Museum of Living Art - Facility

Zoo Building for the Future   — (Download Article)

• $19 million facility
  
• 30,000 square feet indoors and outdoors
  

• About 100 individual exhibits, housing about 5000 reptiles, amphibians and more
  
• Exterior includes several exhibits that will house most of the facility's non-reptile species, including sloths, golden lion tamarins, macaws and more
  
• Larger animal exhibits and breeding areas throughout the facility will allow keepers to accurately replicate natural habitats, benefiting the entire collection
  
• The layout will allow safe transfer of venomous animals using behind-the-scenes areas
  

• MOLA will significantly expand the Zoo's current formal educational programming options
  
• Offers students direct experience with nature to revitalize a passion for the sciences — natural, life, physical and earth
  
• An interpretive center allows teachers, students and all visitors to ask keepers questions, and see hatchlings and babies up-close, providing an educational resource for the community, state and nation
  

The world's current Global Amphibian Crisis threatens the existence of 32% of all amphibians!

• Exhibits highlight man's successes in wildlife conservation as a catalyst to rally around current wildlife challenges
  
• Four state-of-the-art quarantine rooms that comfortably accommodate multiple animals will prohibit inter-species pathogen transfers among animals for release into the wild
  
• Two hibernaculums will allow hibernation that is essential for breeding
  
• Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems will allow keepers to better control moisture, humidity and temperatures — all key to breeding rare reptiles and amphibians
  
• Educational graphics will portray the specific threats surrounding reptiles and amphibians and their natural habitats
  

• Finalize construction plans by August 2007
  
• Broke ground in late September 2007
  
• Open to the public in March 2010.
  

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