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Museum of Science and Industry:
Children's Science Center
Tampa, FL
$5,624,000
Batson-Cook constructed this 25,000-
square-foot science facility and park adjacent
to the Museum of Science & Industry. In
addition to exhibit space, it includes office
areas, two party rooms, a future planetarium
and a future flight simulator.
The building is structural steel with stucco
exterior walls, significant use of curtain wall
systems on two sides and a standing seam
metal roof supported on exposed steel joists.
When this museum opened, the 41,306
square foot complex was the largest children’s
science center in the country. It houses
exhibits and learning centers covering three
main themes: Activate, Investigate and
Create. Kids in Charge! emphasizes how
science is connected to most everything in
daily life and that skills for “doing science”
are the same for living and working in any
discipline.
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