Biomuseo, Natural history museum in Ancón, Panama.
The Biomuseo is a natural history museum in Ancón in Panama City in Panama. It houses eight exhibition galleries displaying the country's ecosystems through scientific specimens, screens, and interactive installations.
American architect Frank Gehry designed the building with its colored metal roofs. It opened in 2014 as a place to explain the role of the country as a biological corridor between two continents.
The name of the building points to the emergence of the country as a land bridge that connected two continents and changed the animal and plant life of the planet. Visitors learn how this narrow connection allowed species from north and south to exchange and created new habitats.
The museum sits near the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal and can be visited Tuesday to Friday from ten in the morning to four in the afternoon and on weekends from ten to five. Displays are labeled in Spanish and English, and a full visit takes around two hours.
Eight differently shaped metal roofs cover the building, each painted in a different color to symbolize the variety of landscapes in the country. The architecture itself becomes part of the exhibit, connecting form with content in a visible way.
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