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Print Edition StoriesThe Massachusetts Life Sciences Center gave a $5 million grant to the Museum of Science Boston on Wednesday to build an exhibit on biology and biotechnology to be called the Hall of Human Life (HHL).
The exhibit, expected to open next summer, will include 10,000 square feet of space relying on life sciences research connections through businesses and universities in the area. The HHL itself is planned to include an interactive segment in which visitors can anonymously record their experiences in areas of food, physical forces, living organisms, social experience and time. It will also have a Living Laboratory with human biology experiments on progress by scientists. A Provacative Questions area will address public policy concerns, and an Exploration Hub will serve as a Q&A and experiment focus area.
The Museum of Science said it will be the largest permanent exhibit it’s had since the 1990s. To date, the museum more than doubled the Mass Life Sciences Center's matching grant by raising $11 million to fund the new exhibit.
The Mass Life Sciences Center is the Waltham-based state agency responsible for overseeing and disbursing funds associated with the $1 billion Life Sciences Act passed into law in 2008.
Earlier this week, the center awarded a $5 million grant to the Joslin Diabetes Center, which said it plans to match the grant, bringing in a total of $10.8 million to build the Translational Center for the Cure of Diabetes in Boston’s Longwood Medical area.
Editor's note: A previous version of this article incorrectly noted the total amount funded for the exhibit to date. Currently, the museum has raised $11 million for the exhibit, in addition to the $5 million MLSC grant.
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