Children's Museums · MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Science + Innovation

Curious by Nature

buzz on in, little pollinators →

Curious by Nature

About this project

A honeycomb pollinator climber scaled for crawlers and toddlers — hexagon cells to crawl through, netted bridges, a padded climbing ramp, and a wildflower ribbon winding the walls, so the museum's youngest visitors feel like the exhibit was built just for them. Because it was.

Curious by Nature — known during development as Crawlers’ Corner — is part of MOXI’s whole-museum refresh, which follows the museum’s Exhibition Master Plan and will replace roughly 20% of its permanent exhibits over the next few years. We designed and built this corner for the museum’s youngest visitors. This phase of the refresh was completed in June 2025.

VerticalChildren's Museums
ClientMOXI, The Wolf Museum of Science + Innovation
ServicesDesign + Fabrication
Location & yearSanta Barbara, CA · 2025

What success looked like

Success was MOXI's youngest visitors getting a pollinator habitat built just for them — the first phase of a whole-museum refresh, open on schedule in June 2025.

“A play space designed to support the development of MOXI’s earliest learners, ages 0–36 months. Inspired by nature and the wonders of the world around us, the exhibits encourage the development of gross motor skills, safe risk taking, problem solving, and early math concepts like counting, shapes, and patterns.”

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