Nasdaq To The Frost Museum: Ring My Bell!
Be on the lookout! The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science has been asked to open the Nasdaq market on Monday morning!
The opening will happen remotely at the museum in Downtown Miami, which opened on May 8th. Dr. Phillip and Patricia Frost will join Frost Science, President Frank Steslow, to ring the Opening Bell.
The Bell ceremony will begin at 9:22am on Monday morning (May 22), according to the press release. The official ringing of the Nasdaq Opening Bell will take place at 9:30am sharp. Please remember that these times are in New York time, not Miami time… don’t miss it!
Frost Science Museum Releases New Interactive Website With Floor Plans
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science has launched a new website to promote the upcoming opening of the Science Museum in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park. The site boasts an opening in Spring of 2017 and has lots of cool features including a floor plan.
In addition to the floor plan, they are garnering interest for all of the exhibits by giving more detail of each area along with a preview of the calendar of events. Membership plans are available for purchase now, with an additional 3 months added as a reward for signing up early. I plan to get the family plan and am really excited to take my son through the exhibits.
Check out the website in its entirety here. Do you plan to join?
Frost Science Museum President Announces “Substantial Completion” For Late 2016
Despite many roadblocks and hurdles over the recent past, the new Patricia and Philip Frost Museum of Science is on track to be substantially completed in 2016, according to Frank Steslow, President of Frost Science. While the actual date of completion is still unknown, they expect to obtain the TCO (temporary certificate of occupancy) in December.
The project was envisioned to be an ultra-modern replacement to the original science museum that was opened in the early 1960’s, and boy, does it deliver! Some of the more intense features include a 500,000 gallon gulfstream aquarium that is open to the sky and visible from all five levels of the museum. It is a replica of the environment in the Gulfstream habitat and will collect and reuse rain water.
Aside from the Gulfstream Aquarium, the museum will have a section for diving birds, a mangrove nursery, a living Indo-Pacific coral tank, an Atlantic reef fish tank and a ray touch pool. Throughout the museum is a “Living Core,” an integration of South Florida’s wildlife, habitats and aquaria. The Core is progressive through each floor so that visitors can visually experience each separate stage, then connecting the five ecosystems.
This announcement is very refreshing after so many months of criticism surrounding the project. There have been delays, funding issues, mismanagement and most recently, lawsuits between the construction firms. I have my fingers crossed that the TCO does in fact come soon and we are able to enjoy our newest park in its entirety.
For the latest construction progress, check out the museum’s live construction cam here.
Frost Science Museum to be Completed by the End of the Year. Seriously.
Photo by Lucas Lechuga.
Construction of the Frost Museum of Science has been a long, slow process, but according to the Miami Herald we are finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Due to a new funding plan put in place, and about $20 million in cuts to exhibits and features, construction on the museum is back on track to be completed by the end of the year. The fish will be put in the aquarium by October to give them time to acclimatize to their new environment, and the Frost Science Museum will open to the public by early next year.
Once the Frost Science Museum opens, its new director Frank Steslow will be firmly in place (Gillian Thomas is stepping down today), and the museum will have to do without a planned $4 million yearly subsidy from the county which has been reprogrammed into a $45 million construction grant. But Miami’s fantastic new science museum will finally be open, and hopefully that will make all the difference.
Frost Museum of Science Construction Back on Track After Money Trouble
Frost Museum of Science, as of last week. Photo by Lucas Lechuga.
Early last week, Miami Condo Investments reported on the glacially slow speed of construction at the Frost Museum of Science in Museum Park, visible over the past few weeks. With their crucial financial bailout in hand, the Frost site looked surprisingly inactive. However, according to a guided construction tour last Friday, the Real Deal says the construction team is really going at it on the immensely complicated interior spaces and technological systems inside the museum, and that is finally spilling out to the exterior as well. Walking by today, we heard the familiar sounds of c construction.
To get closer to completion, the museum is slimming down some of its extras to complete construction, including certain exhibits, but basic work on other exhibitions that will make opening day has already begun. Still however, Museum CEO Gillian Thomas has (perhaps wisely by this point) declined to name an opening date, while still aiming to complete construction by the end of the year.
Frost Museum of Science Construction Appears to be Going Very, Very Slowly
Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science Construction, May 17th. Photo by Lucas Lechuga.
Seen from across the street, construction at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science appears to have hardly progressed in weeks. In fact, if we remember correctly, that chunk of yellow wall paneling on the main facade (or insulation?) was the exact same shape a month ago. So, what happened? On April 5th, county commissioners approved a $49 million bailout for the nearly-bankrupt museum, following a bridge loan given by the Frost family to continue construction. Since then, on May 11th the Frost published an ‘OnSite’ construction update video exploring the features of the planetarium but not actually unveiling any new construction. It’s been over a month now since the big bailout, so what’s happening at the Frost Museum of Science?
