Integrated into the museum will be a café and retail store that will operate separately and be open to park-goers during non-museum hours, activating the area for extended hours. Johns River Park, the iconic Friendship Fountain, and the city’s funky, spiral pump house (which Hane hopes will become a separate rooftop event space). The building’s river-facing facade will be entirely of glass, looking out over its campus toward St. “As a fixture on the Southbank of Downtown, MOSH is in a perfect position to transform our riverfront with an iconic campus where science, culture and innovation come together,” says Hane. MOSH president Maria Hane says the plan is to create a seamless indoor/outdoor experience between the museum and its environs. Johns River, making it a riverfront beacon on the Southbank. Morgan’s “castle” will be renovated and expanded from its 77,000 square feet to 120,000 square feet, and reoriented toward the St. The expansion will nearly double the number of visitors the museum can serve annually, a clear boon for the local economy, and position it as an institution for lifelong learning as part of the Downtown redevelopment. MOSH 2.0, as stated by the museum, is designed to meet the growing demand for exhibits and programs that inspire innovation, both for museum visitors and across the community.
The MOSH 10-Year Master Plan was completed in 2016, and in January of this year, the museum officially launched the first fund-raising efforts for MOSH 2.0: Expanding the Capacity to Inspire Innovation. MOSH was feeling its impending maximum capacity back in 2013, so it embarked on the first of four independent, community-based studies, guided by input from over two-hundred and fifty stakeholders, to help envision its next phase. Between 20, MOSH served 700,000 people, routinely selling out its special programs for young adults, the very young and home-schooled children in particular.
It has also, however, outgrown its space. Morgan described his modern, brutalist design as a “castle for children,” and MOSH has indeed served our city and its children with innovative, award-winning exhibitions and programming for decades. When the Jacksonville Museum of Arts and Sciences (originally the Jacksonville Children’s Museum) became the Museum of Science and History (MOSH) in 1969, it moved into its current building, designed by North Florida architectural icon William Morgan. MOSH 2.0 launches a major, five-year museum expansion
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