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You can add the New York Hall of Science to that list. We have one of 
the original Eames "Mathematica" Exhibits on our floor.

Kathy Krafft wrote:

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> Yes, there are actually a number of us who have developed math exhibits 
> and exhibitions.  Our math exhibition (see below) has been very well 
> received and traveled for 6 years at this point-- one venue kept it for 
> almost a year as teachers loved the fact that it tied into their 
> curriculum.
> 
> Here is a list of math exhibits/exhibitions that I am aware of (all may 
> not be current):
> 
> --Fun, 2, 3, 4:  all about a number of things! is a traveling exhibition 
> we've developed on counting, measurement and graphing (details about 
> each exhibit from link at 
> http://www.sciencenter.org/exhibits/exhibitionsforrent.htm)
> --Everyone Counts-- Children's Museum of Houston
> --Solve It Central- Ann Arbor Hands on Museum
> --Moneyville by OMSI
> --Risk-- Fort Worth
> --Calculus exhibits (in-house) Science Museum of Minnesota
> --Easy as Pi was a group of about 10 tabletop math exhibits, of which a 
> number of copies were made for museums in a collaborative in North Carolina
> --Beyond Numbers-- Maryland-- long time ago
> --I also think of puzzles and problem solving as being closely related
> 
> I"m sure there are other math-related exhibits and exhibitions beyond 
> these (my apologies to those I forgot) and Mathematica which was 
> mentioned by someone else, and the TERC Math Momentum project which is 
> working, in part, to bring out and share the math that is in many of the 
> exhibits in our museums (we are part of this colloborative).. This will 
> get us started.. Sorry to be behind in replying- been out of town a lot 
> recently-- but didn't see any other responses to this query.
> 
> Kathy Krafft
> Director of Exhibits
> Sciencenter
> Ithaca NY
> 607-272-0600 ext 25
> 
> 
> Subject:
> What Went Wrong with New Math? Math in Museums?
> From:
> Wayne Watson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> Mon, 30 May 2005 20:36:12 -0700
> 
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> Yes, what did go wrong? I believe that got rolling in the 70s but 
> somewhere a long the line went out of style. Did something replace it?
> 
> Do museums get concerned about math? I'm not even sure the Exploratorium 
> in San Francisco pays much attention to it. Of course, there's the 
> Mathematica exhibit that stil can be found in a few places around the 
> U.S. that was created in the 60s, but that's the biggest effort that I 
> know about or can recall.

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