{"id":133643,"date":"2026-01-27T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/133643\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:09:31","slug":"mosi-unveils-new-name-and-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/133643\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSI unveils new name and expansion plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa\u2019s<\/a> Museum of Science &amp; Industry (MOSI) has a new name and is expanding its STEAM learning spaces &#8211; encompassing science, technology, engineering, art, and math.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The new name and details of the expansion will be revealed during a press conference on Tuesday morning at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">MOSI is expected to use chemical reactions to transform a sign bearing its former name, the Museum of Science &amp; Industry, into its new name.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The museum is also expected to share its expanded Center for STEAM Learning, which adds 30,000 square feet of new classroom lab space.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">MOSI officials said the new space will allow it to quadruple the number of school field trip students and school break campers each year.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">This isn\u2019t the first time MOSI has changed its name.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">It began as the Museum of Science and Natural History in 1962.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">In 1982, it became the Museum of Science &amp; Industry in 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information found in a press release from MOSI.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Tampa\u2019s Museum of Science &amp; Industry (MOSI) has a new name and is expanding its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-133643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-hillsborough","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}