The Mind Museum was a project initiated by the Bonifacio Art Foundation,Inc., a non-stock, non-profit organization, supported by the contributions of property owners in Bonifacio Global City. The foundation was established in 1996 by the Fort Bonifacio Development Corp. In 2006, the BAFI Board of Trustees complemented the existing Bonifacio Global City (BGC) arts program with a science component.
Planning for this uniquely Filipino museum began in January 2007. DDI founder Mark Victor Bautista met with The Mind Museum curator Maribel Garcia and University of the Philippines Dean of Fine Arts Doi Rosete in February of that year to discuss his role in conceptualizing, designing, and fabricating the museum’s many exhibits. MVCB Industrial Design was founded a year later for the express purpose of fulfilling this role.
From 2007 to 2012, Mark Victor Bautista visited over 40 science museums, landmarks, and historical sites around the world to take inspiration and learn how to best realize the vision behind The Mind Museum. The exhibition takes off from a narrative that presents science in over 250 interactive exhibits through five interconnected stories. The exhibition spans nature in scale, from the smallest thing in nature to the largest and everything in between: Atom, Earth, Life, Universe and Technology.
Almost all the exhibits in The Mind Museum are originally designed by Filipino artists and fabricators who worked closely with scientists here and abroad to execute science principles or facts clearly and beautifully. Of these, around 20 were conceptualized, designed, and built solely by MVCB, while dozens more were built based on the designs, or in some cases, mere sketches of exhibit ideas. The Mind Museum‘s soft opening in December 2011 paved the way to its much-anticipated public opening in March 16, 2012.
