It is hard to imagine the modern world without IT technologies. From waking up to going to bed, we are surrounded by technology. Education is no exception. And where can you study with interest apart from a school? Of course, in museums! Learn more at dallas-future.
In this article, we will tour Dallas museums and pay attention to interactive technologies that have completely changed museums and attitudes toward them.
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Perhaps out of all the city’s museums, IT technologies are used the most in this one.
Since 2012, organizing exhibitions, the museum has been using the STEM approach (visualization of natural and scientific phenomena for a better understanding of processes).
The museum is located in a futuristic building. It is named in honor of the family that allocated a large sum of money for its creation. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is located near the downtown business center.
The museum has five floors and 11 permanent exhibitions. There are also temporary ones.
One of them is the Expanding Universe Hall. Thanks to the huge screens, visitors can visit any celestial body in the solar system and look closely at its surface. Technologies also allow visitors to see the Sun from a dangerously close distance. On a special interactive screen, you can compare the sizes of the Sun and other stars in the universe. There is also a telescope, which will show you the galaxies and the solar system.
There is also the T. Boone Pickens Life Then and Now Hall. There, you can see the skeletons of dinosaurs that lived on the territory of Texas and animals of the Ice Age. This exhibition also allows visitors to use IT technologies for better perception. Thus, you can play a game with a friend on special screens. The characters are dinosaurs that you can choose yourself.
In the Rees-Jones Foundation Dynamic Earth Hall, you can experience an earthquake of different forces, from 1, which is barely felt, to 12, when it is impossible to walk.
In the Sports Hall, you can use a camera that captures 1000 frames per second to create your own slow motion and see how the body moves.
There is also a running track where you can compete in speed with a cheetah, a tyrannosaurus or an athlete.
The Rose Hall of Birds. In this part of the museum, you can feel like an eagle, control the flight and hunt with the help of technology. The bird’s flight is controlled by human movements and projected onto the screen.
In the Being Human Hall, you can actually see your voice. You, or several people at once, just need to sing or speak into a microphone. Then the voice will be projected on the screen.
In the Texas Instruments Engineering and Innovation Hall, visitors can literally touch science, carrying out experiments.
The Discovering Life Hall will help you understand why some animal species sometimes become extinct. With the help of an interactive screen, you can experiment, changing the living conditions for animals and plants. Source: perotmuseum.org/.
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is the best place for Dallas students who want to understand different natural phenomena.
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
This museum is located on the sixth floor of the former School Book Depository. It tells about the assassination and legacy of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.
The museum recreates the place and time when President Kennedy was assassinated. There, you can get acquainted with the life of Kennedy, learn the details of his assassination and see the documents and reports of the investigators.
Let’s consider how IT technologies are used in this museum. There is a screen near the window from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired at the president. It shows the scene of the assassination reproduced with the help of computer graphics.
Source: https://www.jfk.org/.
The Frontiers of Flight Museum
This museum has been operating for 35 years. It presents various aircraft, from the Wright Brothers’ first plane to the modern Boeing 737, which literally sticks out of the museum. The plane’s cockpit is indoors and the tail is outside. Visitors can enter the inside cockpit, walk through the entire plane and go outside.
The museum presents originals and prototypes of aircraft from the entire history of aircraft construction. It isn’t equipped with too many IT technologies. However, there is a room where you can watch a film about the most modern aircraft.
Source: flightmuseum.com/explore/galleries-displays/.
Information technologies facilitate not only our lives but also learning. They make it easier to understand the surrounding processes. Understood means mastered.
