This page lists TechnoFrolics exhibits that are accessible to the public. (It does not include exhibits known with certainty to have finished their tour, been retired, etc.)

Please note:

• Some accessible on special occasion or by appointment only.
• This list is in alphabetical order by state.
• International and touring installations are at the end of the list.
• Private collectors of smaller items are in general not listed.
• This list was last updated December 2007 and is subject to change without notice.
• As this exhibit list dates back to 1990 install dates, it is strongly suggested that you contact the relevant institutions to confirm the exhibit's availability before making a special trip to view it.

Gulf Coast Exploreum (Permanent Installation: Public)
65 Government Street
Mobile, AL 36602
(334) 208-6883

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).
• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.

McWane Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
200 Nineteenth Street North
Birmingham, AL 35203
phone: (205) 714-8300

• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse content including lightning, tides, muffins baking, explosive building demolition, and more.

America West Arena, APS Quadrangle (Semi-Permanent Installation: Public)
201 East Jefferson Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
phone: (602) 379-2000

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer featuring a large plasma screen. All kinds of cool sports (hockey, soccer, etc.) and nature (storms, clouds, etc.) footage.

Arizona Science Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
600 East Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 716-2000

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).
• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing timelapse footage of flowers blooming, clouds, a city at night, flyover of arizona desert.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 containing timelapse footage of high speed house construction from Extreme Makeover, Home Edition.

Aquarium of the Pacific (Permanent Installation: Public)
100 Aquarium Way
Long Beach, CA 90802
phone: (562) 590-3100

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing jellyfish, octopus, sea horses, birds, and more.

Art Barn (Permanent Installation: Private - By Invitation Only)
Santa Ynez, CA
Contact Chris Hopmans phone (805) 687-5239
or Susan Hopmans-Bermant email <lavista@silcom.com>

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).

California Science Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
700 State Drive
Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
phone: (213) 744-7482

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing footage of decomposition, including a rabbit, pumpkin, strawberry, and rat.

Center for Water Education (Permanent Installation: Public)
2325 Searl Parkway
Hemet, CA 92543
phone: (951) 791-0990.

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing HD footage of dam building, water in various forms in nature, and more.

Monterey Bay Aquarium (Permanent Installation: Public)
886 Cannery Row
Monterey, CA 93940-1085
phone: (831) 644-7521

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing HD footage of tidal cycle.

MOSI Museum of Science and Industry (Permanent Installation: Public)
4801 East Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33617
phone: (813) 987-6340

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing watermelon exploding, hummingbird wings in flight, and more.

Caterpillar Inc. (Permanent Installation: Open to the public only on special occasions)
Technical Center, Bldg. A
PO Box 1875
Peoria, IL 61656-1875
phone: (309) 578-9901

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorers #1 and #2 containing historical film clips, morphs from one tractor model to another, Kuwaiti fires being extinguished.

Chicago Children's Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
Navy Pier
700 East Grand Ave., #127
Chicago, IL 60611
phone: (312) 527-1000

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing timelapse footage showing construction of the new Chicago Trump building.

Children's Discovery Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
101 E. Beaufort
Normal, IL 61761
phone: (309) 433-3444

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing a visual tour of the recycling process called "Oh Rubbish."

National Great Rivers Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
Melvin Price Locks and Dams
Hwy 143 at Locks & Dam Way
East Alton, Illinois 62024
(888) 899-2602

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer - Five monitor system allowing single dial visitor control of time scales ranging from daily cycles to geologic time.

Indiana State Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
650 W. Washington St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
phone: (317) 232-1637

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing a short animation: Erosion Over Geological Time.

National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium (Permanent Installation: Public)
Third Street Ice Harbor, P.O. Box 266
Dubuque, IA 52004-0266
phone: (800) 226-3369

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing flipbook and panorama stills of Mississippi River history.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorers #2, #3, #4, and #5 containing many-state Mississippi River point-of-view flyovers shot from a helicopter.

Maryland Science Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
601 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
phone: (410) 685-5225

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing animation of dinosaurs and continental drift.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 containing medical footage such as x-ray video of a cyclist, endoscopic footage of someone swallowing.

Boston Children's Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
300 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210
phone: (617) 426-8855

• Wind Pipes, an interactive "Fountain of Air" for the museum's "AirPlay" exhibit.

