![]() Gendreau disagrees, as the plans were confirmed in the visualisations.įrom January 2008, a new director took over the institute, Dr. Gendreau began construction on the aquarium “without a confirmed project plan,” and before being authorised to do so. ![]() Work was scheduled to begin on the 7th of January 2008, though according to Prof. The plans would be realised with the help of a group of over 40 employees, including students, graduates and scientific and engineering professionals. The building’s 100-person conference room would be modernised with a new sound system and projector, which would be used for presentations for school groups. The plans for the aquarium include brand-new cement aquariums protected by shatter-proof acrylic as well as smaller terrariums protected by two panes of glass, disabled access throughout the entire building, 28 touch screen “info points,” 42-inch HD displays for presentations, and several hands-on exhibitions for children, including a “Discovery Room” where children could touch certain marine animals and crustaceans. All expenditures involved with the investment, organisation, and promotion will be borne by the firm.” In addition to a written offer, a visualisation was attached that showed details of the proposed reconstruction of the building, and was agreed upon by both parties. The offer also stated that Nathan’s Villa Hostels “will undertake the responsibility for the safety of visitors to the exhibition. Gendreau submitted an offer, describing the idea behind the aquarium and its value for education and tourism, as well as details involving the modernising of the building and installing WiFi, air conditioning, disabled access, and a café. The professor gave his initial support to the idea, and arranged a meeting with the director of ISiEZ, who also expressed a positive opinion. Gendreau expressed that “the finished museum and aquarium would be a wonderful addition to the children of Krakow.” In an open letter from the 6th of August, Mr. Nathan Gendreau proposed the idea of building a modern, state of the art aquarium comparable to those in the U.S. The lease of the private company running the oceanarium had ended, and the director of the museum was interested in renting the space, initially hoping to use the funds gained from the rent to open a larger branch of the original museum in another location. Previously, the publicly-owned Museum of Natural History, owned by the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals (Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucje Zwierz?t, ISiEZ) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN), had housed a small, 30,000-litre oceanarium run by a private company in space rented from the institute, in addition to the museum?s permanent exhibitions. ![]() Nathan Gendreau, American owner of the Nathan’s Villa Hostels chain, is the sole investor in the project, which was begun almost exactly a year ago. However, realisation of the currently half-finished project has been repeatedly stalled. ![]() Sebastiana 9 is the site of the Museum of Natural History, and even fewer people know of the grand plans for the transformation of two floors of the building into a state of the art aquarium. ![]()
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