousands of school-aged students and the Rochester community as a whole. One of the crown jewels of the City of Rochester's Park system, Quarry Hill Nature Center is seated in the 329-acre Quarry Hill Park

Ed Yong explores Micropia, a museum in Amsterdam that honors microorganisms and their contribution to the human microbiome.

A Nature Museum by Meier Hug Architects combines context sensitivity and harsh concrete

<p>Moment Factory collaborated with the design team at the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) to enhance their “Planet Ice: Mysteries of the Ice Ages” exhibit. To create a new way for visitors to connect and engage, we integrated two touchless, interactive multimedia installations that encourage active participation.</p>

We decided to forego the crazy Christmas shopping and headed as far east as you can go in Salt Lake City, to the Natural History Museum of Utah building. It was magnificent.

Image 27 of 32 from gallery of The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History / Kimmel Eshkolot Architects. Photograph by Amit Geron

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