By Meghan Packer Posted November 2, 2009 Voters Will Decide On Natural Science Center Bond “Greensboro, NC — When voters head to the polls Tuesday, they’ll have a chance to vote for more than a mayor and city council members. They can also choose whether to support a $20 million bond referedum for the Natural Science Center.”
Follow up to an Open Letter
Photo and project posted to Make Projects by Sean Michael Ragan By Mark Walhimer Bangkok, Thailand On Monday I posted an Open Letter about the creating an online database of Science Center exhibits. The more I think about the issue the more I realize that there is already an existing model; Maker Projects. I continue to believe the future of …
An Open Letter
By Mark Walhimer Bangkok, Thailand I am enjoying the clarity distance offers. It seems that from the other side of the world I have a better view of the condition of Science Centers in the United States. I have posted my predictions 2010, 2011, 2012. Why don’t we have standards in Science Centers? In 1997 Joe Ansel lead a session …
Science Learning Center in the works
Science Learning Center in the works By: [email protected] The Spokesman Review November 2, 2009 A North Idaho nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting science and technology education plans to build a 20,000-square-foot science center in Rathdrum…
At 40, Exploratorium still leads in hands-on science
At 40, Exploratorium still leads in hands-on science By: Katie Worth Examiner November 1, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO — Legend has it that one day in the fall of 1969, Frank Oppenheimer was standing in the cavernous Palace of Fine Arts, tinkering with one of the exhibits he had invented for the hands-on science museum he had long dreamed of opening….
Bravado That Swaggers to Its Own Beat
Ron Arad, Exhibition at MOMA By ROBERTA SMITH July 31, 2009 The designer Ron Arad has always had a lot of nerve, and it ricochets around his rambunctious retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art like…
Miami Science Museum envisioned as a natural wonder
Miami Science Museum envisioned as a natural wonder Posted on Monday, 09.28.09 BY ANDRES VIGLUCCI The opening target is 2014. The new facility would make the Miami Science Museum one of the very few in the country to have both an aquarium and a …
Children’s museum site dedicated
Children’s museum site dedicated By AMANDA O’TOOLE World Correspondent Published: 9/28/2009 Tulsa World Ruth Cavins, the executive director of the Stillwater Children’s Museum, talked about how the organization has grown to serve more than just the city and …
Basic World Class
Khokana Museum, Khokana, Nepal I am in Nepal, visiting the village of Khokana a small village listed on the Unesco list of world heritage sites. The village is in the Kathmandu Valley, Kathmandu is known as the home of the Kumari Devi. I came for Durga Puja, an annual Hindu festival that celebrates worship of Hindu goddess Durga. Here …
Plans finished for US Forest Service museum
By The Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Plans for the future National Museum of Forest Service History will be unveiled in Missoula on Tuesday, and officials say construction of the $12 million facility could begin within a year. The first Forest Service district office was opened in Missoula in 1908 and eventually became the headquarters for Forest Service Region …