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EcoTarium in Worcester is undergoing its first major expansion since 2000

Thousands will celebrate the solar eclipse at a specialist viewing area at the Worcester EcoTarium


Thousands will celebrate the solar eclipse at a specialist viewing area at the Worcester EcoTarium

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WORCESTER – A popular educational attraction in central Massachusetts is expanding. The EcoTarium in Worcester this week announced the first major addition to its science and nature museum since 2000, when it added classrooms.

The highlight of the renovation is a new 8,300-square-foot traveling exhibition gallery and a rooftop solar panel that allows the EcoTarium to host traveling exhibitions. The 10-month construction project, which starts later this month, will be completed in time for the museum’s bicentennial in fall 2025.

“The new exhibition gallery at the EcoTarium will enable the museum to offer immersive, large-scale, world-class exhibitions to communities in Worcester and Central New England for the first time in our 200-year history,” CEO Noreen Johnson Smith said in a statement .

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The new traveling exhibition space in the EcoTarium.

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New learning center for children at EcoTarium

Following the opening of the new exhibition gallery, the EcoTarium also has plans to build a new Early Childhood Science Learning Center to be completed in 2027. That space “will include interactive exhibit components for young children ages 0 to 6 to experience and learn preschool science concepts through play,” the EcoTarium says.

Thousands of people earlier this year came to the EcoTarium for a specialized view of the solar eclipse. The museum mounted telescopes around the sundial so people could look at the sun safely.

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The sundial is depicted on expansion plans for the EcoTarium.

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The EcoTarium says its roots date back to 1825, when fourteen men founded the Worcester Lyceum of Natural History “to promote the appreciation and understanding of the natural world.” The museum opened in its current location in 1971 as the “Worcester Science Center”, before changing its name to EcoTarium in 1998.

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