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Bill, 

	We have done a Forensics Unit in our lab. We run it about once per
year. The content was gleaned from a CRC Forensics lab manual as well as a
visit with local detectives. 

Tim Pula
Science Coordinator
Gulf Coast Exploreum
www.Exploreum.com
65 Government St. 
Mobille, AL 36602
251-208-6858
 
Join us each month for a new experience in the Ciba Lab.
 
GO GREEN this summer with Frogs.
June 13th-November 2nd
 
 
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Hello (again), everyone - 

Thanks to everyone for your many responses to my request for science
centers with videoconferencing facilities! I'm looking forward to
reviewing the links I received and learning more. 

I had such a good response to that request that I thought I'd try
another one: 

I'm also conducting a search for forensic labs in science
centers/museums. A few years ago, I was involved in the development of
the Ciba Lab, a "wet" Chemistry lab on the exhibit floor at the Gulf
Coast Exploreum Science Center (http://www.exploreum.com/cibalab.html).
At the time, the folks at OMSI were generous guides, helping us to learn
from their experience with a Chemistry lab on the exhibit floor. We also
purchased (?) their handbooks - 2 thick volumes - on how to set up a lab
and get started with activities for it. 

Does anyone have - or know of - a science center/museum that has set up
a comparable lab specifically for Forensic science? Alternatively, has
your science center - or one you know of - done a Forensic science
"unit" in your Chemistry (or other) exhibit-floor-based lab space? 

Thanks in advance for any information/leads you might have. 

Bill

Bill Watson 
Chief of Onsite Learning Venues
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
(202) 633-1127
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