MANILA, Philippines - “Let me introduce to you an idea whose time has come,” from this opening line managing director Manny Blas II revealed some of the featured exhibits in The Mind Museum at Taguig, during the recently held Deed of Donation signing with the 5th batch of museum’s donors.
The Mind Museum at Taguig will be the country’s first world-class science museum. It will rise at the super-prime 12,000-sqm, J.Y. Campos Park in Bonifacio Global City. It will be a showcase of “What we know, how we know it, and what we do with what we know.” Over 250 interactive exhibits will feature science facts and the process of discovery and their applications. They will be told through five main stories, corresponding to the museum’s five main galleries and spanning the entire range of nature’s elements: Atom, Life, Universe, Earth, and Technology. It will be a place where science can be learned in fascinating and entertaining way.
Project proponent, Bonifacio Art Foundation Inc. (BAFI), with a board of trustees composed of individuals from Ayala Land, Inc., Campos Group of Companies, Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA), and a representative from the property owners of Bonifacio Global City welcomed the new batch of donors:
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. will sponsor the Nature’s Hourglass and its featured films “Simula” and “The Making of Simula” in the Earth Gallery; Malampaya Consortium, composed of Shell Phils. Exploration B.V., Chevron Maplampaya LLC, and PNOC Exploration Corp., will sponsor the How-We-Live Node, the Energy Circuit, and the Technology Timeline; Consultancy donors: Davis Langdon & Seah Phils. for the quantity surveying and cost consultancy services; I.A. Campbell Associates for project management; Meinhardt Phils. for façade engineering consultancy; and Vision A&E for coordinated services design review that will help reduce costly change orders during construction phase; Cemex Phils. for the life-size Whale Shark exhibit in the Life Gallery; Dai-ichi Electronics Manufacturing for the speaker audio equipment and services for many of the museum’s areas such as the Theatre, Nature’s Hour Glass, Spaceshell, Technology Gallery Scrim, and Introductory Hall; Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications for the Music Exhibit and the outdoor sculptural exhibits called the Solar Trees; and Architect Lor Calma, one of the pillars of the Philippine modernist movement, will craft and donate an exquisite steel sculpture which will be the centerpiece of the Canopy Plaza.
For more information, visit www.themindmuseum.org or contact Manny Blas at blas.manny@ayalaland.com.ph