by Terry Burton, Digital Media Coordinator
If you’re keeping up with our blog, you now know that we’ve selected the design/build team which will create the physical home for our new museum. We’ve been working for over a year with our exhibit design firm, Gyroscope, to create the experiences that will reside inside that building. A tremendous amount of work has already gone into the process of creating a brand-new museum from the ground up, and we’ve still got a lot of challenging and exciting work ahead of us.
But creating a new museum isn’t about us — it’s about you. You may live in Fort Collins or the surrounding area and plan to visit us often; you may be an out-of-town guest who will come see us infrequently; or you may be someone who visits our website or blog but never steps foot inside the new building. Regardless, this museum is for you.
So we want to ask you to help us do some of the work to make this new museum a reality. Specifically, we’d like your thoughts on what we should call ourselves.
Let me back up for a moment and give you a refresher: the Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center, as we are known now, came from the partnership of two leading Fort Collins institutions: Discovery Science Center, and the Fort Collins Museum. We entered into a public/private partnership to build a new museum, one that would combine hands-on science and the culture and history of our region.
Here are a couple of other tidbits to help you think of the perfect name for our new museum: our mission is to “create meaningful opportunities for people of all ages to learn, reflect and have fun through hands-on and collections based explorations in science and culture.” Our vision is “to inspire inquisitive thinkers and encourage responsible stewardship of the past, present, and future.”
Most of all, we want our new Museum to be a place where people not only come away with understanding, but are inspired to action.
That’s who we want to be. Now, can you help us figure out what to call ourselves? Just leave a comment to this post with your ideas, and read other people’s ideas too. And stay tuned — developments with the new Museum are really going to take off in 2010. It’s going to be a great journey.
You could call it, “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” where yesterday meets tomorrow today!
think museum
things dominion
fort collins discovery academy
explorisphere
discover sphere
idea conservatory
Ideation Place: Spurring Thought into Action
OurMuseum: See.Think.Share
The Spectrum at Fort Collins: A forward thinking museum
Fort Collins Discovery Project
The Colorado Museum Project
The Colorado Discovery Project
The Museum Project
The Fort Collins Project
The NorCo Culture Lab
NorCo Exploration Station
The Museum at Fort Collins
The Metropolis:A Center for Science and Culture
The Crossroads Project: Where Science and Culture Meet
The Hemisphere: Our World of Science and Culture
Innovation Place
The Culture Lab at Fort Collins: A Center for New Ideas
Fort Collins Science & Culture Project
Exploration Fort Collins
FC Heritage and Science Exploratorium
Discovery World of Northern Colorado
Since history and science aren’t normally paired together:
Conundrum
Paradox
The Hub
Magnify
Vortex
Fulcrum
Bazinga!
I like it the way it already is. Its going to take a while for people to figure out you’ve moved/merged in the first place. People, as a whole like routine and familiarity. My take on it is with all of these major changes, it may negatively effect business. The only way I see around that pickle is to market yourselves like crazy with fliers, advertisements, and the like, on KUNC and bus stops.
I also think it would be wise, if you do change your name, that when you advertise you mention “new name here” formerly the fort collins museum and discovery science center.
Hope that helps. 😀 Look forward to checking out all your new and progressive features!
okay, okay, I CAN think of a few variations for a new name.
Fort Collins Discovery Museum
Fort Collins Science Museum
Discovery Science Museum of Northern Colorado (or Ft Collins)
Family Science Center of Fort Collins (or NoCo)
Cache la Exploration
Fort Collins Nucleus
The Fort Collins Splot!