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Psychology Exhibition
Case Study
by Gretchen Jennings Published May 03 2007
The Psychology Exhibition was created as the major public education initiative of the American Psychological Association (APA) in celebration of its centennial in 1992. The Ontario Science Centre in Toronto was selected by APA as its partner in the...
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Plants Are Up To Something
Case Study
by Karina White Published May 22 2007
Plants Are Up To Something is a 16,000 square-foot exhibition full of spectacular plants and interactive exhibits. Our big idea: Use your scientific skills of observation, comparison, measurement, and analysis to understand the amazing things that...
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Pictures of Sound
Case Study
by David Bailey Published June 25 2007
One of the toughest challenges we had working on the Wild Music exhibition was adhering to our goal of creating exhibits that were accessible to visually impaired people. Knowing that the primary activity for many of the exhibits would be listening to...
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Making Models
Case Study
by Christine Reich Published April 18 2007
For more than a decade, the Museum of Science was engaged in a major, long-term exhibition plan called "Science is an Activity" that aimed to engage visitors in activities that fostered science thinking skills. Making Models was the fourth and final...
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Wild Music: Sounds & Songs of Life
Case Study
by Wendy Pollock Published April 10 2007
Wild Music explores evidence for the biological origins of music through highly interactive exhibits and exceptional sound experiencesand in the process, expands our understandings of what makes music.
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Darkened Waters: Profile of an Oil Spill
Case Study
by Kathleen McLean Published January 09 2008
INTRODUCTION The November 2007 oil spill in the San Francisco Bay was an ugly deja vu. As I read about the initial collision report, the first emergency response, the rising anger of powerless citizens, and the desperate attempts of oiled seabirds to...
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The Discovery Room
Case Study
by Judith White Published August 16 2007
The first Discovery Room opened in 1974 in a spacious light-filled corner room next to the exhibit halls in the Smithsonians Museum of Natural History. The Room was the first place in a museum devoted to collections, where visitors were allowed to...
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Invention at Play
Case Study
by Gretchen Jennings Published June 07 2007
Developed by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, this exhibition aims to bring a fresh perspective to the topic of invention,...
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Jukebox Memories
Case Study
by Jim Spadaccini Published December 05 2007
Jukebox Memories is a computer-based exhibit that plays #1 hit songs from the years 1955 to 1995. It was originally developed as part of the Exploratorium's Memory exhibition. A simple "question and answer" format was developed to keep visitors...
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nanoZone
Case Study
by Darrell Porcello Published June 13 2007
The nanoZone is both a website and an exhibition at UC Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science. The exhibition introduces basic nanoscale and state-of-the-art nanotechnology science to an 8 to 14-year-old audience. Content focuses on the smallness of a...
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Greenhouse Earth
Case Study
by Wendy Pollock Published April 23 2007
The exhibition looked at the science behind global climate changehow people are changing the atmosphere, what effects these changes may have on climate and on people, and what might be done to mitigate it. Major subthemes/areas: Greenhouse Earth...
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Animal Eyes
Case Study
by Beth Redmond-Jones Published April 12 2007
Animal Eyes Do dogs see in color? Do cats see what we see? Do some animals have more than two eyes? Answers to questions like these were the subject of Animal Eyes, an exhibition that explored what we know about human and animal vision, as well as our...
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Water: H2O = Life
Case Study
by Bette Schmit Published April 29 2009
Water: H2O = Life offers visitors the fascinating story of waters influence on Earth and, simultaneously, a cautionary tale of growing demands on an essential and limited resource. Using a full palette of interpretive techniquesnatural history and...
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Hunters of the Sky
Case Study
by Adele Binning Published February 06 2009
Hunters of the Sky was a 5,000-7,000 sq. ft. exhibit. It consisted of about 100 exhibit components including a combination of interactives that helped visitors explore flight, anatomy, diet and other aspects of raptor biology, display cases with...
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Be Here Now
Case Study
by Diane Whitmore Published December 09 2008
How can a developer design a meditative space in a noisy environment like the Exploratorium? In this case study, I'll expose the process and decision points that led to a surprisingly minimal acoustical treatment. At Be Here Now, an exhibit in the...