The BioMuseo--Panama's Latest Extravaganza

One fantastic building that looks like many--

Tropical rooftops? Containers on ships coming through the Canal? Origami?  Haphazardly gorgeous.

Frank Gehry (who has a Panamanian wife) designed it.  It's taken 10 years to build so far and is yet to be finished.

Great view from the front steps across the water to Panama City's burgeoning skyline.

Inside, before watching a riveting video about Panama's natural resources, we picked out the various creatures that live in Panama now--especially happy to see Rachel's tracops bat at the top, above the monkey Gwen is pointing at.  And there's the dragon-like Harpy Eagle to the left.

 

The Bridge of Life:  an exhibit of enormous 

and tiny and in-between creatures that have lived in and crossed the Panamanian Isthmus over the eons. 

All touchable.

This was my favorite part of the museum.

But then there was this small room which showed Gehry's original squiggly design. 

A museum came from this?  I'll never throw away a doodle again!

 

And Gwen's interpretation of Gehry's masterpiece.

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And Toby and me, me especially, quite in awe.