The museum’s recent renovations began with the re-opening of a first floor “innovation” exhibit space in 2015.

The school has dedicated storage and exhibit space to the project, as well as the resources to process the collections.

As we descend to the cavernous exhibit space, she pauses for a moment and still, after all these months, shivers.

Planners are considering the use of the land for additional parking, camping, or exhibit space.

It also has nearly twice the amount of exhibit space as the original.