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Yes, Discovery Creek Children's Museum
Annie A.K. Hanson
Director
Discovery Creek Children's Museum of Washington
P.O Box 70437
Washington, DC 20024
202-488-0627
fax: 202-488-1307
Children have a real understanding only of that which they invent
themselves, and each time we try to teach them something too quickly, we
keep them from reinventing it themselves.
Jean Piaget
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yes from cincinnati museum center
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Yes from the Museum of Science, Boston
Toni Dancu wrote:
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>Hello colleagues,
>
>*At your institution, do you currently have any "immersive" exhibits
(single
>exhibits, not entire exhibitions)? *
>
>We are defining an exhibit as *immersive* if it incorporates *any, not
>necessarily all*, of the following design characteristics:
> a. *Vertical surround*: Aspects of the exhibit extend over the
visitor's
>head or under the visitor's feet. Examples include larger-than-life
>walk-through exhibits like the heart at the Franklin institute and exhibits
>that you crawl inside, such as caves and coal mines.
> b. *Horizontal surround*: Aspects of the exhibit extend behind the
>visitor's back (literally). Examples include exhibits that you enter into,
>such as a cave, but not exhibits that you walk through, such as a tunnel at
>an aquarium.
> c. *Kinesthetic Involvement*: Enables the use of the visitor's whole
>body to navigate/explore the space or to investigate and explore a
>phenomenon (this is beyond walking through on a flat floor/stairs or
>sitting in a chair). Examples include crawling through a maze or casting
>colored shadows of your body on a wall, but not exhibits where visitors
>simply walk through a space.
>*
>We're just looking for a "yes" or "no" response. If you could, please
reply
>by January 28th.
>*
>Thank you very much for your time,
>
>Toni
>
>
>
>
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