![]() View of the BADM campus at historic Fort Baker in Sausalito. Outside, the new Gumnut Grove, a creative play space for children aged five-through-ten is anchored by a trio of treehouses/play structures, and a new interactive boat exhibit at Lookout Cove, an adventuresome 2.5-acre play and discovery area, provides sweeping views of the Golden Gate Bridge. ![]() The new exhibits and activity spaces at BADM include: A newly reimagined maker space, the Fab Lab, outfitted with digital fabrication tools How Things Work, a new exhibition with considerable adult appeal that “teaches children systems thinking by cutting in half and removing the outer shell of household items” per the firm new forest- and bay-themed exhibits in the Tot Spot, the museum’s toddler-dedicated exhibition area, and a new dedicated STEM classroom. This toned-down approach, which the firm notes also has appeal to adults who might be otherwise discouraged from actively engaging with their children due to the overwhelming, candy-colored aesthetics that often permeate such spaces, invites young visitors to use their own imaginations to further bring the museum’s spaces to life.Īs detailed by the firm, workshops held during the design and development phases specifically sought insight and ideas from the museum’s core target users, an approach that further advances “Maskin’s agenda of trusting children as the experts of their own experiences.” Exploring the revamped Tot Spot (Courtesy Matthew Millman) In conceiving the new exhibits and activity areas, the project design team, joined by BADM’s own research division, eschewed the glaring colors often associated with museum spaces designed specifically for kids. “The museum builds on this idea by creating an environment where access to that vital learning is explicitly equitable and every visitor has the opportunity to integrate that type of thinking into their life-the potential for where that can lead these children is limitless.” The new How Things Work exhibit (Courtesy Matthew Millman) “We know that children are not exposed to design and engineering at an early enough age, so BADM’s mission to introduce STEM concepts through play and creative experiences is exciting,” Maskin added. In a press statement, Maskin, who also helmed the design of the newly opened ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin (which also employed considerable timber components), said that the renovation project “presented an incredible opportunity to align updated facility and exhibit design with the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s visionary educational theory and practices.” ![]() San Francisco-based landscape architecture and urban design firm Surfacedesign, Inc., and museum exhibit design and fabrication practice Pacific Studio, also based in Seattle, were also tapped to round out the larger project team. (Courtesy Matthew Millman)Īlan Maskin, design principal with the Seattle-based Olson Kundig, led the project along with principal and project manager Marlene Chen. (BADM shuttered entirely during the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic, reopening in August 2020.) A new activity space at BADM was completed as part of the $18.5 million makeover. The revamp of the 7.5-acre BADM campus was completed in incremental phases, allowing the museum to remain open to pint-sized visitors and their adult chaperones while renovation work was underway. First announced in early 2019, the transformative $18.5 million overhaul expanded the footprint of the multi-building BADM within its historic location, while yielding five new research-backed permanent exhibits and activity areas, as well as improved amenities as part of the museum’s BOLD: Spark Curiosity, Inspire Innovation capital campaign.
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