Exhibit Development & Design

Poster

P21 - Making It Real: Climate Change in Traveling Exhibitions

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How do we make powerful stories of climate change that are happening in unfamiliar and inaccessible places real and relevant for museum visitors? In this poster session, we will share exhibit design strategies and lessons learned from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s traveling exhibition, “Under the Arctic: Digging into Permafrost.” The exhibition explores the impact of thawing permafrost on Arctic landscapes, Alaskan communities, and our global climate by using immersive exhibit experiences, real objects, and first-hand stories.

Learning Objectives:

• List effective strategies for communicating climate change in exhibit-based experiences.
• Compare the roles of real and replicated objects and places in museum visitor learning.
• Describe benefits and drawbacks of the role of emotion in communicating information in exhibitions.

Poster Presenter(s)

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  Victoria Coats

  Research, Development & Advancement Manager
  Oregon Museum of Science & Industry

Poster Presenter / Co-Author(s)

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  Suzanne Perin

  Post-doctoral Researcher
  University of Alaska Fairbanks