Weaving photography, artifacts, data visualizations, and interactive media, this section of the Earth Lab exhibit articulates the evidence of climate change and the role human activity is playing in its escalation.
Three-dimensional reconstructions bring remote, inaccessible, and forgotten spaces and places to life, they help visitors understand how an object works, and they reveal processes. Through these reconstructions and visualizations visitors can examine objects in display cases from any angle to understand how they work, and they can navigate through virtual environments that immerse them into places connected to ideas and information.
Nine towering panels filled with interactive media and artifacts reveal the past, present, and possibilities of the University of Oregon experience.
Since the historic eruption at Mount St. Helens scientists have been observing how life has returned to a devastated landscape; this interactive kiosk collects, preserves, and presents highlights of their ongoing discoveries.
A large-scale video projection in the heart of the Age of Mammals hall establishes the core theme of the exhibition: that as continents move, climates change, and mammals evolve.
Vibrant, 360 degree illustrations of The New York Botanical Garden’s glass Conservatory provide an interactive world to discover botany in this educational and colorful Web site.
Visitors manipulate a 3-D model of Kauffman Stadium in real time, learning about the design process while creating unique ballparks they can send to themselves via e-mail.
Recreated in three dimensions, this interactive whaling ship lets visitors examine every notable feature above and below decks to learn about life on board a vehicle that brought us America’s first oil industry.
Through a comprehensive database of images and objects connected to an interactive map of the plantation and a navigable 3-D recreation of the home, this Web site brings the experience of being at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to life online.
Through this media-rich experience, Web site and kiosk users explore a 3-D house to discover a Chinese region’s renowned architecture and the generations of a family that made it their home.
Interactive maps, measured drawings, and models of every tomb in the Valley of the Kings interconnect thousands of photographs, illustrations, and exhaustive research in this new standard for archeological publishing.
Two expansive interactive tables engage groups in diverse activities that reveal the strategic and technological aspects of the Great War as well as its cultural and political legacies.
A large mobile interactive touch screen in the lobby of the Portland Armory explores the value of preserving our architectural heritage and how sustainable building improves our world.
The process of how Cizhou wares were made during China’s Song and Yuan dynasties is revealed as visitors create their own vessel using the Web site’s tools.
Visitors can transcribe a seventeenth-century Japanese scroll, then create their own poems which are painted into it and ready to print from this Web site.
Web site visitors explore the piece-mold process that was used to create a Chinese tsun from the Western Zhou period as they create their own vessels.
Artifacts in a display case are liberated for discovery in this interactive station that illustrates the diverse writing systems for recording knowledge in the early Americas.
Users probe beneath layers of linen mummy wrappings to move between story levels and discover the mummies hidden within this media-rich Web site.
The National Geography Standards come to life in diverse, eclectic galleries inside this immersive, virtual museum of fantastic interactive installations and devices.
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