McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity Challenge When the University of Florida received a private donation to construct a 35,000-square-foot educational museum and research complex, the State of Florida committed to ?nancially participate in the construction of a new state- of-the-art facility that would later be named the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. Objective During the construction of the new McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, the facility needed collection space to house the Florida Museum Lepidoptera collections formerly stored at the Allyn Museum in Sarasota, other University of Florida collections and the State of Florida's Division of Plant Industry collections. As the facility was being constructed, the principal goal was to accommodate in

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