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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.
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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.
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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.
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America West
Arena (US Airways Center), 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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Iowa |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MIT (Permanent Installation: Public)
Zesiger Sports and
Fitness Center
77 Mass Ave, MA 02139
phone: (617) 452-3690
- Hanging Athletic Figures Atrium Sculpture.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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).
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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).
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Witte Museum
(Permanent Installation: Public)
3801 Broadway
San Antonio, Texas 78209
phone: (210) 357-1900
- Hotplate Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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EcoTarium (Touring to Museums)
- Spin Browser Video Explorer. From
tree to househow raw lumber becomes your home.
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Ford Motor Company (Touring
to Auto Shows)
- Living Logo Interactive & Choreographed
Iron Dust, "FORD" Design.
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Franklin Institute (Touring
to Museums)
- Spin Browser Video Explorer containing footage showing the development of a fetus in the womb.
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Garden of Gizmos, Sprouts section (Touring to Museums)
Clifford Wagner
Science Interactives
- Spin Browser Video Explorerspecial
slider-operated version. Allows visitors to see a garden
grow, in parallel with the hair of the exhibit creator.
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A leading beer company, 1994- (Touring NASCAR shows)
- Spin Browser Video Explorer containing
NASCAR race and crash footage.
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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.
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North Carolina Museum of
Life and Science (Touring to Museums)
- Spin Browser Video Explorers #1 and #2 allowing
visitors to explore the process of foldingfrom umbrellas
to flowers, maps to napkins.
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Photron (Touring to Photron trade events)
- Spin Browser Video Explorer containing
diverse footage shot by Photron high speed cameras..
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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.
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Zula Patrol (Touring to Museums)
COSI
- Spin Browser Video Explorer containing weather footage showing the earth's water cycle. Wild accompanying soundtrack...
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Agrium (Touring
to schools in the Calgary, Canada area)
- Spin Browser Video Explorer containing
cornfrom seed to jellybean, and diverse nature content.
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Museu De Cie'ncias e Tecnologia, Pôrto Alegre (Permanent Installation: Public)
- Hotplate Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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Egypt |
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SATCO, the Scientific and Technical Consulting Office,
Cairo (Intermediary Agents)
- Hotplate Magnetic Field Experimentation Stations.
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Germany |
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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).
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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).
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Norway |
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VILVITE (Permanent Installation: Public)
Thormøhlensgate 51
5006 Bergen
Norway
[47] 55 59 45 00
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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