THIS OLD HOUSE Upcoming Infrastructure Improvements at the Museum
A Counter-clockwise from top: The Museum’s front entry was renovated and made ADA accessible as part of the Centennial Project in 2018, Fleischmann Auditorium received extensive updates and restoration in 2019, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology Krista Fahy, Ph.D., shows bird study skins to grants administrators from the California Cultural & Historical Endowment in 2019. CCHE provided critical support for new cabinets in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology.
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nyone who has had the good fortune to visit the Museum is immediately struck by the beauty and historic charm of its collection of galleries, auditoriums, and offices — all of which have grown organically alongside Mission Creek since we opened our doors in April 1923. For those of us who have the high privilege to work and volunteer at the Museum, we know intimately the quirks, aches, and creaks of this old house. While the Master Plan we developed will address improvements for several areas of the Museum, it by no means contemplates the needs of the entire fifteen-acre campus. We are proud to have completed Phase One of the Master Plan with our Centennial Project that took three years (2016–2018) of on-the-ground transformative work.
