The Development of a Series of Exhibits on the Perception ofSound

旧金山的探索博物馆将开发一个新的系列，包括30多个永久性的声音、听觉和音乐主题的展览单元。研究人员、教育工作者、音乐家和艺术家将在这一过程中合作，开发利用探索馆得到国际认可的互动技术直接参与科学和技术的展览。其中一些单元将使用声学和声学方面的新技术，并将反映由于使用这些技术而产生的最新生理学研究成果。新的展品，加上翻新和改装的现有音响展品，并配以新的图形和说明性文字，将构成探索馆内关于声音感知、听力和音乐的新主题区域。每年参观博物馆的游客将超过50万人，受益于教师教育活动的数千名教师将使用它们。此外，展览单位将通过展览“食谱”、讲习班和出售展览复制品在其他博物馆复制；该项目将从私人来源获得20多万美元的支助。

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.