Posts Tagged ‘Museums’

Klamath County Museum Diverse Woodlands Exhibit

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Diverse Woodlands

Diverse Woodlands

Crawl Through Log

Crawl Through Log

Klamath Basin history comes alive at the Klamath County Museum in Oregon. The former armory was built in 1932 and features art deco elements. It was a popular venue for major musicians and groups in the 1940′s and 50′s. The displays include Indian artifacts and dioramas, taxidermy birds, relics from pioneer days and classic photographs of life a century-ago in Klamath County.

Recently NatureMaker installed eight trees at the museum for the “Forests for Everyone – Klamath’s Living Legacy,” the theme of a major new exhibit that just opened in March of 2010. With the help of NatureMaker Steel Art Trees, the new 1,700 square foot exhibit explores the diverse woodlands that are found across Klamath County’s rugged landscape. Included in the exhibit are five Ponderosa Pine trees of various heights and widths, one Cedar and Aspen tree and one crawl-through Douglas Fir hollow log which gives youngsters a chance to discover what animals can be found in downed trees.  Check out photos of the exhibit here.

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Children’s Museum of Naples

Monday, March 29th, 2010

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Opening next year, the Children’s Museum of Naples will be “an exciting, inspiring environment where children and their families play, learn and dream together.” The 30,000-square-foot museum will feature ten spectacularly designed, child-scaled exhibits to invite sensory and intellectual exploration. The heartbeat of the museum will be the Banyan Tree exhibit. NatureMaker was commissioned to design and build the 30’ tall x 45’ canopy diameter naturalistic banyan tree. The tree will also incorporate a clubhouse (an element that will be provided by outside vendors).

The main goal of the Banyan Tree exhibit is to inspire children to actively explore the environment, coordinate and challenge their bodies as they move through space, investigate sounds, smells and sights of the natural world, cooperate with other visitors as they share space, use their imaginations to play out both familiar and unfamiliar roles and experiences and engage in play patterns that facilitate invention, creativity, leadership, and cooperation.

To learn more about NatureMaker’s museum projects visit us at one of the following shows this spring:

ACM’s InterActivity – May 7, 2010, St. Paul, MN, Booth 33

AAM’s Annual Meeting & MusuemExpo – May 24-26, 2010, Los Angeles Convention Center, Booth 735

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