Image: The hall forms part of HMNS' expansion plansA new US$85m (EUR68m, £55m) Hall of Palaeontology featuring more than 30 dinosaurs opens to the public at Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) in Texas, US, tomorrow (2 June).
The 30,000sq ft (2,787sq m) facility forms part of a wider expansion – the Dan L Duncan Family Wing – designed by
Gensler and boasts a total of 60 major mounts, which includes prehistoric mammals in "action" poses.
The exhibition area itself was designed entirely by the museum's own exhibits department, led by Judd Swanson.
Exhibits will also include a Tyrannosaurus Rex with the "best preserved and most complete hands and feet of any Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found", as well as touchable specimens.
The expansion of HMNS will also create more than 115,000sq ft (10,684sq m) of additional exhibition and education space.
Following the completion of the expansion project, the museum will have double the amount of public exhibition space for temporary and permanent installations.
Details:
www.hmns.orgImage: Another Believer
