This multi-tiered interactive installation provides a variety of activities and behind-the-scenes expert insight to reveal how this unusual Los Angeles native was discovered, understood, and exhibited.
Visitors are given the tools to discover content through their own actions, creating personal pathways through information, forging experiences as diverse as their interests. Second Story provides the stage, the imagery, information, and atmosphere that allow audiences to create unique stories and personal pathways through content. Online content and site-specific installations converge, mutually enhancing the possibilities of storytelling and wonder.
A triptych of interactive touch screens connect three specimen groupings with stories revealing their shared evolutionary origins, challenges, and adaptations.
A collection of stories told by Walt Disney, his siblings and childhood friends come to life through a series of interactive animated drawings.
Through four interactive music stands surrounding images of Walt, playful creative activities reveal the various ways Disney employed sound and music in his animated features.
The artwork within a 15th-century medieval masterpiece is revealed, enhanced, and interpreted in the enchanting interfaces of this Web site and installation.
Walt Disney recounts stories from three periods in his childhood as period-inspired cut-outs animate on the stages of these toy theaters.
Visitors read and study a facsimile of this key political document, in which Mexico ceded regions of the southwest to the U.S., while contemporary interviews play out competing interpretations of the treaty.
A large-scale animated history of shifting boundaries in the southwest sets the stage for in-depth exploration of New Mexico’s political, cultural, and geographical landscapes.
High-resolution interactive images of animal hide paintings give an unprecedented view of these 18th-century artifacts that depict early encounters in New Mexico’s history.
Historical imagery and animations unveil the people, places, and events that shaped Santa Monica’s past in this playful and engaging Web site.
Three interactive stations present the cities and people that changed the sound of American music since the 1880s, while a dynamic projection of the United States plots visitor choices of musical epicenters overhead.
A three-part suite of installations paint the soundscapes of music that preceded, defined, and descended from the Woodstock Festival.
The symbolism, stories, and significance of the magnificent architecture within the Library of Congress are revealed in six large viewing stations uniquely positioned throughout the Great Hall.
The creative acts of our Founding Fathers are illuminated through enhanced electronic documents that reveal their thinking, their inspiration, and their iterative, collaborative process.
The organizational scheme for Thomas Jefferson’s library—the foundation of the Library of Congress—forms the interactive method for accessing every volume in the Jefferson collection and special tomes on display.
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.
The significance of Conquest-era events depicted in a series of colossal paintings are revealed through interpretive installations before them.
Diverse visualizations of the universe from cultures spanning centuries and continents are brought together in these interactive portals into the vast collections at the Library of Congress.
Two interactive stations challenge visitors to pack for battle or learn bugle calls in game-like experiences that illuminate a day in the life of a Civil War soldier.
Abraham Lincoln’s famous words are interpreted for visitors, and can be examined in detail, on two large touch screens showcasing the Gettysburg Address.
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