Mid-America Science Museum to undergo $7.8M renovation

The Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs, Ark., revealed on Tuesday plans for a $7.8 million renovation of their buildings and exhibits. Arkansas Business reports the money is coming from a 2011 grant given by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and an additional grant from the Oaklawn Foundation.

Wittenberg Delony & Davidson Architects of Little Rock is the architect and Nabholz Construction Services of Little Rock is the general contractor.

Construction will begin this summer. The museum will close by fall 2014 and will reopen on March 1, 2015.

The new exhibits will explore the forces and effects of gravity, an underground cave, various workshops on temperature, mechanics, fluids and electricity. The renovations also will include a dome theater which will seat up to 50 people, and a skywalk which extends into the forest canopy.

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