TRAVELING ExhIbITS

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OMSI’s exhibit professionals have extensive expertise that
can only be obtained through years of daily work at a highly
c o n t i n e n ts
successful museum. Consequently, our staff is particularly
well-versed in the development of truly sustainable
exhibition programs that serve both internal and external
stakeholders, generate revenue, drive attendance, and
fulfill visitor needs.
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OUR SERVICES INCLUDE
•Traveling Exhibits
•Exhibit Component Sales
•Exhibit Development, Design
and Consulting Services
CONTACT OMSI
• 503.797.4659
• exhibitsales@omsi.edu
• travelingexhibits@omsi.edu
• www.omsi.edu
Exhibit Sales & Services
OMSI’s exhibit sales and services are allencompassing. Highly experienced exhibit
professionals take pride in producing some of
the most interactive, robust, and educationally
sound, handcrafted exhibits available. Our
services are available individually or bundled
into a full-scale, turn-key project. We work
with you at each stage to help you identify
Exhibit Sales & Services
exhibit topics, test the feasibility of your ideas,
and outline the steps necessary to turn your
ideas into reality. Whether you seek museumrelated planning and consultation, component
sales, exhibit development, design, evaluation
or fabrication assistance, or fully designed
and built custom exhibits, our museum
professionals have the skills to suit your needs.
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Exhibit Component
and Exhibition Sales
Our catalog includes hundreds of tested and proven exhibit
components, as well as numerous full exhibitions available
for replication.
New and replicated exhibits may be customized to meet your
needs, from a change in colors to match your facility’s look to
the addition of multilingual text to suit your audience.
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TABLE TOP EXHIBITS
Topics include:
affordable
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• Developed to have a low footprint and low price tag
flexible
• Have been used successfully in libraries, schools,
community events and museums
Health and wellness
Space
Brain teasers
Nanotechnology
Renewable energy
Natural science
portable
• Great as a stand-alone museum exhibit, or as
part of an outreach program
interactive
• Hands-on interactives are the name of the game
Topics
include:
Over 300
exhibits to
choose from!
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• Health and life science
• Engineering and
innovation/technology
• Energy and the
environment
• Earth and natural science
• Early childhood education
• Physics and motion
• Space and flight
• Art and science
• Math and economics
• Puzzles, critical thinking,
creative problem solving
educational
• Set to national education standards, guaranteed
to be
scientifically accurate, and
evaluated for successful
delivery of educational
messages
robust
• Built to the same
high level of quality
as our full-sized
exhibit components
Contact exhibitsales@omsi.edu. Special package
discounts, including outreach-ready exhibit packages
in custom crating, are also available.
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The R&D team works closely with advisory
groups composed of nationally recognized
experts to ensure scientific accuracy and
relevant, cutting-edge, engaging content.
“
The exhibit is fabulous. It is well-designed, colorful,
informative and hands-on, and has created a real sensation
both for our day events and night events.
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Wes Wenhardt, VP of Business Operations Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose
PLANNING
We know the challenges faced by museums as they try to
create engaging exhibits for their visitors. Before determining
the course of action, our team reviews a wide variety of
factors, including facility layout and restrictions, visitor
needs, sponsorship opportunities, topic ideas, marketing
potential, and more. The resulting plan will blend the exhibit
environment with your program needs, visitor interests,
and educational goals.
Research and DEVELOPMENT
Exhibit development
transforms
concepts and
scientific principles
into engaging,
energetic exhibits
and programs.
Our exhibit
developers have
more than 40
years of combined
experience in
conceptualizing and
producing content
for educational,
interactive exhibits.
The staff is
experienced in all
aspects of exhibit
development,
including bilingual co-development, copywriting, early
childhood education, tabletop exhibit development,
prototyping and analysis.
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DESIGN
EVALUATION
Designers ensure
that exhibits are not
only attractive and
engaging but also
educationally sound,
visitor-centric,
highly interactive,
durable, accessible,
and practical
to produce and
maintain.
Evaluators test to see that each project is educational, reliable,
user friendly, accessible, safe, interesting, and engaging. Our
evaluators work closely with the exhibit team by offering frontend, formative, remedial, and summative evaluation services.
