Mind museum

INTRODUCTION

Racing back to its roots, mind museum was offiacially opened to public some

time on 2012; many people somehow loved it because it was the very first science

museum of its scale and scope in the Philippines. it offered a lot of knowledge
giving facts to its every visitor. based also on its offiacial site, "the Mind Museum

would like to help give the next generation of Filipinos this currency of mind.

While The Mind Museum is not a substitute for schools, we would like to help

breed scientific literacy that will help everyone, whoever you are and whatever

you are doing in life, to be inspired to understand nature". the museum will not

only give the knowledge on every invention that they created but they also

guarantee that they will give you the satisfactory feeling of enjoyment in every

section of the museum that you are in. i believe that the museum is very

interactive and is very beneficial to everyone, all people, not just children will

sure enjoy the museum at its best.

it was actually my first time to go in the mind museum, it was also a mixture of

shock disbelief and eventual acceptance of reality that this is it!!! no backing out,

i hought that the travel will take a lot of time, but to my surprise it only took for

about an hour. i was really astonished about how they created it, and i was like "

is this for real? i felt like i was in los Angeles" . To be honest, it was really a life

changing experience! i had fun, i enjoyed and i savored every moment. my block

mates took a lot of pictures, picture there and picture there, and me, nothing really

significant happened to me, as usual, was just in the corner doing some unusual

stuffs, coz I’m not really into pictures. as we go through every section of the
 museum, we interacted with different kinds of inventions, facts and articles that

are something new, something that we never heard before. her learning is

educational and at the same time learning is fun!...

BACKGROUND

Background Museum: The McNeil Museum of Art (MMA) is a not-for-

profit museum founded in the city of Universal, in the western United States.

Originally chartered in 1925, under the founding name Fannel County Museum of

Fine Arts, the museum went through a name change in 2000 to reflect the

museum’s main benefactor, Jonathon A. McNeil. Before the museum went

through a name change, however, in 1997 MMA benefited from a $28 million

dollar bond election. This election allowed MMA to expand their facilities in a

newer building located in the central business district of Universal City. The

newer location was made available to MMA through Jonathon A. McNeil.



Upon Jonathon A. McNeil’s death in 2000, the museum received a $25

million gift from his will so long as the museum’s charter and name was revised.
The updated charter stated that the MMA’s purpose was, “to provide an inviting

setting for the appreciation of art in its historical and cultural contexts for the

benefit of this and successive generations of Fannel County citizens and visitors

(pg. 579, Kerin).” Visitors can visit the MMA seven days a week, with extended

hours on Thursday nights and shorten hours on Sundays. While the permanent

collection is free of charge to the public, visitors can pay a fee of $5.00-$7.50 to

see the MMA special exhibits.

The museum was designed by architect Ed Calma, from Lor Calma & Partners.

The design of the structure was inspired from cellular structure and growth and

had a solar reflective exterior, natural wind ventilation and rainwater flow

drainage.

As of 2012, the museum has five main galleries occupying a 4,900 square metres

(53,000 sq ft) exhibit area and spanning 2 floors. The galleries each had its own

theme namely, atom, life, earth, universe and technology which are linked by

features called "Nature’s Webways". The atom, life, earth, univers galleries are

located on the first floor while the technology gallery are found in the first floor

of the two story museum.[2][4]

With assistance from a firm based in the United States, which did the master plan

of the museum, Filipino designers, scientists and fabricators did 90 percent of the

museum's exhibits.[4] The designers included designers and faculty from the

College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines and the University of

Santo Tomas.

OBJECTIVES

.I had the pleasure of visiting The Miami Art Museum and was very impressed by

what I encountered and viewed. I have never found interest in art until I got to see

the museum. Throughout my exploration at the Miami Art Museum I was able to

view a wide selection of art. In this venture, I viewed the most beautiful artwork I

had ever seen, observed interesting non European/North American art, was

alarmed by the most disturbing works , explored a breath taking exhibition, and

actually found work that I would actually take home with me. To begin, from the

many pieces of artwork I was able to view at the Miami Art Museum, I can

honestly say that I chose a very distinct piece as the most beautiful. In my

opinion, the most beautiful piece is an art work made mainly from wood and

some scrap metals. The artwork is titled “Looks like Clutter” by Leonardo Drew.

Leonardo Drew was born in Tallahassee, FL in 1961 and now lives in both Texas
 and New York. The pieces of wood and scrap metal he used on this piece of art

were from a burned down structure near his studio. There are pieces of wood that

stick out more than 12 inches from the frame or base giving this artwork a 3D

effect when standing in front of it. Some pieces are even darker in color showing

a sign of the burned wood. As I carefully viewed this artwork, I must say it really

caught my interest.

DATA GATHERING

Located in Bonifacio Global City Taguig, The Mind Museum is an award-

winning science museum in the Philippines. The museum aims to provide an

extraordinary educational experience for all its visitors through its interactive

exhibits across five main galleries, planetarium shows, 3D films, live science

demos, special exhibitions and monthly events.

Over half a million people have come away inspired after visiting The Mind

Museum since its launch in 2012. Many of them are Filipino families and

students, both from private and public schools, all of which have witnessed
science and nature roaming, talking, exploding, and flying, be it thru the exhibits,

or the museum’s educational programs. The Mind Museum, a non-profit

organization of the Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc., takes pride in being a museum

designed by Filipinos for Filipinos, as it reaches out to the world to contribute to

the public understanding of science.

Conclusion and recommendation

The Mind Museum is grateful for the support of many prominent local and

international corporations. Their generosity not only helped build this world-class

home for science in the country, but also allows us to personally connect science

to the community through various educational programs and initiatives.