museum News
New attraction for Empire State Building
pete hayman
A new visitor experience has opened on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building in New York, US, to explore the history and construction of the landmark. Carol Willis of New York’s Skyscraper
Museum is curating the new installation, which looks at three themes – speed, scale and steel – in relation to the building. Artefacts include reproductions of pho-
tographs of more than 3,400 people who worked on the project, along with docu- ments and architectural sketches.
Museum of Liverpool opens pete hayman
National Museums Liverpool (NML) has unveiled the new £72m (E82.5m, $117.2m) Museum of Liverpool – one of the largest new-build museum developments in the UK for more than a century. Designed by Denmark-
based architects 3xN, the iconic new facility is also one of the first national museums in the world to focus on the history of a regional city. Te Museum of Liverpool
will be unveiled in phases, with the first now open and featuring the Atrium and the Global City, Little Liverpool, Wondrous Place, Skylight and Te People’s Republic galleries. Four more galler- ies will open later this year. BRC Imagination Arts, Haley Sharpe and
Redman Design are among the companies to be involved with the creation of the exhibitions.
A concept vision of how the museum could look
Four teams to draw up Alberta museum plans
pete hayman
Four teams have been invited to submit plans for the design and build of the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Canada. EllisDon Construction Services; Graham
Design Builders; PCL Construction Management; and Ledcor Design Build (Alberta) are the four to be invited. Due to open in 2015 at a cost of CA$340m
(£219.8m, €248.8m, US$360m), the new Royal Alberta Museum will boast 36,000sq m (387,501sq ſt) of gallery space – twice as much as the existing attraction.
Glasgow’s £74m Riverside Museum launches
tom walker
Te £74m (E84.8m, $120.4m), Zaha Hadid- designed Riverside Museum has opened in Glasgow, UK (see feature on p70). Glasgow Life operates the attraction on
behalf of Glasgow City Council, which houses more than 3,000 exhibits across 150 displays and is Museum of Transport’s third home since opening in the 1960s. BAM Construction started work on site
in 2007. Interiors and theming company Mivan delivered the fit-out and Event mas- terplanning the internal design.
16 Te new £72m attraction (right) was designed by Denmark-based 3xN NML director David Fleming said: “Te
Museum of Liverpool is all about telling the stories of the city and its people. Tis includes times of struggle such as the Toxteth riots, the triumphs of our musical exports including Te Beatles and the dramatic histories of our foot- ball teams.” (See preview in AM Q2 11)
New Dinosaur Hall opens at LA museum pete hayman
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, US, has unveiled its new 14,000sq ſt (1,301sq m) Dinosaur Hall. The new facility features
the T. rex growth series at the heart of the experience, which comprises a fossil trio of the youngest known baby, a juve- nile and a young adult named Tomas, one of the world’s most complete specimens. Among other attractions in
the new Dinosaur Hall is a Triceratops, a Stegosaurus, an Allosaurus, a 68ſt (21m) long- necked Mamenchisaurus and large marine reptiles. Interactive touch screens will allow visitors to take part in simulated palaeontol- ogy and learn about senses and sounds based on a CT scan of a dinosaur brain.
Te
T.rex growth series is at the heart of the museum’s new experience Te opening of the Dinosaur Hall marks the
mid-point of the Natural History Museum’s ‘institutional transformation’, which is to include the launch of an exhibition looking at South California’s natural history in 2012.
Museum of World Buddhism opens in Sri Lanka pete hayman
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaska has officially unveiled the Sri Dalada International Museum of World Buddhism in Kandy. Te attraction – located on the site of Sri Dalada Maligawa – allows visitors to explore
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the history of the Buddhist faith and has been shaped with contributions from 17 countries. Nepal, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, China
and Tailand are among the Buddhist coun- tries to contribute towards the establishment of the museum, which opened on 20 May.
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