Our studies address aspects of exhibit programs such as
educational approach, content, labels, interactivity, audience,
usability, and environmental treatments. We can
assist with research in exhibit effectiveness;
accessibility; bilingual translations; visitor
attitudes, beliefs and values; underserved
audiences; visitor expectations,
preferences, and experiences;
and more.
The team draws
from a diversity
of experience,
including industrial
design, architecture,
graphic design,
and photography.
Exhibit-related
designs include
traveling and permanent exhibits, outdoor exhibitions,
portable components, museum way-finding and signage, bus
and trailer retrofits, artifact display cases, and exhibit hall
environmental treatments.
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LARGE TRAVELING EXHIBITS
TRAVELING EXHIBITS
For more than 20 years, OMSI has built a reputation for
developing and touring excellent interactive traveling
exhibitions. We have successfully managed tours for more
than 50 exhibits to date, throughout North America and
Europe. Our exhibits range in size from 500 to 7,000 sq. ft.
NEW
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Whether you’re looking for an early childhood exhibit,
such as Animal Secrets, a popular art and science
exhibition, such as Animation, or a fun and timely
exhibit about math and economics, such as Moneyville,
OMSI has a topic and an exhibit to meet your needs
and target audience or demographic.
OMSI is the gold standard for traveling exhibits, they are the best in the country.
Mary Henderson, Director, Lafayette Science Museum, Lafayette, LA
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The feedback we get from visitors for the
exhibition has been fantastic. I know my
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kids personally
spent two hours in the
exhibit and still want to come back.
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Tanya Vomacka, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate
Relations, MOSI: Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, FL
Our artisans have over 150 years of combined
experience specifically in the production of
interactive exhibitions and, on average, 20 years
of experience in their particular specialty.
Size: 6,000 sq. ft.
Price: $100,000 for 3 months
Available: Beginning JUNE 2015
Design Zone is...
• Relevant, educational, and marketable
FABRICATION
The fabrication team contributes to an exhibit’s design by
evaluating each component for functional feasibility, durability,
and budget compliance.
Through its 25,000 sq. ft. production facility, our skilled artisans
create more than 15,000 sq. ft. of exhibitions every year,
including more than 100 individual
exhibits. In addition to
finished work, the shop
also regularly fabricates
prototype exhibits to
test with visitors prior
to final production. The
team includes
cabinetmakers,
engineers,
CAD and CNC
technicians,
software
developers,
electronics
specialists,
and welders.
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• An experiential approach to algebraic thinking as a tool to
create and invent everything from hip-hop to skate parks.
Visitors can design their own experience, and in some cases,
email their creations to family and friends.
• A means
to promote
innovation
and build
math literacy
by directly
connecting
mathematical
concepts to reallife experiences.
• A substantial professional development program for host
museums, designed to leave a lasting impact on education
and interpretive staff.
• A nontraditional way for students ages 10-14 and their
families to discover that math isn’t just a subject in school—
it’s one of the coolest creative tools we have to design
and invent.
DESIGN ZONE INCLUDES
THREE THEMATIC AREAS:
ART
Enter the Videogame Design Lab, the Architecture Studio,
and the Digital Design zones to find out how creative problem
solvers utilize key mathematical concepts to develop new
visual ideas and turn them into reality.
MUSIC
Step into the DJ Recording Studio, On Stage!, and Dance
Party zones and hear the math in the music. Learn
about the relationships between length and pitch in
musical instruments, ratios and rhythms, and visual
representations of sound.
ACTION
In the Theme Park and Action Sports zones you’ll
discover the math and physics behind anything
that moves.
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LARGE TRAVELING EXHIBITS
“
Great interactives in this exhibit allowed our visitors
to do actual animation. So many hands-on exhibits
rely on analogs, but this exhibit provides easy to use
tools to do the real thing.
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This was one of the most well received exhibits
we’ve hosted in years. It appealed to families,
school groups, even staff! We saw visitors of all
ages spending hours working on the puzzles.
”
Brian Mancuso, Director, Exhibits, The Health Museum,
Houston, TX
Lisa Marchisio, Exhibit Operations Manager, Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA
Size: 6,000 -7,000 sq. ft.
Price: $100,000 for 3 months
Available: Beginning OCTOBER 2012
Size: 6000 sq. ft.
Price: $100,000 for 3 months
Available: Beginning FEBRUARY 2013
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Animation...
