![]() In conceiving the new exhibits and activity areas, the project design team, joined by BADM’s own research division, eschewed the glaring colors often associated with museum spaces designed specifically for kids. ![]() “The museum builds on this idea by creating an environment where access to that vital learning is explicitly equitable and every visitor has the opportunity to integrate that type of thinking into their life-the potential for where that can lead these children is limitless.” The new How Things Work exhibit (Courtesy Matthew Millman) “We know that children are not exposed to design and engineering at an early enough age, so BADM’s mission to introduce STEM concepts through play and creative experiences is exciting,” Maskin added. In a press statement, Maskin, who also helmed the design of the newly opened ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin (which also employed considerable timber components), said that the renovation project “presented an incredible opportunity to align updated facility and exhibit design with the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s visionary educational theory and practices.” San Francisco-based landscape architecture and urban design firm Surfacedesign, Inc., and museum exhibit design and fabrication practice Pacific Studio, also based in Seattle, were also tapped to round out the larger project team. (Courtesy Matthew Millman)Īlan Maskin, design principal with the Seattle-based Olson Kundig, led the project along with principal and project manager Marlene Chen. (BADM shuttered entirely during the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic, reopening in August 2020.) A new activity space at BADM was completed as part of the $18.5 million makeover. The revamp of the 7.5-acre BADM campus was completed in incremental phases, allowing the museum to remain open to pint-sized visitors and their adult chaperones while renovation work was underway. As part of the Studio, we collaborated with Bell Labs in the creation of an interactive activity called, “Portrait Style Station" Another feature of the museum included the Field Science Paleontology Lab featuring a full-scale simulated dinosaur dig experience, and a unique computer/video game called, “Computer Bone Match”.First announced in early 2019, the transformative $18.5 million overhaul expanded the footprint of the multi-building BADM within its historic location, while yielding five new research-backed permanent exhibits and activity areas, as well as improved amenities as part of the museum’s BOLD: Spark Curiosity, Inspire Innovation capital campaign. Inside, the exhibits use both high and low-tech interactives to trigger the imagination and curiosity of children 0-12 years old in the exploration of their creativity.Īs part of our overall exhibition program for this facility, we created “The Artist’s Studio”, which focused on three artists’ mediums and environments: printmaking, painting and sculpture. Exhibition areas include: Music Studio, Artists’ Studio, Paleontology area including a dig site, and an Inventor’s Studio. SKOLNICK was responsible for the conceptual planning, site selection, and complete architectural and exhibition design for the development of the Creative Discovery Museum, the second cultural destination to be part of a major urban renewal project for the downtown Chattanooga riverfront.ĭevelopment of the major family-oriented museum focused on themes in the Arts and Sciences.
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