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A session at the conference a few years back (titled, I think, "Faking
It" - Eddie Goldstein was Master of Ceremonies) was really great, and it
was all about the merits of simulation/metaphor vs. reality. 

But to answer John's question, below.... is your museum going to take
visitors to a REAL tropical rain forest? Or get up close and personal
with real humpback whales, or attacking 6 foot long squid? Really take
folks scuba diving under the ice at the south pole, or to a massive oil
well fire? Going to bring in musicians from Brazil, Africa, Japan and a
whole lot of other countries for a single, real concert? Really take
people into space? Or on a real climb up Mount Everest?

Cause those are all things I immediately recall seeing in IMAX movies at
science centers. Maybe really doing them would be better than seeing the
documentary movie (or maybe not - I also recall the description of
climbers on Everest coughing so hard they suffered cracked ribs), but
that approach has issues. And the IMAX version was a rather cool
substitute.

Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
The Children's Museum

"If everyone is thinking alike, no one is thinking."
         -Bill Walton

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From: Informal Science Education Network
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Hi All,

I agree with this too! What ever happened to artifacts and REAL things
and exhibits?

John Bowditch
Exhibits Director
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum

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