I have a talk I give with each exhibit.
Each exhibit describes family life, politics and religion.
In particular, each exhibit should bring the symbol to "life" – both figuratively and literally.
Each exhibit panel poses a question students struggled with, such as: should the US judge the quality of the refugees it admits, and on what basis?
Placards explain each exhibit, trained docents answer questions and visitors can pay an extra $5 for adult and youth audio tours.
But much of what he said — like too much of what is on the computer-screen explanations accompanying each exhibit — was over my math-challenged head.
He said the friction between the sciences and the arts opens a valuable dialogue, with each exhibit becoming a hook for a conversation.
Each exhibit in Untold Stories is flanked by a card on which the owner describes their relationship with the object that they have lent, that moment of piercing desire when they knew they simply had to have it.
Redesigned by Edward Durell Stone, the display area featured stepped ramps surrounding a central rotunda, and visitors were led along a preordained route past each exhibit, artifact, diorama and whirligig.
Having a separate corporate sponsor for each exhibit — the $125,000 for the wolves, for instance, came from Wachovia — is one reason for its success, County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. said.
They will be given headsets made by Sennheiser, a high-end audio company, which play music programmed for each exhibit, as well as sound for videos; the device is guided by wires beneath the carpet that detect a visitor's presence.
