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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum — Current and Proposed Projects
Revised/updated August 26, 2009
Exhibit Projects Underway - 2009
- Bear exhibit renovation (need plan & funding) — completed Fall 2009
- Javelina night holding footers and service pad — completed 2010
- Earth-Sciences upgrades — in progress
- Dry Cave - Pleistocene Sloth exhibit upgrades
Earth History Room — install horseshoe crab, flatworm and frogamander models
- Tortoise Exhibit — in progress
- Install interactive components (concrete and fiberglass tortoise models)
Install Pleistocene tortoise w/camel print
- Electrical upgrade of reptile exhibits — in progress
- Electrical upgrade of Cat Canyon static exhibits — to be complete in FY09
Projects Planned for 2009-2010
- Otter exhibit upgrade — Begin FY10
- Animal retirement facility — ongoing
- Aquatic animal holding — FY09
- Montane reptile dioramas — completion — FY10
- Grasslands upgrades — begin FY10
Planned Exhibits
- Desert Loop Trail Dome — awaiting funding
- Aquatics room exhibits refurbishments — fundraising in progress
- Jaguar/puma exhibits — exhibit will proceed when funds are in place
Other Exhibit Options under Consideration
- Move burrowing owls in with prairie-dogs
- Turn current burrowing owl exhibit into roadrunner exhibit
- Revamp small P-dogs to be caracara/turkey vulture exhibit
- Songbird exhibit over Desert Grassland cienega
- Magpie jay near Ironwood complex
- Golden eagle near existing aviary
- Badger exhibit
- Arthropod Hall (cost estimated at ~$2 million) — possible long-term exhibit for DLT dome
Retrieved from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum web site on 04-24-2024
http://www.desertmuseum.org/support/related/projects.php