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Lars Broman, Strömstad Academy, [email protected]
Science Circus:
Outreach Program and
Travelling Interactive
Exhibition
Lars Broman
Presentation at Kyiv and Kharkov
Planetariums 22-25 April 2013
Lars Broman, Strömstad Academy, [email protected]
Science Circus from Falun
My earliest experience of a Science Circus type activity was
in the fall of 1989, when Broman Planetarium inaugurated its
travelling exhibition Astronomia at Västra Frölunda Cultural
House in Göteborg.
Astronomia consisted of a Starlab Planetarium, exhibits, and
several interactive astronomical models. These included
- a rotating earth with tiny sundials, lit from one side,
- a quatro stagioni exhibit with four earth globes lit from a
central sun,
- a sunlit moon orbiting the visitor's head, and
- a scale model solar system, built in the scale 1:10 billion
and stretching far outside the Cultural House - the model
even included a tomato-sized model of Proxima Centauri
at National Institute of Silicon Technology in Islamabad,
Pakistan.
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Astronomia was set up att several Swedish museums until it
in 1992 finally broke up: the Starlab continued as Broman
Planetarium's travelling planetarium and the exhibits and
models became the new Falun Science Center's base
exhibition.
I and my colleagues continued travelling activities both with
Starlab (now two mobile ones) and with interactive
exhibitions (Albert & Einstein from 1990, Water Laboratory
H2O(x) from 1996, Mathematical Puzzles from 1998).
It was first when we learned from Ivar Nakken’s Norwegian
Science Circus at the Nordic Planetarium Association
Conference in Göteborg 1997 that we realized that we ought
to try and put our Falun Science Center on the road.
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The idea was marketed in the Swedish region Dalarna, and
the first to hire a Science Circus was the city of Ludvika,
where we set it up in the Lingongården community hall,
adjacent to the library, for seven days in March 1998.
Monday - Friday we gave six pre-booked school shows and
one show for a general audience in Starlab. Saturday and
Sunday we gave six shows for the general public.
Outside the Starlab, we had our traveling hands-on
exhibitions Matematical Puzzles and Electrical Workshop,
some exhibits from H2O(x), our fakir chair (where you sit on
top of hundreds of nails) and a small museum
store/reception desk.
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Just one person from Falun Science Center was in charge
each day, and he spent most of the day in the planetarium,
but librarians took turn in taking care of the reception desk
and looking after the hands-on activities.
Seven daily planetarium shows was made possible by
making them only partly live.
Thus, the school show consisted of Broman Planetarium's
Journey in Space, a presentation of tonight's sky, and a
question-and-answer session.
The general audience show instead featured Broman
Planetarium's Close Encounter with Cosmos.
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Both feature programs have been used for a couple of years
in Falun Science Center's Stella Nova Planetarium, but for
this occasion they had been converted from the original
slide-and-audiotape format to VHS cassette.
We used a small Sony video projector, and it worked really
well inside the Starlab.
The normal drawback of this inexpensive projector - lack of
brilliance - was indeed an asset in the darkness of a
planetarium!
During the coming year, Science Center from Falun were
brought to some other places in Dalarna, either the whole
set-up or part of it.
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Learning and playing
in the exhibition hall
H2O(x) exhibit How
much weighs the
water in your body?
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Electrical Workshop
Mathematical Puzzles
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Family watching a star show in the
planetarium while some children wait
for their turn.
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Starlab projector seen from the south and from the north
Lars Broman, Strömstad Academy, [email protected]
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Lars Broman, Strömstad Academy, [email protected]