TRAVELING ExhIbITS
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TRAVELING ExhIbITS
503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu OMSI’s exhibit professionals have extensive expertise that can only be obtained through years of daily work at a highly c o n t i n e n ts successful museum. Consequently, our staff is particularly well-versed in the development of truly sustainable exhibition programs that serve both internal and external stakeholders, generate revenue, drive attendance, and fulfill visitor needs. c o u n t r i es c l i e n ts OUR SERVICES INCLUDE •Traveling Exhibits •Exhibit Component Sales •Exhibit Development, Design and Consulting Services CONTACT OMSI • 503.797.4659 • [email protected] • [email protected] • www.omsi.edu Exhibit Sales & Services OMSI’s exhibit sales and services are allencompassing. Highly experienced exhibit professionals take pride in producing some of the most interactive, robust, and educationally sound, handcrafted exhibits available. Our services are available individually or bundled into a full-scale, turn-key project. We work with you at each stage to help you identify Exhibit Sales & Services exhibit topics, test the feasibility of your ideas, and outline the steps necessary to turn your ideas into reality. Whether you seek museumrelated planning and consultation, component sales, exhibit development, design, evaluation or fabrication assistance, or fully designed and built custom exhibits, our museum professionals have the skills to suit your needs. NE Exhibit Component and Exhibition Sales Our catalog includes hundreds of tested and proven exhibit components, as well as numerous full exhibitions available for replication. New and replicated exhibits may be customized to meet your needs, from a change in colors to match your facility’s look to the addition of multilingual text to suit your audience. W TABLE TOP EXHIBITS Topics include: affordable • • • • • • • Developed to have a low footprint and low price tag flexible • Have been used successfully in libraries, schools, community events and museums Health and wellness Space Brain teasers Nanotechnology Renewable energy Natural science portable • Great as a stand-alone museum exhibit, or as part of an outreach program interactive • Hands-on interactives are the name of the game Topics include: Over 300 exhibits to choose from! 4 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu • Health and life science • Engineering and innovation/technology • Energy and the environment • Earth and natural science • Early childhood education • Physics and motion • Space and flight • Art and science • Math and economics • Puzzles, critical thinking, creative problem solving educational • Set to national education standards, guaranteed to be scientifically accurate, and evaluated for successful delivery of educational messages robust • Built to the same high level of quality as our full-sized exhibit components Contact [email protected]. Special package discounts, including outreach-ready exhibit packages in custom crating, are also available. 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu 5 Exhibit Sales & Services The R&D team works closely with advisory groups composed of nationally recognized experts to ensure scientific accuracy and relevant, cutting-edge, engaging content. “ The exhibit is fabulous. It is well-designed, colorful, informative and hands-on, and has created a real sensation both for our day events and night events. ” Wes Wenhardt, VP of Business Operations Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose PLANNING We know the challenges faced by museums as they try to create engaging exhibits for their visitors. Before determining the course of action, our team reviews a wide variety of factors, including facility layout and restrictions, visitor needs, sponsorship opportunities, topic ideas, marketing potential, and more. The resulting plan will blend the exhibit environment with your program needs, visitor interests, and educational goals. Research and DEVELOPMENT Exhibit development transforms concepts and scientific principles into engaging, energetic exhibits and programs. Our exhibit developers have more than 40 years of combined experience in conceptualizing and producing content for educational, interactive exhibits. The staff is experienced in all aspects of exhibit development, including bilingual co-development, copywriting, early childhood education, tabletop exhibit development, prototyping and analysis. 