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The American Museum of Natural History plans to open an insectarium in 2020 as part of a new 235,000-square-foot facility.
The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation’s Insectarium will be “the first museum gallery dedicated to insects in more than 50 years,” according to The Architect’s Newspaper.
The $340 million building also will house the museum’s Butterfly Vivarium, Invisible World’s Immersive Theater and the newly revealed Collection Core at the heart of the center. A meadow and pond are slated to live inside the vivarium, which will contain live butterfly species.
The number of insects for visitors to observe and scientists to research will total 3.9 million, according to Newsday.com. The center also will offer its visitors tools and methods entomologists use to examine insects.
“Who knows how many great scientists have not manifested for the absence of opportunity,” Neil deGrasse Tyson, the museum’s astrophysicist, tells Curbed.
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