Boston Museum of Science (Permanent Installation: Public)
Central Wharf
Boston, MA 02110
phone: (617) 973-5200

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing "Big Dig" Multi-Billion Dollar Boston Highway Development Project.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 containing computer-generated flyovers of exotic terrains.
• Macroscopic Disk Drive, a hands-on exhibit showing how computer disks record and read data
• High Definition Spin Browser™ Video Explorers #3 and #4 containing Body Imaging: Using CT scan data, travel the Carotid Artery, view a Virtual Colonoscopy, and more.
  

Discovery Museums (Permanent Installation: Public)
177 Main St.
Acton, MA 01720
phone: (978) 264-4200

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing information about, and images of, space weather. Created in collaboration with MIT's Haystack Observatory.

EcoTarium (Permanent Installation: Public)
222 Harrington Way
Worcester, MA 01604
phone: (508) 929-2700

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1, Live Capture and review — camera aimed at tank containing starfish, snails, and other forms of sea life.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2, showing the lifecycle of the treehole mosquito.

MIT (Permanent Installation: Public)
Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center
77 Mass Ave, MA 02139
phone: (617) 452-3690

• Hanging Athletic Figures Atrium Sculpture.

New England Aquarium (Permanent Installation: Public)
Central Wharf
Boston, MA 02110
phone: (617) 973-5200

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing tides in Plum Island salt marsh and in salt marsh tank, clam digging, crab eating, osprey diving to catch flounder, tides in Boston Harbor.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing Gulf of Maine content, such as whales, lobsters, and more.

Tufts University
Office of Undergraduate Admissions and touring unit
Bendetson Hall
Medford, MA 02155
phone: (617) 627-3170

• High Definition Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing Tufts educational offerings and international presence.
• Laptop Spin Browser™ Video Explorer, used by Tufts President and others in presentations (same content as above).
  

Detroit Science Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
5020 John R Street
Detroit, MI 48202
phone: (313) 577-8400

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing doves, roller coaster, balloons popping, explosions, avalanches, snake eating frog, and more.

Farmington Community Library (Permanent Installation: Public)
32737 West 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
phone: 248-848-4301

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse footage of birds ruffling their feathers, point-of-view nature tours, sports, flowers blooming, and more.

Health Exploration Station (Permanent Installation: Public)
5305 East Huron Drive
P.O. Box 995
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-9736
phone: (734) 398-7518

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing high-speed crash-test video.

Minnesota Children's Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
10 W. 7th St.
St. Paul, MN 55102
phone: (651) 225-6000/6001 (-6000 recording, -6001 staffed)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer allowing visitors to take simulated bus tour composed of stills taken along the actual bus route, in conjunction with a moving-indicator street map. (Expected install Q1 2008.)

Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation (Permanent Installation: Public)
755 East Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89119-7363
phone: (702) 794-5151

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorers #1 and #2 containing atomic blast and testing footage.

Bradbury Science Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
15th and Central Streets
Los Alamos, NM 87544
phone: (505) 667-4444

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing nuclear blast testing - underground, atmospheric, underwater.

National Atomic Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
1905 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
phone: (505) 245-2137

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing nuclear blast testing - underground, atmospheric, underwater.

Albany Pine Bush Preserve Discovery Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
195 New Karner Rd.
Albany, NY 12205
phone: (518) 456-0655

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse nature footage including the pine bush fire cycle, lupine, Karner blue butterfly, and more.
• Interactive coin drop donation box/artwork.

International Robotics Showroom (By Appointment Only; Potential Clients Only)
611 Broadway, Suite 422
New York, NY 10012
phone: (212) 982-8001
email: iriny@aol.com

• Living Logo™ Choreographed Iron Dust, "Trump" Design.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing very diverse content.

New York Hall of Science (Permanent Installation: Public)
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
phone: (718) 699-0005

• Interactive Electric Power Grid, simulating the August 2003 power outage.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 with 2x5 array of buttons, allowing visitors to compare flocking behavior across animal species.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 with subset of content of above.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #3 with content portraying the importance of water in our world.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #4 containing views of and from the Huygens probe launched from the Cassini spacecraft.
  