6 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu DESIGN EVALUATION Designers ensure that exhibits are not only attractive and engaging but also educationally sound, visitor-centric, highly interactive, durable, accessible, and practical to produce and maintain. Evaluators test to see that each project is educational, reliable, user friendly, accessible, safe, interesting, and engaging. Our evaluators work closely with the exhibit team by offering frontend, formative, remedial, and summative evaluation services. Our studies address aspects of exhibit programs such as educational approach, content, labels, interactivity, audience, usability, and environmental treatments. We can assist with research in exhibit effectiveness; accessibility; bilingual translations; visitor attitudes, beliefs and values; underserved audiences; visitor expectations, preferences, and experiences; and more. The team draws from a diversity of experience, including industrial design, architecture, graphic design, and photography. Exhibit-related designs include traveling and permanent exhibits, outdoor exhibitions, portable components, museum way-finding and signage, bus and trailer retrofits, artifact display cases, and exhibit hall environmental treatments. 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu 7 Exhibit Sales & Services LARGE TRAVELING EXHIBITS TRAVELING EXHIBITS For more than 20 years, OMSI has built a reputation for developing and touring excellent interactive traveling exhibitions. We have successfully managed tours for more than 50 exhibits to date, throughout North America and Europe. Our exhibits range in size from 500 to 7,000 sq. ft. NEW “ “ Whether you’re looking for an early childhood exhibit, such as Animal Secrets, a popular art and science exhibition, such as Animation, or a fun and timely exhibit about math and economics, such as Moneyville, OMSI has a topic and an exhibit to meet your needs and target audience or demographic. OMSI is the gold standard for traveling exhibits, they are the best in the country. Mary Henderson, Director, Lafayette Science Museum, Lafayette, LA ” The feedback we get from visitors for the exhibition has been fantastic. I know my DZ_Logo_FullColor_Horizontal.eps kids personally spent two hours in the exhibit and still want to come back. ” Tanya Vomacka, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Relations, MOSI: Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, FL Our artisans have over 150 years of combined experience specifically in the production of interactive exhibitions and, on average, 20 years of experience in their particular specialty. Size: 6,000 sq. ft. Price: $100,000 for 3 months Available: Beginning JUNE 2015 Design Zone is... • Relevant, educational, and marketable FABRICATION The fabrication team contributes to an exhibit’s design by evaluating each component for functional feasibility, durability, and budget compliance. Through its 25,000 sq. ft. production facility, our skilled artisans create more than 15,000 sq. ft. of exhibitions every year, including more than 100 individual exhibits. In addition to finished work, the shop also regularly fabricates prototype exhibits to test with visitors prior to final production. The team includes cabinetmakers, engineers, CAD and CNC technicians, software developers, electronics specialists, and welders. 8 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu • An experiential approach to algebraic thinking as a tool to create and invent everything from hip-hop to skate parks. Visitors can design their own experience, and in some cases, email their creations to family and friends. • A means to promote innovation and build math literacy by directly connecting mathematical concepts to reallife experiences. • A substantial professional development program for host museums, designed to leave a lasting impact on education and interpretive staff. • A nontraditional way for students ages 10-14 and their families to discover that math isn’t just a subject in school— it’s one of the coolest creative tools we have to design and invent. DESIGN ZONE INCLUDES THREE THEMATIC AREAS: ART Enter the Videogame Design Lab, the Architecture Studio, and the Digital Design zones to find out how creative problem solvers utilize key mathematical concepts to develop new visual ideas and turn them into reality. MUSIC Step into the DJ Recording Studio, On Stage!, and Dance Party zones and hear the math in the music. Learn about the relationships between length and pitch in musical instruments, ratios and rhythms, and visual representations of sound. ACTION In the Theme Park and Action Sports zones you’ll discover the math and physics behind anything that moves. 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu 9 LARGE TRAVELING EXHIBITS “ LARGE TRAVELING EXHIBITS “ Great interactives in this exhibit allowed our visitors to do actual animation. So many hands-on exhibits rely on analogs, but this exhibit provides easy to use tools to do the real thing. ” This was one of the most well received exhibits we’ve hosted in years. It appealed to families, school groups, even staff! We saw visitors of all ages spending hours working on the puzzles. ” Brian Mancuso, Director, Exhibits, The Health Museum, Houston, TX Lisa Marchisio, Exhibit Operations Manager, Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA Size: 6,000 -7,000 sq. ft. Price: $100,000 for 3 months Available: Beginning OCTOBER 2012 Size: 6000 sq. ft. Price: $100,000 for 3 months Available: Beginning FEBRUARY 2013 U p dated gra p h ics ! Animation... Mindbender Mansion is... • Teaches the process of animation by bringing