The structural work will last until 2025. © Thomas Telley
Work on the new Natural History Museum in Friborg is progressing as planned. One year after the approval – by 72.2% of voters – of the commitment credit, this is what emerges mainly from the point made in a press release by the State of Fribourg.
The project by the Friborg office Zamparo Architectes is currently at the structural work stage. Started last October, this stage should be completed in 2025. As a reminder, the challenge is to build a contemporary museum without distorting the historic building of the former Arsenal dating from 1905. Concerning the development, the project provides for a foyer with a café and a shop at the entrance to the museum. The ground floor will house a multipurpose room and a cultural mediation workshop, while the two upper floors will house the permanent and temporary exhibitions.
In four months, the workers completed a first phase of clearing and dismantling, then, using digging machines, carried out excavations for the future underground car park and the pipes. This operation made it possible to concrete certain basement structures.
But what about right now? “Currently, several teams are working on reinforcing the existing beams of the building, in order to then be able to create the interior connection between the future museum and the underground car park,” specifies the State of Friborg, which wants to be reassuring: the museum should open as expected in 2028.
