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Celebrating the Agricultural & Life Sciences:

The Museum of Living Sciences

at The University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Barn is now a recognized as a historic site! The same groups who brought this recognition about offer suggestions for alternative uses of the barn.
Follow this link to see an addendum to this site, including pictures of the barn circa 1900, original blueprints, and sketches of the barn!
Vision Build the premier place for putting Life into Life Sciences Museums and Hands-on Science Centers worldwide. (Click any image to see full version)
We envision an impact on the life sciences comparable to the impact on the physical sciences of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Problem The Dairy Barn is historic but it needs care. As an animal care facility, it is increasingly obsolete. How can we see it as an inspiring opportunity? CALS and the University need to show our successes, cultivate new scientists, and recruit top undergraduate talent.
Solution Build The Dairy Barn as The Museum of Living Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
  • A Living Sciences Experimentorium.
  • A place for generating science savvy in the next generation of scientists.
  • A space for celebrating the genius and ingenuity of Wisconsin researchers and inventors in agriculture, life sciences and health.
  • An engine of invention for new ways for learning the arts of science.
Purpose of The Barn
Original		 To Generate New Knowledge.
Purpose of The Museum
New:		 To Generate New Knowledge.
Function of The Barn
Original:		 To House Cows.
Function of The Museum
New:		 To Generate Hows? and Wows! To create a space where people learn science the way they learn language: In a Community of Example, Exploration, and Experimentation
Scope The Spectrum of Life, the Breadth of the Life Sciences. Food, Land and Health are the stuff of life. A Project Led by CALS.
Scale The Barn is 25,000 square feet of opportunity. With Web resources, the impact will be immediate, interactive, infectious-- and global.