together art, math, science, and technology incorporating colorful, larger-than life graphics of popular characters from Cartoon Network. • An eclectic place full of brainteasers and interactive challenges guaranteed to test brainpower and problem solving skills. A fun and quirky mansion where visitors are invited to join the Mindbender Society by gathering hidden clues and secret passwords scattered throughout various thematic rooms. • Delights families and children as they experiment with their own storyboarding, character design, drawing techniques, movement, timing, filming, sound, and editing • Is a powerful and effective tool for engaging and teaching all ages about math and science concepts like perception, illusion, persistence of vision, geometry, and measurement, making it ideal for school groups (grades K-8). Animation inCLUDEs six thematic areas: • History: Visitors can try using a praxinoscope to spin three-dimensional figures into a single animation, and can “crank” out animations with an old-fashioned mutoscope. • Animation Studio: They’ll learn about the process of animation, story creation, and animator techniques and tools. • A combination of tabletop brainteasers visitors can solve on their own and full-body group challenges that require collaboration and teamwork. • A wonderful world of math, science, and technology where visitors must identify patterns, use logical reasoning, and look at the problems from different perspectives. • Art in Motion: With help from the characters of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, visitors will discover why art and math are important allies when it comes to creating characters, motion, and change. Mindbender Mansion includes five group challenges: • Feeding Frenzy: Kitchen mayhem is guaranteed in a race to beat the clock by filling T.V. dinner trays with five kinds of food on a fast-moving conveyer belt. • Animation Laboratory: Dexter’s Laboratory teaches the science and technology that make animation possible, such as the technique of “squash and stretch” and time-lapse videos. • Flying Machine: Solid teamwork is a must in order to maneuver a mechanical “flying machine” around a large game board, hitting six targets in sequence before time is up. • Sound and Stage: Discover the principles of sound and phonetics with the characters from Chowder, Ben 10: Alien Force, and Kids Next Door. • Spelling Fever: Hopscotch meets Scrabble® in this race to spell correct words within a limited amount of time by hopping on letter squares that light up. • Cartoon Museum: Take a seat in an intimate theater setting and view clips of popular animations while learning the secrets behind their production, and examine important artifacts from classic animations such as Scooby-Doo, The Powerpuff Girls, and The Flintstones. R educed ! f ee rental • Move and Match: Dinner time was never this much fun! Slide your dining room chairs on wheels into a correct pattern before the clock runs out. • Amazing Maze: In this version of the classic steel ball labyrinth game, visitors must work together to tilt a table in different directions, guiding a ball into six holes as quickly as possible. TM and ©2011 Cartoon Network. All rights reserved. Size: 6,000 sq. ft. • Price: $100,000 for 3 10 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu months • Available: Beginning JUNE 2012 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu 11 MID-SIZE TRAVELING EXHIBITS “ SMALL TRAVELING EXHIBITS “ The Museum saw an increase of 25% in attendance during Moneyville’s 3 month run. Moneyville was so popular with our visitors that the following summer we had several inquiries about where it was! ” Joy Summar-Smith, Associate Director, Dr. Pepper Museum, Waco,TX Brent Tharp, Director, Georgia Southern University Museum, Statesboro, GA Size: 2,000 sq. ft. Price: $30,000 for 3 months Available: Beginning June 2012 Size: 700 sq. ft. Price: $7,500 for 3 months Available: Beginning FEBRUARY 2013 Money isn’t just about dollars and cents. The ancient Aztecs used chocolate for money, and Yap Islanders used 500-lb. stones! So what is money and how does it work? Families, adults, and children can explore the history, science, math, and economics behind money in Moneyville. This highly interactive traveling exhibition uses the familiar and fascinating subject of money to build math skills and promote economic literacy in a fun, immersive, urban environment. MONEYOPOLIS is a registered trademark of Ernst & Young. The MONEYVILLE trademark is used under license. Participants discover economic concepts, math skills, and problem-solving strategies that can help them in their real-life decision making. Moneyville meets national math and economics standards, making it ideal for school groups (grades K-8). “ Animal Secrets was a fun and educational exhibition for our visitors, from toddlers to adults. OMSI’s service was great! ” Brianna Cutts, Director of Exhibitions, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA Size: 2,500 sq. ft. Price: $30,000 for 3 months Available: Beginning October 2013 Where does a chipmunk sleep? What does an eagle feed its young? How do mother bats find their babies in a cave? Families will learn the answers to these questions and more as they explore the hidden habitats and secret lives of forest animals. Play with animals in a realistic habitat at the Stream. Observe the sights and sounds of the Meadow. Pretend to be an eagle, chipmunk, and raccoon in the Woods. Explore the Cave and investigate specimens from the natural world in the Naturalists’ Tent. Animal Secrets is specially designed for children ages 3-8, preschool to 3rd grade school groups, and has English and Spanish text panels. 