  A project to construct a 17 m diameter imaging air Cherenkov telescope,
called the MAGIC Telescope, is described. The aim of the project is to close
the observation gap in the gamma-ray sky extending from 10 GeV as the highest
energy measurable by space-borne experiments to 300 GeV, the lowest energy
measurable by the current generation of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes. The
MAGIC Telescope will incorporate several new features in order to reach the
very low energy threshold. At the same time the new technology will yield an
improvement in sensitivity in the energy region where current Cherenkov
telescopes are measuring by about an order of magnitude.
