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We get 2-3 traveling exhibits a year. As I mentioned, we have nowhere
near the $$$ or space to do the real blockbuster types like Body Worlds.
In addition to World We Create (saw the original in Louisville last
year, also excellent) my two faves were:
1) Giganotosaurus. The full-body cast of this dino skeleton just barely
fit in our exhibit hall. It was a pain to mix the wax/sand medium for
the dig pits (and stinky!) but I think it worked much better than any of
the other stuff we've tried.
2) Experiment Gallery. This one was from the Science Museum of
Minnesota; as good as the traveling version is, SMM's full sized version
is completely off the hook.
The other things we've had have, IMNSHO, ranged from "pretty good" to
"Eh" to "Blech!"
[And trying to answer the original poster's question about simple
machines exhibits... I haven't seen it in action, but I did note at last
year's conference dealer's room that the exhibit "Cool Moves" from
ScienCenter looked promising...]
Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
The Children's Museum
"Have they learned nothing from Mecha-Godzilla?"
-Stephen Colbert
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Jonah,
We liked TWWC also. What are the 2 other travelers you liked, and how
many do you host each year?
Thanks,
Don Marvel
Exhibits Director
WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology
308 West 4th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47404
Phone: #812.337.1337 x 22
Fax: #812.330.1337
www.wonderlab.org
Quoting Jonah Cohen <[log in to unmask]>:
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> Janine -
>
> I'm not sure if you were looking for a traveling exhibit you could
> temporarily rent or a permanent one to buy. But if it's the former....
>
> My museum is limited by size and (especially) money, and in the past
10
> years we've had only 3 traveling exhibits that I'd rate as really
good.
> One of them was "The World we Create", an engineering themed one with
> tons of simple machine tie-ins. It comes from the Louisville Science
> Center (http://www.louisvillescience.org/site/index/) where they have
a
> bigger, permanent version of their own (also excellent).
>
> Jonah Cohen
> Outreach & Public Programs Manager
> The Children's Museum
>
> "Have they learned nothing from Mecha-Godzilla?"
> -Stephen Colbert
>
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Don Marvel
Exhibits Director
WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology
308 West 4th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47404
Phone: #812.337.1337 x 22
Fax: #812.330.1337
www.wonderlab.org
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