Phase 2 Renovation of Cleveland Museum of Natural History

under planning

Phase 2 entails renovating Murch Auditorium, including improved acoustics, lighting and audio/visual equipment with broadcast capacity, and increasing to 495 from 445 seats; renovating the current science area; rebuilding the courtyard to include a paved area with a relief map of the Cuyahoga River watershed and a one-story-high waterfall; enclosing a 50,000-sq-ft new exhibit wing to occupy former side of the museum’s Perkins Wildlife Center; and adding a new main lobby, café and store that will wrap and enclose the museums existing brick facade.