Mindbender Mansion is...
• Teaches the process of animation by bringing together
art, math, science, and technology incorporating colorful,
larger-than life graphics of popular characters from
Cartoon Network.
• An eclectic place full of brainteasers and interactive
challenges guaranteed to test brainpower and problem
solving skills. A fun and quirky mansion where visitors are
invited to join the Mindbender Society by gathering hidden
clues and secret passwords scattered throughout various
thematic rooms.
• Delights families and children as they experiment with their
own storyboarding, character design, drawing techniques,
movement,
timing, filming, sound,
and
editing
• Is a
powerful and effective tool for
engaging and teaching all
ages about math
and science
concepts like
perception,
illusion, persistence
of vision, geometry,
and measurement,
making it ideal for school
groups (grades K-8).
Animation inCLUDEs six
thematic areas:
• History: Visitors can try using a praxinoscope to spin
three-dimensional figures into a single animation, and can
“crank” out animations with an old-fashioned mutoscope.
• Animation Studio: They’ll learn about the
process of animation, story creation, and
animator techniques and tools.
• A combination of tabletop brainteasers visitors can solve
on their own and full-body group challenges that require
collaboration and teamwork.
• A wonderful world of math, science, and technology where
visitors must identify patterns, use logical reasoning, and look
at the problems from different perspectives.
• Art in Motion: With help from the
characters of Foster’s Home for Imaginary
Friends, visitors will discover why art
and math are important allies when it
comes to creating characters, motion,
and change.
Mindbender Mansion
includes five group
challenges:
• Feeding Frenzy: Kitchen mayhem is guaranteed in a
race to beat the clock by filling T.V. dinner trays with five kinds
of food on a fast-moving conveyer belt.
• Animation Laboratory: Dexter’s
Laboratory teaches the science and technology that
make animation possible, such as the technique of
“squash and stretch” and time-lapse videos.
• Flying Machine: Solid teamwork is a must in order to
maneuver a mechanical “flying machine” around a large game
board, hitting six targets in sequence before time is up.
• Sound and Stage: Discover the principles
of sound and phonetics with the characters from
Chowder, Ben 10: Alien Force, and Kids Next Door.
• Spelling Fever: Hopscotch meets Scrabble® in this
race to spell correct words within a limited amount of time by
hopping on letter squares that light up.
• Cartoon Museum: Take a seat in an
intimate theater setting and view clips of popular
animations while learning the secrets behind their
production, and examine important artifacts from classic
animations such as Scooby-Doo, The Powerpuff Girls, and
The Flintstones.
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• Move and Match: Dinner time was never this much fun!
Slide your dining room chairs on wheels into a correct pattern
before the clock runs out.
• Amazing Maze: In this version of the classic steel ball
labyrinth game, visitors must work together to tilt a table
in different directions, guiding a ball into six holes as quickly
as possible.
TM and ©2011 Cartoon Network. All rights reserved.
Size: 6,000 sq. ft. • Price: $100,000 for 3
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months • Available: Beginning JUNE 2012
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MID-SIZE TRAVELING EXHIBITS
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SMALL TRAVELING EXHIBITS
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The Museum saw an increase of 25% in attendance during Moneyville’s 3 month run.
Moneyville was so popular with our visitors
that the following summer we had several
inquiries about where it was!
”
Joy Summar-Smith, Associate Director, Dr. Pepper Museum, Waco,TX
Brent Tharp, Director, Georgia Southern University Museum, Statesboro, GA
Size: 2,000 sq. ft.
Price: $30,000 for 3 months
Available: Beginning June 2012
Size: 700 sq. ft.
Price: $7,500 for 3 months
Available: Beginning FEBRUARY 2013
Money isn’t just about dollars and cents. The ancient Aztecs used chocolate for
money, and Yap Islanders used 500-lb. stones! So what is money and how does
it work? Families, adults, and children can explore the history, science, math, and
economics behind money in Moneyville. This highly interactive traveling exhibition
uses the familiar and fascinating subject of money to build math skills and
promote economic literacy in a fun, immersive, urban environment.
MONEYOPOLIS is a registered
trademark of Ernst & Young.
The MONEYVILLE trademark
is used under license.
Participants discover economic concepts, math
skills, and problem-solving strategies that can
help them in their real-life decision making.
