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The best Chemistry exhibits I've seen are those that are in a lab. We
recently built a Chemistry Lab right on our exhibit floor, called the
Ciba Lab (funded by Ciba Specialty Chemicals). It's semicircular in
nature and includes 6 lab benches. Visitors come in, don goggles, and
sit down to do as many of the experiments we've put out on the tables as
they'd like to do. We change the "exhibits" once each month along a
different theme (Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Reactions, etc.).
This approach is not unique in the science center world, of course. We
modeled our space on OMSI's Chem Lab and our experiments on their
NSF-funded curriculum. However, we have made several adjustments, the
biggest of which is the accessibility of the Ciba Lab. It is a part of
the exhibit floor, not a room off of it. We also use it as a
demonstration area, as we are a small-medium science center and needed
the space for that, as well. It's a very active space.
To me, this kind of "exhibit" is the best chemistry we can offer to our
visitors. Most of the other exhibits I've seen in chemistry are "push
button" in nature and just don't have the impact that exhibits in life
and physical sciences do. I'll be interested to see the responses to
this thread.
All of that said, we did purchase 7 off-the-shelf chemistry exhibits
from Science Alive! in New Zealand. (http://www.sciencealive.co.nz/) The
line between chemistry and physics is a fine one, and these exhibits
might just fall on the physics side of the line. But we found enough to
satisfy our Chemists, so those are the exhibits we went with. They were
very inexpensive, and pretty durable, too.
Bill
Bill Watson
Education Director
Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center
Mobile, AL
(251) 208-6851
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From: Informal Science Education Network
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Have a look at our the account of our Chemiquest exhibition at
<http://www.astc.org/resource/chemist/chemqust.htm>
The account is a bit old and many of our exhibits have been improved
since
but it's a good account of how we (and quite a few others) saw it in
1997 or
thereabouts.
Regards
--
Harry White, Concept Development Director
Techniquest, Stuart Street, Cardiff, UK. CF10 5BW
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> Does anyone have a favorite hands-on chemistry exhibit(ion) they have
seen
> that they particularly like and/or thought was successful? It doesn't
have
> to be a traveling exhibit it can be a permanent one as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul Siboroski
> Exhibits Director
> Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
> 619.685.5742
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