The Biomuseo is a new one of a kind museum that recently opened in Panama City. Designed by world renowned architect, Frank Gehry, the building itself is designed to tell the story of how the Isthmus of Panama rose from the sea uniting North and South America.
The focus of the museum is biodiversity – all the vast variety of living organisms and biological systems on Earth. It includes diversity at many levels, from genes within species, to the species that have that make up ecosystems, to the ecosystems that together compose the global biosphere.
The museum displays are impressive and a major theme is the Great Interchange, the movement of species from South America into North America and vice versa, how they have changed through evolution, and how Panama continues to serve as a bridge between the continents today.
We were so privileged to have Dr. George Angehr give us a private tour of the Biomuseo. He is a staff scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the author of the Birds of Panama. He was instrumental in designing many of the exhibits at the museum.We are looking forward to birding with him tomorrow.
On the way out of the museum we caught a glimpse of the beautiful skyline of Panama City.
Looking at the skyline of Panama City from the Biomuseo
The focus of the museum is biodiversity – all the vast variety of living organisms and biological systems on Earth. It includes diversity at many levels, from genes within species, to the species that have that make up ecosystems, to the ecosystems that together compose the global biosphere.
The museum displays are impressive and a major theme is the Great Interchange, the movement of species from South America into North America and vice versa, how they have changed through evolution, and how Panama continues to serve as a bridge between the continents today.
We were so privileged to have Dr. George Angehr give us a private tour of the Biomuseo. He is a staff scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the author of the Birds of Panama. He was instrumental in designing many of the exhibits at the museum.We are looking forward to birding with him tomorrow.
On the way out of the museum we caught a glimpse of the beautiful skyline of Panama City.
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