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Hi Everyone, and especially to the ExhibitFiles folks,
Just thinking about fact that the readers and writers of this list not only have topics or threads which fascinate them, but decades worth of examples that jingle a little bell in the crowded dusty halls of memory, whenever a new thread gets started.
Could/should ExhibitFiles.org have an ability to follow threads from this list and be a cache point for these examples? For instance: my favorite "metaphor of rainforest" ever displayed was at CosmoCaixa Barcelona, where the entire foyer wall was lined with leaves. Every single leaf fallen on a random ten cubic meters in the Amazon ... hundreds of them. The simplicity of displaying the diversity, volume and beauty of this "collection" was science museum poetics at its best.
How many thousands of anecdotes do we have to share with one another?
a colleague far from her original home,
Wendy Jo Coones
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A session at the conference a few years back (titled, I think, "Faking
It" - Eddie Goldstein was Master of Ceremonies) was really great, and it
was all about the merits of simulation/metaphor vs. reality.
But to answer John's question, below.... is your museum going to take
visitors to a REAL tropical rain forest? Or get up close and personal
with real humpback whales, or attacking 6 foot long squid? Really take
folks scuba diving under the ice at the south pole, or to a massive oil
well fire? Going to bring in musicians from Brazil, Africa, Japan and a
whole lot of other countries for a single, real concert? Really take
people into space? Or on a real climb up Mount Everest?
Cause those are all things I immediately recall seeing in IMAX movies at
science centers. Maybe really doing them would be better than seeing the
documentary movie (or maybe not - I also recall the description of
climbers on Everest coughing so hard they suffered cracked ribs), but
that approach has issues. And the IMAX version was a rather cool
substitute.
Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
The Children's Museum
"If everyone is thinking alike, no one is thinking."
-Bill Walton
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Hi All,
I agree with this too! What ever happened to artifacts and REAL things
and exhibits?
John Bowditch
Exhibits Director
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
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