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Sara,

Steve Bitgood, I believe, has done considerable work with diaramas at the 
Alabama natural history museum. Also, Margie Marino and then Judy Koke 
studied diaramas as part of a major revision of galleries at the Denver 
Museum of Nature and Science. I heard conference presentations on both of 
these studies and they had some very interesting and useful findings. You 
might try searching for those names for citations at 
www.informalscience.org.

Judy Koke is now at the Institute for Learning Innovation and her email on 
on their webpage.

Steve's email is: [log in to unmask]

Best Regards,

Carey

Carey Tisdal
Tisdal Consulting
4475 West Pine Blvd., #1705
St.Louis, MO 63108
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Cell: 314-496-9097
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From: "Sara DeAngelis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:10 AM
Subject: Dioramas


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We¹re considering including several small diorama-like exhibits our new
natural science exhibition.  Our team has a lot of questions about impact of
dioramas, costs, etc.

1) Is anyone aware of audience research how visitors interact with
traditional or enhanced dioramas?  For museums who have added to traditional
dioramas what has been the change in interaction and or learning? What
enhancements to traditional dioramas have been most effective in engaging
families?

2) How does one go about estimating the cost for a diorama?  What is the
range of costs associated with different types of rendering?  We¹ve seen a
lot of different types of renderings out there!

3) Is there such a think as a ³green² diorama?

4) How does one go about prototyping a diorama without building one?  Are
there museums out there that have small de-installed dioramas that could be
borrowed or sold that we could then adapt in our prototyping.

Lots of questions!

Thanks,

Sara



Sara DeAngelis
Project Manager/Lead Exhibit Developer
Brooklyn Children¹s Museum
145 Brooklyn Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11213

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