Wild Center / Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
(Permanent Installation: Public)
45 Museum Drive
Tupper Lake, NY 12986
phone: (518) 359-7800

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse nature content, timelapse footage of the museum building construction, point-of-view helicopter footage flying down the Hudson River, and more.
  

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science (Permanent Installation: Public)
433 Murray Avenue
Durham, NC 27704
(919) 220-5429

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer, high-speed camera live capture and review of visitor-controlled crash test dummies impacting a barrier. (Expected install Q1 2008.)

COSI Columbus - The Center Of Science and Industry (Permanent Installation: Public)
333 West Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
phone: (614) 228-COSI (2674)

• Aerovertica™ Visitor-Controlled Flying Propellers™.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing time-lapse of COSI building being constructed (in the "City View" Learning Center).
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 containing doves, roller coaster, balloons popping, explosions, avalanches, snake eating frog, and more (the "I/O" Learning Center) - (1999-2003).

COSI Toledo - The Center Of Science and Industry (Permanent Installation: Public)
1 Discovery Way
Toledo, OH 43604
phone: (419) 255-2674

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer from Ford Motor Company containing: cars racing, cars crashing, cars being assembled, crash tests, historical footage.

Great Lakes Science Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
601 Erieside Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44114
phone: (216) 694-2000

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing cranio-facial CT scan data.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 Live weather capture over the Great Lakes with HD camera, eventually spanning back in time a full year. (Expected install early 2008.)

Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
22 South Williams Street
Dayton, OH 45407
phone: (937) 425-0008

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing history of flight footage, including crash testing and point-of-view clips.

National Inventors Hall of Fame (Permanent Installation: Public)
221 South Broadway
Akron, OH 44308
phone: (330) 762-4463

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).
• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.

Richland Academy (Permanent Installations: Public)
75 N. Walnut St.
Mansfield, OH 44902
phone: (877) 522-8224

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing tour of Mansfield, dance class, muffin and bacon cooking, TechnoFrolics promo tape, time lapse of nature.

OMSI - Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
1945 SE Water Avenue
Portland, OR 97214-3354
phone: (503) 797-4577

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing timelapse photography of diverse subjects, ranging from cloud motion to flowers blooming to shadows moving across a cityscape. (Part of animation exhibit.)

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts (Permanent Installation: Public)
222 Market St.
Harrisburg, PA 17101
phone: (717) 221-8201

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).

Witte Museum (Permanent Installation: Public)
3801 Broadway
San Antonio, Texas 78209
phone: (210) 357-1900

• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.

Montshire Museum of Science (Permanent Installation: Public)
One Montshire Rd.
PO Box 770
Norwich, VT 05055
phone: (802) 649-2200

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse content including hummingbird in flight, water balloon popping, clouds and lightning, 1 millisecond Bunchberry flower opening, and more.

Newseum (Permanent Installation: Public)
1101 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209
phone: (703) 284-3544

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing ten hours of 1960's US newsreel footage.

Virginia Air and Space Center (Permanent Installation: Public)
600 Settlers Landing Road
Hampton, VA 23669-4033
phone: (757) 727-0900

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer. High speed camera live capture and review of crater formed by visitor-shot projectile.

access/Ability touring exhibit, sponsored by the Boston Children's Museum (Touring to Museums)

• HandCycle, an application of Spin Browser™ technology to enable visitors to pedal through a Nevada state park. Click for upcoming exhibit locations.

Bose ElectroForce Systems Group (Touring to Bose trade and consumer events worldwide)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer showing the history of the Bose ESG, their products in the medical and engineered products arena, and more. Content produced from high-res stills, video clips, and custom animations.

Circles Exhibit (Touring to Museums)
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 and #2, HD content showing the importance and prevalence of circles and circular motion in life. Video clips include twirling dancers, pottery wheels, lathes in action, water vortices, and more.

EcoTarium (Touring to Museums)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer. From tree to house—how raw lumber becomes your home.

Ford Motor Company (Touring to Auto Shows)

• Living Logo™ Interactive & Choreographed Iron Dust, "FORD" Design.

Franklin Institute (Touring to Museums)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing footage showing the development of a fetus in the womb.

Garden of Gizmos, Sprouts section (Touring to Museums)
Clifford Wagner Science Interactives

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer—special slider-operated version. Allows visitors to see a garden grow, in parallel with the hair of the exhibit creator.

