With less than a year remaining before the Museum’s new facility opens its doors, the construction site is a beehive of activity! In December, crews worked to install one of the most dramatic architectural features of the facility: the glass panels of the 77-foot-tall Urban Lantern, the main entrance to the Museum. Here’s what else you can expect to see in the next few months:

• In January, construction crews will undertake one of the Museum’s most dramatic installations as a crane hoists a pre-assembled 25-ton Noble Planetarium dome into place on the south end of the facility.
• Construction crews will spend most of January and February working to complete the west façade of the facility – visible to pedestrians and motorists on Montgomery Street. That work will likely be completed by the end of February, marking a milestone: the first finished façade of the main Museum structure.
• Work on the exterior brick, stone and tile will continue through the spring and summer. 
• The interior of the Museum is also rapidly taking shape as crews frame and partition the facility from the Museum School on the north end and continue south. 

Remember, you can see what’s happening on the webcam now!

Time-lapse photography
If you don’t want to tune in to the webcam each day, the Museum is also utilizing time-lapse photography to document the two-year construction process. A second camera, positioned to the east on the Will Rogers Memorial Center’s Swine Barn, has been capturing a steady stream of photos of the construction since September 2007. View the latest time-lapse clip.