The space will be utilized as a typical visitor center with gallery, resource area, educational activities, meeting room, gift shop and archival storage for the preservation of R. Buckminster Fuller documents and artifacts.

R. Buckminster Fuller, creator of the buckyball, was a professor at SIU in Carbondale in the 1960’s. At that time, he built and lived in a large buckyball home, which has been restored and will soon be a museum to the man and his legacy.