The highlight of The Universe gallery will be the Spaceshell (left), a mini- planetarium where visitors will learn about how space began
Small and The Story of the Technology: The Showcase of Human Ingenuity. The fi rst four stories will cover the sim-
plest – the cell – to the most complex – the brain. Everything will be covered from atoms, to the universe, to the breadth of natural history and the depth of various life forms of the world around us. Technology – the fi fth story – describes human ingenuity and showcasing the tools that result from our knowledge of the fi rst four stories: that is, what we do with what we know.
HOW DID YOU DECIDE ON THE TOPICS TO BE COVERED?
The curator, Maribel Garcia, thought that it would be best to present science in terms of scale from the smallest, like the atom, to the biggest, which is the universe, and everything in between.
HOW WILL THE MUSEUM BE DEVELOPED IN THE FUTURE TO ENCOURAGE REPEAT VISITS?
The Mind Museum aims to make sci- ence come alive by having more than 200 interactive exhibits and changing exhibits, which visitors can come back for. If you spend a minute per exhibit, it will take you three hours to visit them all, so people aren’t expected to look at absolutely everything in one visit.
WHAT WILL BE THE HIGHLIGHT?
Each gallery will have its own centrepiece. The Atom gallery will have a fascinating 360-degree visualisation of the atom. The Universe gallery will have the Spaceshell, a mini-planetarium where visitors will learn about the beginning of the universe. The Earth gallery will have Nature’s Hourglass: a mini-theatre where visitors will see Birthplace, an enthralling 12-minute, fully animated fi lm of 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history. The Life gallery will have The Human Brain exhibit. It is one of the largest exhibits in the museum showing what lights in our brains when
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we fall in love, get angry, or eat choco- late. The Technology gallery will have the Human Face of Technology, featuring uploaded videos of people describing their favourite technology.
WILL THE MUSEUM HAVE ANY ALTERNATIVE USES?
The museum will have a theatre, class- rooms (called Mind Pods) and laboratories, where founders can hold corporate training sessions and other educational meetings for schools.
HOW IS IT SUSTAINABLE?
The building in itself is green technology. The roof of the museum can collect rain- water for fl ushing and watering the plants. The museum is designed to be environ- mentally friendly. We also have local fabricators doing the exhibits.
WHAT STAGE IS THE PROJECT AT?
We are fi nished with the design of the building and exhibition, and about to start
construction. We’re scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of 2011.
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?
It is a fi rst, here in the Philippines, to build a world-class science museum. We have the privilege of meeting the challenges of all the fi rsts, such as getting the private sectors involved, having the best team to make this happen, and, most importantly of all, to give the Philippines a science museum they will be truly proud of.
HOW WAS FUNDING RAISED?
The museum is costing 1bn Philippines Pesos (£14.6m, US$22.5m, 16.7m)). The Bonifacio Art Foundation Inc has provided the seed money and the rest has been contributed by a number of corporate and private donors, includ- ing Ajinomoto, Ayala Land Inc, Ayala Foundation, BPI, Del Monte, HSBC, Hapee Toothpaste, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Shell, Sony, St. Luke’s, Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Timezone and Uratex. ●
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