Moneyville meets national math and economics
standards, making it ideal for school groups
(grades K-8).
“
Animal Secrets was a fun and educational
exhibition for our visitors, from toddlers to
adults. OMSI’s service was great!
”
Brianna Cutts, Director of Exhibitions, Bay Area Discovery Museum,
Sausalito, CA
Size: 2,500 sq. ft.
Price: $30,000 for 3 months
Available: Beginning October 2013
Where does a chipmunk sleep? What does an eagle feed its young?
How do mother bats find their babies in a cave? Families will learn
the answers to these questions and more as they explore the hidden
habitats and secret lives of forest animals.
Play with animals in a realistic habitat at the Stream. Observe the
sights and sounds of the Meadow. Pretend to be an eagle, chipmunk,
and raccoon in the Woods. Explore
the Cave and investigate specimens
from the natural world in the
Naturalists’ Tent.
Animal Secrets is specially designed
for children ages 3-8, preschool to 3rd
grade school groups, and has English
and Spanish text panels.
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I am most impressed with the variety of innovative,
interactive ways that content is delivered for an exhibit of this size. Visitors of all ages enjoyed them and
returned several times to individual stations and we
all know how important repetition is to learning.
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Satellites have dramatically changed the way we
study our planet. A View from Space, a bilingual
(English/Spanish) exhibit gives museum visitors
a chance to see the world from a satellite’s
perspective. Visitors will be able to track a
hurricane from space, send a
satellite spinning into orbit
around a model Earth,
study astonishing
images of our planet
captured by
NASA’s Earth
Observing
System, and
more.
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The Duluth Children’s Museum was able to host this exhibit for a six month
window which is longer than most exhibits can hold the interest of the visitor. Our members never became tired of seeing this exhibit on our floor and
repeat visitation increased during the course of the exhibit’s venue.
Rich Jaworski, Vice President of Operations, Programs & Collections
Duluth Children’s Museum, Duluth, MN
Size: 1,000 sq. ft.
Price: $9,500 for 3 months
Available: Beginning june 2013
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Children ages 2-7 create, play, and
learn as they explore the concepts
of construction, motion, and simple
machines. Visitors can hand-operate a
pulley or conveyer belt to explore cause
and effect, and
turn the wheels of
a gantry crane to
transport cargo.
The
openended nature of the
materials and activities allows creativity to flourish. Little
Builders is also a learning laboratory for parents, teachers,
and other care providers to observe, understand, and
interact with their little builders.
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SMALL TRAVELING EXHIBITS
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AN INDUSTRY LEADER IN EXPERTISE AND SUSTAINABILITY
More than 7,000 visitors of all ages enjoyed
and were challenged by Brain Teasers – a
sought-after addition to our annual Summer
Sundays outreach program.
”
Jeanne DAscoli, Manager for Community Relations, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Size: 500 sq. ft.
Price: $4,800 for 3 months
Available: Beginning FEBRUARY 2013
From mathematical conundrums to
mind-boggling block puzzles, handson problem solving is the theme of
this popular traveling exhibition, for
individuals of all ages. Each puzzle
stimulates active participation,
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requiring creative thinking and
innovative strategies to solve the
challenges. Visitors to this exhibit
have been known to return time and
time again in hopes of solving all of
these fun and educational puzzles!
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After visiting “Eat Well, Play Well,” you walk
away with a better understanding of the importance of healthy eating habits. This exhibit
is very well received by visitors of all ages. A
must have for all museums, big or small.
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SEPA
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
is an independent educational resource center
dedicated to improving the public’s understanding
of science and technology. Founded in 1944, OMSI operates a 219,000 sq. ft. facility that includes five
exhibit halls, seven science labs, a planetarium, an
OMNIMAX giant-screen theater, the USS Blueback
submarine, and an early childhood education area.
OMSI leads the industry in promoting the use of
sustainable and environmentally friendly materials
and processes. We were the first institution to
develop a LEED-inspired Green Exhibit Checklist,
which uses eight broad categories such as End-Life
Assessment, use of Low-Emitting Materials, and
Recycled Content to accurately measure an exhibit’s
environmental friendliness.
We have developed and produced thousands of
interactive science exhibits for more than 65 years.
