3/28/19 – 10:29 A.M.

The University of Findlay’s Mazza Museum is getting a new addition. The school will start construction on the 4,000-square-foot Joseph and Judith Conda STEAM Education Center next spring. They’ll unveil renderings of the expansion during a ceremony next Wednesday at 3 p.m.

UF will announce the amount of Joseph and Judith Conda’s donation next week as well. A partnership with Findlay City Schools helped earn a $350,000 grant for construction from the state through the Ohio Facilities Construction Committee’s cultural grant program.

The University says the center will be one of the first in the nation to blend a campus art museum with the hard sciences. Area school children will use the facility for hands-on learning experiences for art and science projects.