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LIFESTYLE
Courtesy photos - The DoSeum
The DoSeum
San Antonio’s new children’s museum hopes to spark a love of learning
Special to San Antonio Medicine
Young minds have a new place to grow in Kids will be able to use their inner creativ- year to be used for on-site irrigation, and it
San Antonio – The DoSeum. ity and curiosity to feed their appetite for will strive to recycle 90 percent of waste ma-
learning as they choose from an impressive terials gathered from daily operations. The
San Antonio’s museum for kids, which menu of world-class exhibits that include an DoSeum is set to receive LEED (Leadership
opened in early June, offers limitless oppor- interactive robot named Baxter, a spy acad- in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold
tunities for children to discover, explore, cre- emy filled with math challenges, an interac- certification from the U.S. Green Building
ate and learn. With world-class exhibits and tive puppet parade, a musical staircase, a Council and is among the most sustainable
sustainable, thoughtful architecture, it is children’s river, and a significant outdoor ex- museums in Texas.
poised to be one of the leading children’s mu- hibit area with plenty of water features, shade
seums in the nation. At the DoSeum, nearly and an ADA-accessible treehouse. “From the day we open our doors, the Do-
60 percent of the exhibits focus on concepts Seum will be one of the most beautiful, ex-
in science, technology, engineering and math ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE citing and interactive children’s museums in
(STEM), while others emphasize literacy and The museum will educate by using every the entire United States,” said Vanessa Lacoss
the creative arts to create a diverse learning Hurd, chief executive director the DoSeum.
experience. inch of the 104,000 square feet of indoor- “It will be a place where children tap their
outdoor exhibit space. The building’s sus- inner creativity and curiosity, and where sci-
Education is critical to the success of any tainable architecture serves as a teaching aid ence, math, technology and art become a
city, and the goal of the DoSeum is to spark in environmental science. The eco-friendly playground for their minds and bodies. Our
a love of learning in children that will stay building is equipped to produce up to 25 hope is that the DoSeum will spark a gen-
with them as they grow. In every nook of the percent of the facility’s energy by way of 616 uine zeal for learning that they will take with
fascinating space, children will find some- solar panels, to capture approximately them through childhood and beyond.”
thing to explore, to play with, to puzzle over 180,000 gallons of HVAC condensate per
and to create. When planning the design of the building,
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