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An Apollonaut travel guide
The place behind the detail.
A volunteer project, a planetarium in Coconut Grove and a new campus by the bay offer several ways into the story of Frost Science.
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Built by volunteers
The Junior League of Miami opened the Junior Museum of Miami in 1950, with donated and loaned exhibits, such as a hive of live honeybees. In 1952 it moved to the Miami Women’s Club building.
In 1960 the museum moved into a new building in Coconut Grove, where the Space Transit Planetarium opened in 1966 and stayed in use until 2015.
A new museum
Phillip and Patricia Frost gave $35 million towards a new museum in 2011. Designed by Grimshaw Architects, it opened in 2017 on four acres of Museum Park, now Maurice A. Ferré Park.
Its four buildings hold the Aquarium, the Frost Planetarium and the North and West Wings of galleries, and the museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.
From the ocean to outer space
The museum sets out to take visitors from the ocean to the Everglades and from the human cell to outer space, with a 500,000-gallon Gulf Stream Aquarium at its heart.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
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