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Eric-

Alas, the exhibit circulated in the dark ages before the internet and
digital cameras. I would be happy to tell you more about it off list if
you're interested. 

If you get as far as Toronto, take 2 days to go to Sudbury (1 day if you
fly). My older son - now the director of education for a science museum -
spent several hours on one exhibit at Science North when he was in his early
teens. The other son spent comparable time on other exhibits. 

Taking two sons to Science North - after having directed 3 museums - opened
my eyes to a different approach.

Ed


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Hi, Ed:

I would love to see this exhibition. 30 minutes per exhibit!  That is  
amazing.  I tried googling it to no avail, do you have a written  
description of the exhibit components or some pics you could share?

I am looking forward to going to Toronto later this Spring to see  
Agents of Change at Ontario Science Center also.  From what I have  
heard and seen (in pictures) this incorporates similarly open ended  
experiences.

Eric Siegel
esiegel at nyscience dot org




On May 16, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Ed Sobey wrote:

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology  
> Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related  
> institutions.
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> Eric-
>
> The point is that people do dwell longer at transactive exhibits.  
> They spend
> longer because they can do stuff (science).
>
> Years ago when I was directing the museum in Fresno, we circulated a
> traveling exhibit of trans-active (open-ended) experiences ("Move  
> it, Build
> it, Zap it"). Lawrence Hall and the Chicago Academy of Science  
> rented the
> exhibit. Both expressed amazement at how long people spent at each  
> exhibit
> and at the high level of interactivity between people at each exhibit.
>
> Chicago invested some money to study visitors. They found that  
> visitors were
> spending on average around 30 minutes per exhibit (the record they  
> reported
> was 60 minutes by one family at one exhibit). This is of course  
> orders of
> magnitude longer than a typical interactive exhibit.
>

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