![]() ![]() Jacksonville’s Downtown Invest Authority (DIA) unanimously approved plans for the four-acre museum site on the east side of the Shipyards in January a finalized $1 per year ground lease agreement is currently being ironed out with the city, per the Florida Times-Union. (DLR Group/Courtesy MOSH) (DLR Group/Courtesy MOSH) ![]() Early projections have estimated that MOSH will be able to serve 58,000 students (double the pre-pandemic number) and 469,000 visitors (a 168 percent increase) annually by moving into considerably more spacious digs across the river. ![]() ![]() The $85 million–plus MOSH Genesis project will enable the museum to “meet the growing demand for exhibits and programs that inspire innovation” with dedicated spaces for exhibitions, events, educational programming. A previously announced $80 million plan to further expand and renovate MOSH’s Southbank campus was ultimately scrapped, and the relocation scheme was first announced in October 2020. Despite the major late 1980s expansion and subsequent renovations, MOSH has steadily outgrown its 77,000-square-foot home, necessitating an entirely new museum building at the Jacksonville Shipyards. In 1988, the nonprofit institution was bestowed with its current name following a significant expansion and renovation project that included the addition of the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium (formerly the Alexander Brest Planetarium). MOSH was first chartered as the Jacksonville Children’s Museum in 1941, becoming the Jacksonville Museum of Arts & Sciences in 1977. “We are thrilled to partner with MOSH, kasper, and SCAPE to help bring this project to the community.”Īdditional design details from DLR Group are forthcoming.Īs previously reported by AN, MOSH-the most popular museum in Florida’s most populous city-has been situated at its beloved but aging current facility along the Southbank Riverwalk since the late 1960s. “This transformational reimagining of the museum reinforces MOSH’s role as a vital civic institution and a destination for accessible, immersive and technologically advanced experiences, while honoring its historic commitment to education,” added Vanessa Kassabian, principal and senior design leader with DLR Group. In a statement MOSH CEO Bruce Bafard heralded the team’s design as being “immediately recognizable” and surpassing “what we had imagined for the iconic Museum that our community deserves.” (DLR Group/Courtesy MOSH) Visitors enter the building through a soaring glazed atrium that “provides visibility toward the exhibitions, immersive theaters, and educational spaces while also providing a dynamic, light-filled space that draws people into the heart of the building.” The design, the museum continued, “integrates internal exhibitions with the public realm by providing exterior space for exhibitions and programming.” As noted in a press announcement unveiling the design, this spiral circulation path “fluidly” connects MOSH’s three core exhibition spaces: Natural Ecosystem, the Cultural Ecosystem, and the Innovation Ecosystem. The building rises from the riverfront via a series of terraces with a spiraling circulation ramp connecting the lower level to a rooftop terrace that features a sheltered event space and, of course, offers sweeping views of downtown Jacksonville and beyond. Johns River in the revitalized Jacksonville Shipyards. Inspired by the “movement and flow of water,” the design concept of the new museum complex pays homage to its prominent location along the Northbank of the St. Joining DLR group for the so-called MOSH Genesis Project is local firm kasper architects + associates and SCAPE. ![]()
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