From What We Know to How We Know It: Connecting people to research that affects their daily lives.

The 80,000 square-foot Nature Research Center will be a new wing of the Museum, conveniently located across the street from the current Museum building. The focus of the Museum has been to showcase what we know, with exhibits and programs highlighting scientific knowledge gleaned from long-term research. With the construction of the Nature Research Center, Museum staff plans to share how we know it — bringing scientific research to the forefront. Students, teacher and the general public will have the unprecedented opportunity to see for themselves how research is conducted. By bringing research scientists and their work to the layperson’s everyday world, staff will demystify what may have seemed to be an intimidating field of study.

With the new Nature Research Center featuring current science research, and the Museum interpreting the knowledge resulting from such research, visitors will be able to see how the information is each linked to the other regardless of where their journey begins.

Nature Research Center Fact Sheet (PDF)