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Exhibit Frank O. Gehry - The Creative Process

August 01, 2004

Fundación Amador presents at the Museum Administrative Building on the Amador Causeway, next to the future museum site, the exhibit Frank O. Gehry – The Creative Process. The exhibit comprises the designs, blueprints, fotographs and models of the building Panama Bridge of Life, Museum of Biodiversity.

The exhibit will remained opened until the end of December 2004.

Photo by Z.Garcia Ponce

The exhibit was opened on November 30th 2003 in a gala dinner attended by Mr. Gehry himself and the President of Panama, Mrs. Mireya Moscoso. It will remained opened to the public until the end of April 2004.

Furthermore, the exhibit shows the designs and models of the celebrated Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau, who is in charged of translating to a visual and tactile language the scientific script of the Museum. For more details go to The Exhibits on this website.

Through its colorful and detailed models this exhibit allows the visitor to take and intimate peak at the inner contents of Panama Bridge of Life. From simple sketches on a piece of paper we see how a magnificent building is developed. From the fact that Panama surged from the oceans three million years ago, we see a coherent and sequential scientific tale be told through visual metaphors, which emphasizes our main natural richness and resource: our biodiversity.

Finally, the exhibit will allow the visitor to appreciate that the Museum will be surrounded by more that 20 thousand square meters of tropical botanic gardens of plant varieties indigenous to Panama.

The exhibit is opened Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The donation for entrance to the exhibit is $2.00 for adults in general, $1.00 for students and retired persons. The entrace is free for children under 12.

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