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£12m Filipino Mind Museum breaks ground
Work has begun on the 1bn Philippines pesos (£12.7m, US$21.2m, 14.2m euro) Mind Museum in Taguig City, Metro Manila.
The museum is the brainchild of Bonifacio Art Foundation, and was designed by Filipino architects Lor Calma & Partners.
It will boast 175 interactive exhibits over 3,560sq m of indoor exhibition space. The two-storey building will feature five galleries: The Story of the Universe; The Story of the Earth; The Story of Life; The Story of the Atom and the Story of Technology.
The museum will also boast a theatre, a lab and two meeting rooms.
The Mind Museum is scheduled to open in mid-2011.