Patricia And Phillip Frost Museum Of Science history

As the 21st century approached, the museum had grown, but Miami was growing faster, tripling in size since our beginnings in 1950.

The museum also developed an award-winning science summer camp program, founded in 1965, which has immersed children and teens in the marvels of marine biology and current technology, and in turn created landscapes for personal growth, and pathways to university study.

In 1991, the museum added the Batchelor Wildlife Center, where a highly trained staff of veterinarians and biologists rehabilitate injured birds of prey such as falcons and owls, caring for more than 400 injured birds each year, and releasing many back into the wild.

Longtime supporters of South Florida’s arts and culture, Doctor Phillip and Patricia Frost committed $35 million dollars in 2011 to name the museum at its new home, becoming the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science.

In February of 2012, Frost Science broke ground on its 250,000-square-foot facility in downtown Miami and a few years later the Frosts made an additional $10 million gift to support the new museum’s state-of-the-art planetarium, now the Frost Planetarium.

In August of 2015 the Coconut Grove location closed to the public but continued as a base for administrative offices, and as home to the Falcon Batchelor Bird of Prey Center, and many of our educational programs.

Our new location, which encompasses four buildings, including a planetarium and a vast aquarium system, as well as leading-edge technology for sustainability and LEED-certification, opened in May 2017 to critical acclaim.