Tagged with "light"
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Looking at the Light
Case Study
by Wendy Pollock Published May 09 2007
Looking at the Light was a traveling exhibition with a big mission: to demonstrate the power of hands-on exhibits and (as we said in the final report) "to facilitate sharing of the Exploratorium's expertise and vision." At the time the project was...
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Seeing the Light
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by Tom Nielsen Published May 05 2007
On a windy March afternoon 21 years ago, I was walking up Madison Avenue in Manhattan, looping in my mind the number 590, the way then-promising, now-obsolete "bubble memory" chips had to be constantly refreshed lest they lose their data. Odd, for...
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Sun Painting
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by Wendy Pollock Published November 06 2007
No one who's seen the Sun Painting could ever forget it. Bob Miller created this luminous exhibit during the Exploratorium's early years. A heliostat on the roof, far overhead, tracks the sun's movement and reflects the sunlight off a mirror down into...
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Take Your Time, Olafur Eliasson
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by Katherine Whitney Published March 07 2008
How do you get strangers to interact in an art museum? Create dynamic spaces filled with light, color, water (even darkness) and no labels! I recently went to see the Olafur Eliasson exhibit at SFMOMA and I felt like I was at the Exploratorium. I went...
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Crookes' radiometer (Radiómetro de Crookes)
Case Study
by Karina Ocana Published October 05 2008
Transforming light and heat into movement! This exhibit shows how a Crookes' Radiometer works. The radiometer was invented and constructed by Sir William Crookes to measure the energy produced by light radiations. This device is a glass bulb with a...
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Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: Earworms
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by Rachel Bernstein Published December 30 2008
I could hear the exhibition "Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: Earworms" before I could see it. Ethereal, haunting, melodic, the music wafted from the dark room into the sunlit entryway of the Pasadena Museum of California Art. The exhibition was...
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Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World
Case Study
by Karina White Published June 22 2009
"Beautiful Science" is a permanent, 2500sf library exhibition that aims to present highlights from the history of science in intriguing and accessible ways. Our primary goal: To make a (truly) engaging library exhibition, bringing the books &...
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America I AM: The African American Imprint
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by Kara Hershorin Published March 02 2011
Last year I passed up a chance to visit the blockbuster exhibition, Terra Cotta Warriors. Determined not to miss another epic exhibit, I visited the award-winning touring show America I AM: The African American Imprint at the National Geographic...
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The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn!
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by Tara Owens Published March 02 2011
The Smithsonian’s new interactive exhibit The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn! (The Wonder of Light) premiered on November 9, 2010, in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Castel, officially named the Smithsonian Institution Building. As a group...
Sunbeams streaming through leaves
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by Wendy Pollock on August 24, 2011
Big pegboards are evidently used to create this moire pattern which, the makers say, "expresses symbolic beauty of natural phenomenon such as Komorebi (sunbeams streaming through leaves), Yurameki...