12 I am most impressed with the variety of innovative, interactive ways that content is delivered for an exhibit of this size. Visitors of all ages enjoyed them and returned several times to individual stations and we all know how important repetition is to learning. 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu ” Satellites have dramatically changed the way we study our planet. A View from Space, a bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibit gives museum visitors a chance to see the world from a satellite’s perspective. Visitors will be able to track a hurricane from space, send a satellite spinning into orbit around a model Earth, study astonishing images of our planet captured by NASA’s Earth Observing System, and more. “ The Duluth Children’s Museum was able to host this exhibit for a six month window which is longer than most exhibits can hold the interest of the visitor. Our members never became tired of seeing this exhibit on our floor and repeat visitation increased during the course of the exhibit’s venue. Rich Jaworski, Vice President of Operations, Programs & Collections Duluth Children’s Museum, Duluth, MN Size: 1,000 sq. ft. Price: $9,500 for 3 months Available: Beginning june 2013 ” Children ages 2-7 create, play, and learn as they explore the concepts of construction, motion, and simple machines. Visitors can hand-operate a pulley or conveyer belt to explore cause and effect, and turn the wheels of a gantry crane to transport cargo. The openended nature of the materials and activities allows creativity to flourish. Little Builders is also a learning laboratory for parents, teachers, and other care providers to observe, understand, and interact with their little builders. 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu 13 SMALL TRAVELING EXHIBITS “ AN INDUSTRY LEADER IN EXPERTISE AND SUSTAINABILITY More than 7,000 visitors of all ages enjoyed and were challenged by Brain Teasers – a sought-after addition to our annual Summer Sundays outreach program. ” Jeanne DAscoli, Manager for Community Relations, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Size: 500 sq. ft. Price: $4,800 for 3 months Available: Beginning FEBRUARY 2013 From mathematical conundrums to mind-boggling block puzzles, handson problem solving is the theme of this popular traveling exhibition, for individuals of all ages. Each puzzle stimulates active participation, NEW requiring creative thinking and innovative strategies to solve the challenges. Visitors to this exhibit have been known to return time and time again in hopes of solving all of these fun and educational puzzles! “ After visiting “Eat Well, Play Well,” you walk away with a better understanding of the importance of healthy eating habits. This exhibit is very well received by visitors of all ages. A must have for all museums, big or small. ” SEPA The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is an independent educational resource center dedicated to improving the public’s understanding of science and technology. Founded in 1944, OMSI operates a 219,000 sq. ft. facility that includes five exhibit halls, seven science labs, a planetarium, an OMNIMAX giant-screen theater, the USS Blueback submarine, and an early childhood education area. OMSI leads the industry in promoting the use of sustainable and environmentally friendly materials and processes. We were the first institution to develop a LEED-inspired Green Exhibit Checklist, which uses eight broad categories such as End-Life Assessment, use of Low-Emitting Materials, and Recycled Content to accurately measure an exhibit’s environmental friendliness. We have developed and produced thousands of interactive science exhibits for more than 65 years. We are internationally known for the exceptionally high levels of quality, innovation, interactivity, and educational integrity of the exhibits we develop, design, and build. We have been providing premium quality traveling exhibits for over 25 years, and offering exhibit sales and exhibit consulting services for over 20. Consequently, wehave regular interaction with a wide range of museums, visitor’s centers, aquariums, interpretive centers, libraries, government agencies, and other organizations throughout the world. We receive constant feedback on the needs, trends, and challenges facing museums and science centers today, placing our team’s collective fingers on the pulse of the