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Opening January 18

Connections between art, science, math
and ancient history are revealed.

Art, in all its forms provides an engaging window to science, math and ancient history. Enchanted Museum: Exploring the Science of Art is an interactive exhibit that explores the connections between art, science, math and ancient history in three main areas: the Painting Gallery, the Sculpture Garden and the Rainbow Maze.

The Painting Gallery

Pigment Palette: Combine colored particles to create new colors and how cave painters, ancient Egyptians and Aztec Indians mixed everyday items to create color.

Rosette Kaleidoscope: Experiment with radial symmetry – a pattern that repeats around a
central point.

Endless Mirror:
Experiment with band symmetry – a pattern that repeats in a straight line.

Making Faces:
Discover how cultural differences affect the universal language of facial expressions.

Colorscape: Layer colored shapes to create landscapes using subtractive color mixing and the Golden Rectangle.

Drawing Station: Draw what you see, not what you know is behind the glass and learn about the concepts of creating perspective in a work of art.

Pixel Pictures: Learn how ancient mosaic techniques are used in pointillist paintings and computer screens of today.

The Sculpture Garden

Shadow Friezer: Mimic the pose of ancient sculptural friezes from other cultures and decipher messages created with body language.

Kinetic Sculpture: Uncover the principles of static and kinetic energy and learn who first created kinetic sculpture.

Air Hammer: Measure the hardness of stone and learn about the MOHS scale of 1 to 10.

Sculptural Stresses: Push, pull or twist polarized plastic models to demonstrate how structural stress is hidden in a work of sculpture.

Make A Mobile: Create balance in your own mobile using levers, weights and rulers.

Make A Mobile Move: Study equilibrium using the power of wind to make the mobile move.

Tensegrities: Examine closely this 20th Century invention, created by a sculptor, that uses tension and rigidity to create stability and strength.

The Rainbow Maze

This is a larger-than-life-size walk through labyrinth that utilizes a series of optically active experiences to take the visitor on a journey through the paradoxes of vision.

Shape of Art: Learn how the mathematic concepts of ratio and proportion have been used throughout history in both art and architecture.

Colors and the Spectrum: Observe how reflected light portrays objects in the world around us and study meanings assigned to certain colors by different cultures.

Pinhole Camera: Walk inside the camera and experience how light travels and the effect that has on what we see.

Optics and Perception: Visual effects are caused by the way our eyes process visual information. Experience the illusion created by moiré patterns throughout the maze.

 

 


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