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Exhibit Services News
- November 19, 2009 - Imaginarium Alaska site visit By Chris Dang
Dave Fleming and myself took a trip last week to visit the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. We are currently building 24 exhibits for the galleries in their expansion project, and this visit was a chance for us to survey the construction site and investigate how we will be installing some of the larger exhibits [...]
- November 19, 2009 - Fort Worth has Lit the Lantern… By Sam Dean
The week-long build-up to the Fort Worth opening is rolling along. Monday, the museum hosted a media preview, and at dusk officially turned on the Urban Lantern for the public.
The past two nights have been time to bring donors into the building for a first view of the new place, building up to the ribbon-cutting [...] - September 4, 2009 - Survey Monkey By Ken Finn
So, the time has come for me to get some information out of program participants.
In this case, I mean the hearty folks who attended my “Out and About” sessions of the Exploratorium’s Summer Camp. These 11-14 year olds spent five days with me outside hiking what totaled to be twenty miles as we explored [...] - August 25, 2009 - Collecting Black Sand By Ken Finn
So, for years and years (forty?) we have told people visiting the Exploratorium that they could bring a magnet out to Ocean Beach and collect their very own Black Sand. I know this can be done since one upon a time I was the Black Sand getter. Rather than bring sand back to be dried, [...]
- March 3, 2009 - Visit to ISEA in Van, Texas By Sam Dean
Last week, I was fortunate to be able to take a roadtrip through Texas, visiting our ExNet and TexNet partners there while heading over to the Informal Science Education Association of Texas Meeting in Van, February 25-27, 2009.