industry. SCIENCE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP AWARD Supported by the National Center for Research Resources, a part of the National Institutes of Health Darlene Griffith, Collections Manager, Tunica Museum, Tunica, MS AVAILABLE IN 3 SIZES Size: 1,500 sq. ft. A Price: $18,000 (21 Exhibit components) Available: Beginning February 2013 B Size: 800 sq. ft. Price: $7,500 (9 Exhibit components) Available: Beginning February 2013 C Size: 500 sq. ft. Price: $5,500 (6 Exhibit components) Available: Beginning june 2012 Visitors explore nutrition and fitness in Eat Well, Play Well, a new bilingual (English / Spanish) exhibit featuring fun, hands-on components. Nutrition and fitness education come together to encourage all-around healthy living for visitors of all ages! Families, children, and school groups explore fun and interesting ways to be active—and the science of making healthy food choices. Eat Well, Play Well is educational, entertaining, and empowering. Visitors will realize that healthy choices are within everyone’s reach! 14 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu C l ien t s I nc l u d e : United States American Lung Association Arkansas Discovery Network Austin Children’s Museum, Austin, TX Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Dayton, OH Butterfly House, St. Louis, MO California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA CH2MHill Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, IL Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH Connecticut Science Center, Hartford, CT COSI Columbus, Columbus, OH Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO Detroit Zoo, Detroit, MI Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA Ft. Worth Museum of Science & History, Ft. Worth, TX Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, OH Health Adventure, Asheville, NC Imagination Station, Toledo, OH Intel Corporation Jack Rouse Associates Kirby Science Discovery Center, Sioux Falls, SD Lafayette Natural History Museum, Lafayette, LA Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ Louisville Science Center, Louisville, KY MacGillivray Freeman Films Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, FL Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL Museum of Health & Medical Science, Houston, TX Museum of Science, Boston, MA NASA, Cape Canaveral, FL NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab, CA New York Botanical Gardens New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY Omaha Children’s Museum, Omaha, NE Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, OR Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA Port of Los Angeles, CA Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Space Center Houston, Houston, TX Strategic Air & Space Museum, Omaha, NE Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, VA St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA Texas Forestry Museum, Lufkin, TX United States Department of Agriculture Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton, VA Virginia Zoo, Norfolk, VA International BEA Bern Expo, Bern, Switzerland Calgary Science Centre, Calgary, Canada Children’s Museum of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon El Centro de Ciencias y Arte (Explora), Panama City, Panama Event Marketing Services GmbH, Vienna, Austria Hancock Museum, Newcastle, UK Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong, PRC John Janzen Nature Centre, Edmonton, Canada Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, UK Museum Victoria (Scienceworks), Melbourne, Australia National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK National Science & Technology Museum, Taiwan, ROC Nordstar GmbH, Rostock, Germany Oil Sands Interpretive Centre, Fort McMurray, Canada Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico Petrosains, The Discovery Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PT. Para Bandung Propertindo, Jakarta, Indonesia Pusat Sains Negara Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Science Museum of London, London, UK Science North, Sudbury, Canada Science World, Vancouver, Canada Shanghai Energy Resource Center, Shanghai, PRC SM Science Discovery Center, Manila, Philippines Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science & Technology Center, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia Tampere Museums, Tampere, Finland Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden TELUS World of Science, Calgary, Canada The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, Canada Trompo Mágico Museo Interactivo, Zapopan, Mexico United Exhibits Group, Copenhagen, Denmark Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum, Kitchener, Canada W5, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Exhibit Sales and Traveling Exhibits 1945 SE Water Avenue • Portland, Oregon 97214 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.edu 503.797.4659 • www.omsi.eduOMSI is an independent, non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization
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