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Signe

How was your turnout for this event?  We know of some museums that are
closed on Easter because most visitors apparently don't want to come on that
day. Has that been your experience? Do you think you had more people than
normal because of the adventure, and did you publicize it?

We plan to be open but are not sure what to expect.

Thanks!

Cathy



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Catherine Olmer

Executive Director, WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology
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On 3/30/04 2:59 PM, "Signe Pereira" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Hi Alissa,
>
> Every last Sunday at the MIT Museum, we do something called Family
> Adventures in Science and Technology.  One month last year it fell on
> Easter Sunday.  So off we went to a local distributor and got 30
> dozen eggs.  Here's what we did:
>
> Egg in a bottle (by the way you can get the egg out with vinegar and
> baking soda but it does make a mess!)
>
> We had an egg drop competition.
>
> Egg throwing.  Throw an egg as hard as you can at a bed sheet or
> large piece of cloth, that is hung very loosely.  The egg won't break
>
> We had kids separate hard boiled from raw eggs by spinning them.
>
> We put several eggs in vinegar so people could see and feel an egg
> with no shell.
>
> Lastly at each station we gave science explanations for each and as
> something fun we gave out recipes for natural egg dyes so kids could
> color eggs.
>
> We still had a lot of eggs left over.  Needless to say the museum
> staff was pretty sick of egg salad for a while!!  If you want any
> more details you can contact me directly.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Signe Pereira, M.Ed.
> Education Coordinator
> MIT Museum
> 265 Massachusetts Ave.
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> Tel: 617-253-9607
> Fax: 617-253-8994
> http://web.mit.edu/museum/
>

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