Insights Science Museum prepares for return with pop-up exhibit

The Insights Science Museum is on track to reopen early next year in a new home. It will be located in what used to be Alamo Elementary School in south El Paso.

Exhibits are taking shape inside the school and there is plenty of work to be done until the opening.

‘Insights’ was knocked down last year to make room for the El Paso Chihuahuas ballpark in downtown El Paso.

Eight months later the El Paso ISD Board of Managers approved moving the museum to the vacant elementary school.

“Since we were torn down people think that we don’t exist anymore,” said Manuel Colorado, board member of the museum.

He said it has been a long road to finally get the museum up and running again.

A prehistoric pop-up gallery filled with dinosaur fossils is set to open Saturday and Basset Place.

“We can offer a glimpse of what’s to come,” said Colorado.

The pop-up gallery is called “Prehistoric Park” and offers a timeline of the life of a dinosaur from the beginning to extinction.

The fossils were gathered from 60 major museum collections worldwide.

Colorado said his goal is to bring back the excitement of science with a new brand.

“We are not a children’s museum and we need to get away from that perception. We’re a science center geared in the STEM field,” he said.

“We like to call it ‘STEAM’, we add that ‘A’ for the arts, as well.”

The pop-up gallery runs from November 8 through January at Bassett Place, admission $5.

For more information, call 534-0000.

The museum is set to open in January, but a date has not been set.