We are internationally known for the exceptionally
high levels of quality, innovation, interactivity, and
educational integrity of the exhibits we develop,
design, and build. We have been providing premium
quality traveling exhibits for over 25 years, and
offering exhibit sales and exhibit consulting services
for over 20. Consequently, wehave regular interaction
with a wide range of museums, visitor’s centers,
aquariums, interpretive centers, libraries, government
agencies, and other organizations throughout the
world. We receive constant feedback on the needs,
trends, and challenges facing museums and science
centers today, placing our team’s collective fingers
on the pulse of the industry.
SCIENCE EDUCATION
PARTNERSHIP AWARD
Supported by the National Center for Research Resources, a part of the National Institutes of Health
Darlene Griffith, Collections Manager, Tunica Museum, Tunica, MS
AVAILABLE IN 3 SIZES
Size: 1,500 sq. ft.
A Price: $18,000 (21 Exhibit components)
Available: Beginning February 2013
B
Size: 800 sq. ft.
Price: $7,500 (9 Exhibit components)
Available: Beginning February 2013
C
Size: 500 sq. ft.
Price: $5,500 (6 Exhibit components)
Available: Beginning june 2012
Visitors explore nutrition and fitness in Eat Well,
Play Well, a new bilingual (English / Spanish)
exhibit featuring fun, hands-on components.
Nutrition and fitness education come
together to encourage all-around healthy
living for visitors of all ages! Families, children,
and school groups explore fun and interesting
ways to be active—and the science of making
healthy food choices.
Eat Well, Play Well is educational,
entertaining, and empowering. Visitors
will realize that healthy choices are within
everyone’s reach!
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C l ien t s I nc l u d e :
United States
American Lung Association
Arkansas Discovery Network
Austin Children’s Museum, Austin, TX
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Dayton, OH
Butterfly House, St. Louis, MO
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA
CH2MHill
Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, IL
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
Connecticut Science Center, Hartford, CT
COSI Columbus, Columbus, OH
Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO
Detroit Zoo, Detroit, MI
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Ft. Worth Museum of Science & History, Ft. Worth, TX
Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, OH
Health Adventure, Asheville, NC
Imagination Station, Toledo, OH
Intel Corporation
Jack Rouse Associates
Kirby Science Discovery Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Lafayette Natural History Museum, Lafayette, LA
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ
Louisville Science Center, Louisville, KY
MacGillivray Freeman Films
Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD
Miami Science Museum, Miami, FL
Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL
Museum of Health & Medical Science, Houston, TX
Museum of Science, Boston, MA
NASA, Cape Canaveral, FL
NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab, CA
New York Botanical Gardens
New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
Omaha Children’s Museum, Omaha, NE
Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, OR
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA
Port of Los Angeles, CA
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Space Center Houston, Houston, TX
Strategic Air & Space Museum, Omaha, NE
Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, VA
St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO
Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA
Texas Forestry Museum, Lufkin, TX
United States Department of Agriculture
Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton, VA
Virginia Zoo, Norfolk, VA
International
BEA Bern Expo, Bern, Switzerland
Calgary Science Centre, Calgary, Canada
Children’s Museum of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
El Centro de Ciencias y Arte (Explora), Panama City, Panama
Event Marketing Services GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Hancock Museum, Newcastle, UK
Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong, PRC
John Janzen Nature Centre, Edmonton, Canada
Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, UK
Museum Victoria (Scienceworks), Melbourne, Australia
National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK
National Science & Technology Museum, Taiwan, ROC
Nordstar GmbH, Rostock, Germany
Oil Sands Interpretive Centre, Fort McMurray, Canada
Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada
Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico
Petrosains, The Discovery Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PT. Para Bandung Propertindo, Jakarta, Indonesia
Pusat Sains Negara Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Science Museum of London, London, UK
Science North, Sudbury, Canada
Science World, Vancouver, Canada
Shanghai Energy Resource Center, Shanghai, PRC
SM Science Discovery Center, Manila, Philippines
Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science & Technology Center, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Tampere Museums, Tampere, Finland
Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
TELUS World of Science, Calgary, Canada
The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, Canada
Trompo Mágico Museo Interactivo, Zapopan, Mexico
United Exhibits Group, Copenhagen, Denmark
Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum, Kitchener, Canada
W5, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Exhibit Sales and Traveling Exhibits
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