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The Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware, has announced the launch of the Museum Metamorphosis capital campaign – a fundraising scheme aiming to ... More

Plans for a US$130m (€113.3m, £99.4m) aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, US have received a boost following news that the Sarasota County Commission has unanimously approved ... More

South Carolina’s Roper Mountain Science Center is to launch a fundraising campaign as it seeks to secure US$14m (€12.26m, £11.05m) to construct a new environmental ... More

Chiva-Som International Health Resort in Hua Hin, Thailand, is closed for six months while it has been undergoing the third of four phases of an ... More

Unesco has reached an agreement with science museums in China to promote the exchange and sharing of science resources between them and other institutions across ... More

A fundraising campaign has been launched following the announcement of plans to build a US$130m (€106m, £93.2m aquarium development in Sarasota, Florida. Called the Mote ... More

In a year of ups, downs, loops and scoops, Attractions Management looks back at some of the biggest stories to hit the headlines, giving possible ... More

Throughout 2017, we have been lucky enough to speak to a host of the most innovative, influential and opinionated leisure architects and designers working across ... More

Plans have been unveiled in China to build the world’s highest planetarium – set to open at the Tibet Museum of Natural Sciences in 2019. ... More

One of Canada’s largest science centres has signed a deal with Chinese company Grandview Enterprise to establish a major new science centre in the city ... More

The Buffalo State College in New York State, US, is about to enter the third phase of a US$35.5m expansion to its Science and Mathematics ... More

New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is hosting more than 30 local students for a summer of training, with the interns at the ... More

Manuel Heitor, Portugal's Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, has called on the science centre community not to waver from their missions to educate, ... More

More than 1,000 members of the science centre and science museums community will be arriving in Porto, Portugal, this week to attend the Ecsite Annual ... More

The architect behind the American Museum of Natural History's hotly-anticipated new wing has made a passionate plea for investment in science education, saying: "You've got ... More

Mobile AR, New Media Education and the “Matthew Effect” have all been highlighted as potential trends affecting scientific institutions across the world, according to the ... More

Philanthropist and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has donated US$50m (€45.4m, £40.6m) to Boston’s Museum of Science – the single largest gift in ... More

NASA has gifted The Science Museum of Minnesota US$14.5m (€12.6m, £10m) to head a national project aimed at sparking interest in earth, space and science. ... More

Colorado-based architectural firm Fentress have revealed final plans for the US$150m (€138m, £99m) renovation and expansion of Cleveland’s Museum of Natural History after gaining approval ... More

Boise Aquarium in Idaho has taken armchair viewing to a whole new level, using new technology to allow anyone with an internet connection to operate ... More

LINE, a Japanese-designed app for instant messaging on smartphones and PCs, has opened its first 'theme park'. Situated in the galleries of the National Taiwan ... More

The chairman of the Royal Institution (Ri) says an anonymous donation of £4.4m is enough to clear the organisation’s debt but that its financial troubles ... More

A new scheme to engage disadvantaged youth with science and technology has been launched by international pop star will.i.am, in collaboration with The Prince’s Trust, ... More

The Natural Science Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, US, has announced it will open its SciQuarium in early summer this year, the first phase in ... More

Cleveland Museum of Natural History in University Circle, Ohio is set for a US$125m transformation. The project, which was previously halted during the 2008 expansion, ... More