Biomuseo
Frank Gehry's brightly roofed museum on the Amador Causeway, telling the story of Panama's biodiversity.
The Biomuseo occupies the Amador Causeway at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, on land built up from canal excavation spoil. It is the only building in Latin America designed by Frank Gehry, who married a Panamanian and had long-standing ties to the country. Overlapping canopies in red, yellow and blue rise above an open concrete frame, and the design deliberately leaves parts of the structure outdoors so that sea breezes pass through the galleries.
The museum opened to the public in 2014 and interprets a single scientific theme: how the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama three million years ago reshaped the oceans and allowed species to cross between the Americas. Eight galleries include the three-storey Panamarama projection, The Bridge Arises, The Great Exchange and Divided Oceans, with aquaria representing the Pacific and Caribbean. A biodiversity park and viewpoints over the canal entrance surround the building.
Highlights
- Panama's only Frank Gehry building, with brightly coloured folded roof canopies
- Panamarama: a three-storey immersive projection of Panamanian ecosystems
- Divided Oceans aquaria contrasting Pacific and Caribbean marine life
- Views across the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal
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