The Development of a Series of Exhibits on the Perception ofSound

旧金山的探索博物馆将以声音、听觉和音乐为主题，开发一系列新的30多个永久性展览单元。研究人员、教育工作者、音乐家和艺术家将在这个过程中合作，开发展览，利用探索博物馆国际公认的互动技术，直接参与科学和技术。一些单元将使用声音和声学方面的新技术，并将反映由于这些技术的使用而产生的生理学方面的最新研究成果。新的展览，通过翻新和修改现有的声音展览，并伴随着新的图形和解释性文字，将构成探索馆内声音感知、听觉和音乐的新主题区域。每年将有超过50万的参观者和数千名受益于教师教育活动的教师使用它们。此外，展览单元将通过展览“食谱”、讲习班和展览副本的销售在其他博物馆复制；该项目将从私人来源获得20多万美元的支持。

The Exploratorium in San Francisco will develop a new series of more than 30 permanent exhibit units on topics in sound, hearing, and music. Researchers, educators, musicians and artists will collaborate in the process, developing exhibits that provide direct involvement with science and technology using the interactive techniques for which the Exploratorium is internationally recognized. A number of the units will be using new technologies in sound and acoustics and will reflect recent research results in physiology resulting from their use. The new exhibits, augmented by refurbished and modified existing sound exhibits and accompanied by fresh graphics and explanatory text, will constitute a new theme area on sound perception, hearing and music within the Exploratorium. They will be used by more than 500,000 annual visitors to the museum and by the thousands of teachers that benefit from teacher education activities. In addition, exhibit units will be replicated in other museums through exhibit "cookbooks", workshops and sale of exhibit copies; the project will generate more than $200,000 in support from private sources.