A leading beer company, 1994- (Touring NASCAR shows)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing NASCAR race and crash footage.

Nano Zooms (Touring around the USA: Museums, Universities, Theme Parks, etc.)
Cornell University and the Ithaca Sciencenter.

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorers #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, allowing visitors to zoom in and out on a monarch butterfly, oyster, computer chip, and dragonfly. Zooms stitched together using still images from optical, SEM, and TEM imaging devices.

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science (Touring to Museums)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorers #1 and #2 allowing visitors to explore the process of folding—from umbrellas to flowers, maps to napkins.

Photron (Touring to Photron trade events)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse footage shot by Photron high speed cameras..

Space Science Institute (Touring to Museums)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorers #1 and #2 containing High Definition star formation animations, and High Definition stills of space microbes.

Zula Patrol (Touring to Museums)
COSI

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing weather footage showing the earth's water cycle. Wild accompanying soundtrack...

International

Agrium (Touring to schools in the Calgary, Canada area)

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing corn—from seed to jellybean, and diverse nature content.

Museu De Cie'ncias e Tecnologia, Pôrto Alegre (Permanent Installation: Public)

• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.

Science World, British Columbia (Permanent Installation: Public)
1455 Quebec Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6A 3Z7
Canada
phone: (604) 443-7440

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing all kinds of cool motion sequences, ranging from a chameleon eating a grasshopper, to point-of-view footage out a hang glider.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 containing Medical Imaging: Sneeze, x-ray video of swallowing and playing a violin, GI journey, fetus developing, ear aging, and more.

Vancouver Aquarium , British Columbia (Permanent Installation: Public)
845 Avison Way
Vancouver, B.C. V6G 3E2
Canada
phone: (604) 659-3474

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 showing archer fish snagging their prey.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 showing cuttlefish doing the same thing.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #3, live capture and review of starfish tank.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #4 about frogs. (Expected install Q1 2008.)

The Camassa Touch (Intermediary - contact for installation location(s).)
21 Kilkis Ave
Latsia Industrial Zone
Nicosia 2234
phone: [357] (22) 489808

• Power Distribution Exhibit, allows visitors to create their own power through hand-crank generators and route it to loads ranging from a radio to spinning police lights.
  
• Dancing Banners™ Choreographed Fabric.

SATCO, the Scientific and Technical Consulting Office, Cairo (Intermediary Agents)

• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.

phaeno gGmbH - die experimentierlandschaft
Willy-Brandt-Platz 1
Wolfsburg
Germany D-38440
phone    [49] (53 61) 89 01 00

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).

Museo Interactivo Tropo Mágico (Permanent Installation: Public)
Visítanos en avenida Central 750
Residencial Poniente Zapopan
Jalisco
phone [52] 3030-0030

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).

VILVITE (Permanent Installation: Public)
Thormøhlensgate 51
5006 Bergen
Norway
[47] 55 59 45 00

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer core software used in interactive jump exhibit developed by Creative Machines and The Exhibit Guys.

Singapore Science Centre (Permanent Installation: Public)
15 Science Centre Road
Singapore
609081
phone: [65] 64252 500

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse physics, nature, and engineering phenomena.

Technorama, museum of interactive science-art (Permanent Installation: Public)
Technoramastrasse 1
CH-8404
Winterthur
Switzerland
phone: [41] (52) 2430505

• Dancing Trees™ Choreographed Iron Dust Artwork (original configuration and four songs).
• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (Permanent Installation: Public)
Park Row
Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
phone: [44] 20 8858 4422

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing four 12 hour time lapse sequences showing tidal cycles.

The Ironbridge Gorge Museums (Permanent Installation: Public)
Coach Road
Coalbrookdale, Shropshire TF8 7DQ
phone: [44] 1952 432166

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer containing diverse content ranging from car crash testing to bridges collapsing due to wind-induced vibration to NASA launches.

W5 - WhoWhatWhereWhenWhy (Permanent Installation: Public)
At Odyssey
2 Queen's Quay
Belfast, Ireland BT3 9QQ
phone: [353] 28 9046 7700

• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #1 containing diverse content ranging from a cricket match to flowers blooming to a buffalo grazing.
• Spin Browser™ Video Explorer #2 containing cloud formations from Cumulus to Cirrus and beyond.
• Hotplate™ Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.