Occupying a focal point in the rotunda gallery of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, this media installation tells the story of Native peoples' healing traditions.
Visualizing spatial, geographical, and chronological relationships can bring a sense of perspective to storytelling components and collections. These projects utilize timelines and mapping interfaces to provide context for persons, events and places in a story or objects and artifacts in a collection, enlivening data and narrative in ways that enlighten and educate, while bringing to light concepts that may be hidden in the details.
In this part of the Earth Lab gallery, a vibrant display of photography harmonizes with three touchscreen interactives to tell the human story unfolding in response to a warming planet.
Interactive tower acts as a time machine for baseball statistics, allowing visitors to warp back in time to find record-breaking moments, historic milestones, and compare player statistics.
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.
Archaeological artifacts from the Presidio of San Francisco reawaken in this versatile and enlightening Web site.
Mysteries surrounding animals and environments from the past are unraveled through these two activity-based interactives.
A triptych of interactive touch screens connect three specimen groupings with stories revealing their shared evolutionary origins, challenges, and adaptations.
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.
Historic photographs, an environmental sound installation, and an interactive guest book transports visitors into the past to learn about the spectacular history of the Marion Davies Guest House.
A dynamic timeline serves up an archive of images to tell the story of Oregon’s history in diverse, personalized presentations.
An interactive, birds-eye view of Max Yasgur’s farm allows groups of visitors to explore the events that unfolded at the Woodstock Festival over three days.
A three-part suite of installations paint the soundscapes of music that preceded, defined, and descended from the Woodstock Festival.
Highlights from the International Quilt Study Center’s remarkable collection of quilts illustrate the evolution of an art form in this online and on-site interactive timeline.
Two large, motion graphics presentations outline the major battles of the Civil War before and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
In three different galleries, each focusing on one day in the Battle of Gettysburg, these interactive maps provide detailed data on Union and Confederate troops and their field locations.
Two animated map presentations break down the complex military strategies and sequences of every major battle of World War I.
The arts of the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean are contextualized in this large, interactive timeline-map installation at the Getty Villa.
A Web site explores the Chesapeake Bay—important to John Smith, Powhatan, Pocahontas, and the Jamestown colonists, as well as today’s inhabitants—revealing one of America’s most renowned and vital waterways.
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.
This online exhibition explores every American war through the Smithsonian’s comprehensive collection of American military artifacts.
© 2012 Second Story, Inc.