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An explainer helps children with a hands-on experience
at Canberra's Questacon.
Photo courtesy Questacon
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In addition to providing opportunities
for sightseeing...and a library of teaching props, a museum can,
in an overall way, make very deep, lasting impressions on its
visitors. It can reestablish the visitors' confidence in their
own ability to understand and to learn.
—Frank Oppenheimer,
Working Prototypes, 1986
 Cheap
Exhibit Ideas
Sound
in Science Center Exhibits
Outdoor
Exhibits
Working
with Scientists
Working
with Artists
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Resources
Cheap Exhibit Ideas
These profiles are based on the popular series Cheapbook: A
Compendium of Inexpensive Exhibit Ideas, edited by Paul Orselli.
The books, which are available from ASTC Publications, include
contributions from exhibit developers worldwide.
 Daniel
Goldwater: Harmonic Cantilever, 1995
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Sound
in Science Center Exhibits
Listening
to Exhibits
The resources you'll find here
came initially from a workshop called Listening to Exhibits,
held in Phoenix, Arizona, in October 2001, in conjunction
with the ASTC Annual Conference. The workshop was designed
to heighten awareness of the museum soundscape—from
ambient sound and noise to sound as an element of multisensory
exhibit experiences.
Music
of Nature
Groundwork report from 2003-4 planning for a traveling exhibition
about the music of nature, and the nature of music.
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More Resources
 ExhibitFiles.org
ExhibitFiles is a community website for and by people who make exhibits—a place to meet colleagues, find out about exhibits, and share your own. Development of ExhibitFiles is a project of ASTC, in collaboration with Ideum, Independent Exhibitions, and a distinguished group of contributors and advisors, with funding from the National Science Foundation. The ExhibitFiles blog opened in July 2006.
ASTC
Publications sells books about exhibitions in science
centers and museums, including the Cheapbook series,
Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions, User Friendly:
Hands-On Exhibits That Work, the Cell Lab Cookbook,
Experiment Bench, and more.
GreenExhibits.org
provides resources for museum planners who want to design and build more sustainable exhibits and facilities.
TryScience.org
offers a search feature that searches the web sites of more
than 400 science centers. If you are looking for exhibitions
on a particular topic, this is a good place to start.
British
Interactive Group (BIG)
An organization "for people running science centres...artists,
archaeologists, educators, students, front of house staff,
evaluators and anyone involved in hands-on communication."
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