NAVIGATION: A Cultural and Technological Look at Finding One's Way

探索馆建议创建一个以导航为主题的多维展览。展览本身将包含大约20个新的互动展品，涉及人类定位、寻路/探索、时间在导航中的重要性、地图和导航传统等主题。除了展品，我们还将展示从其他博物馆借来的真实导航文物。我们已经确定了大约40个现有的展品，这些展品虽然不在主展览中，但将进行文本修改，以显示它们与导航主题的关系。除了文物展览和互动展品外，我们还将推出一系列讲座、主题周末和导航技术演示。在节目播出期间，我们将主持一个关于美国遭遇的研讨会，届时我们将举办一个公开论坛，讲授和讨论北美大陆文化遭遇的历史、人类学和社会后果。我们将为这次展会制作一份宣传册和一份高质量的目录。此外，我们将为这个博物馆范围内的展览创造书面的组织方式，以突出不同的导航功能和方法。我们的教育部门将发挥主导作用，为我们的游客创造更多正式的课程。在探索博物馆开放后的三年里，这场实体表演将以巡回演出的形式重现，巡回九个场馆。我们将收集我们研究人员的研究成果，并将其分发给该领域的其他人。

The Exploratorium proposes to create a multidimensional exhibition on the theme of navigation. The exhibition proper will contain approximately 20 new interactive exhibits dealing with topics of human orientation, wayfinding/exploration, the importance of time in navigation, maps and navigation traditions. Alongside the exhibits we will display real navigational artifacts borrowed from other museums. We have identified approximately 40 existing exhibits which, while not in the main show, will receive textual modification to show their relation to navigational topics. In addition to the exhibition of artifacts and interactive exhibits, we will present a series of lectures, theme weekends, and demonstrations of navigational techniques. During the run of the show we will host a Symposium On The American Encounter wherein we will hold an open forum of lectures and discussion of historical, anthropological and social consequences of cultural encounter on the North American Continent. We will produce both a brochure and a high quality catalog for this show. In addition we will create written "pathways" of organization of this museum-wide show to bring to focus different features and approaches to navigation. Our education departments will play a leading role in creating more formal programs for our visitors. The physical show will be reproduced in a travelling version to tour nine venues in the three years following its opening at the Exploratorium. We will collect the results of our researchers in a dissemination package to be made available to others in the field.