Hitchcock Center for the Environment

The Hitchcock Center for the Environment will create new and enhanced exhibits to strengthen engaging, interactive, and experiential learning opportunities for thousands of visitors and program participants each year. Project staff will work with a professional design firm to develop, design, fabricate, and install the exhibits in the center's new "living" building, focusing on centralized themes that will promote greater understanding of sustainable technologies, architectural systems, and environmental sustainability. The new exhibits will be a key element in the Hitchcock center's plan to significantly increase program participation and to offer participants a deeper, more positive relationship with nature. Prototyping and evaluation will measure how the new exhibits create a better understanding of the ecological principles and concepts that support all life, provide a greater sense of place and connection to the natural world, and improve knowledge of environmental issues and ability to think critically about them.