Gift from the philinthropic community and beyond. Visitors of all ages, dan, all ages, and backgrounds will come here by the millions to nurture their curiosity. Science teachers in the bay area and around the country will call it their professional home, artists will continue to collaborate with scientists here. And Science Education institutions around the world will benefit from the research and the innovation that will occur here. This has been a true journey, long, and rewarding. A culmination of years and planning and hard work, not just by the exporatorium staff and board, about whom i cant say enough. [ applause ] but also by the city and the state including many of you here today. The exporatorium is really all about collaboration. Collaborativive learning, collaborative decisionmaking and collaborative management. And this process has been a true collaboration, bringing together the staff and the board, government agencies, neighborhood associations, our fellow San Francisco
Celebrating the next 150 years, with all of you. And i would like to especially thank the exporatoriums board, staff, consultants, and supporters and friends. For with you all who were the innovators behind this vision, you all who had this dedication for too many years to count and you all who will make this all possible and so my ring, which i like to point out is going on top of davids ring. And that was a silly thing to say, david. Only when you go last. My ring, back to the point, mr. Mayor, thank god that i work for you. My ring symbolizes the conductors and the communicaters and it is representative of the planners, the collaborative ra tores and the producers who created this vision and those of you who will keep it fresh for the next 150 years, please take a big bow all of you here today and it is truly an achievement, thank you. [ applause ] thank you, monique very much. My team before you here is almost finished, we are going to ring the bell in just a few moments, let me ju
[ applause ] my name is sam ashley, anchor at abc 7 news and i am delighted to be with you, i had a very difficult trip over i had to pass the embaracaro and so i worked the late news and about the only thing that would get me up this early is a round of golf, i am proud to serve as your mc and we have a wonderful ceremony, in my line of work any time that i can be in front of a large group of people that cant change the channel, i will get up early for that. You know, kind of a unique role here, part news man and part neighbor, we are right across the street. And super fan of the work that everyone involved in this great project has done and the end result. How many of you have had a chance to see the inside of this facility . It is beyond words, really. And as of this morning, the public now has a chance to see what all of you have been up to these past many, many months to see this come to fruition is truly a programmable and satisfying and it is really a new crown jewel for the cit
They say that victory and successes have many parents and i want to take a moment to add my thanks not just to the dreamers and the architects and the engineers and the builders, the donors and the exporatorium staff but i want to thank my neighborhood associations, the environmental groups and the transit organizations that worked together for many months for my aid and myself to make sure that we negotiated with city staff and i think Six Commission ss what i understand to balance all of the needs that we need to move this through unanimously. And i also want to say when i came at office five years ago, the piers that we are on today and many of the piers along the bay were crumbling into the sea and the fact that we opened up today and opened up and did a Ribbon Cutting on the cruise ship terminal and we will be opening up the americas cup we are truly building a 21st gem of a water front that is the envy to every city in the world. [ applause ] let me tell you, part of the reason i
Was a true labor of love for the board. Two factors made our job actually quite easy. First, everyone in the bay area loves the exporatorium. [ applause ] and second, it is an institution that in its first 43 year has made a big impact in the world. What you see here is the end result of a lot of work by thousands of people. We see this space not just as a new campus, but as a transformative platform from which to multiply our impact, those within the museum and also beyond its walls. It is a great honor for me to represent the entire board along with two chairman ameriti who are both here today, dan casper and bill bos. Both of who played. [ applause ] both of whom played critical roles in making this happen. Over a decade, im thrilled to be placing this first ring on our beautiful new bell, this ring represents visionaries and designers, the dreamers, architects and imaginers, of the exporatorium, thank you very much. George, thank you very much. Please welcome now, dr. Dennis bartel