Places of Invention Exhibition Project

由美国国家科学基金会非正式科学教育计划资助的史密森学会发明与创新研究中心（美国国家历史博物馆）在其成功的巡回展览和网站“游戏中的发明”的基础上，正在与史密森学会在全国各地的分支机构合作开发“发明之地”（POI）。主要成果包括在NMAH举办一个3500平方英尺的永久性展览，以及一个高度互动的网站，该网站专注于实践创造性技能的培养，并说明地方和社会协作如何塑造创造性过程。POI展览的特色是一个互动的“发明小镇”区域和五个关于从19世纪中叶到现在的发明“热点”的故事，每个故事都提供与特定的“21世纪技能”以及发明、科学和工程的社会、心理和空间维度相关的实践体验。该项目旨在建立一种新的模式，让国家博物馆博物馆的参观者、网站用户、勒梅尔森中心的工作人员以及全国各地史密森尼联盟博物馆的合作伙伴共同创作展览内容。展览和网站的设计将具有相互联系的特点，使博物馆的参观者和来自全国各地的人们可以加入他们家乡的创造性活动的当地故事，分享他们自己的创造性设计，并就创造性过程进行对话。

Building on their successful traveling exhibition and Web site, "Invention at Play," funded by the NSF Informal Science Education Program, the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation (National Museum of American History) in collaboration with Smithsonian Affiliates around the country is developing "Places of Invention" (POI). Major deliverables include a 3,500 square-foot permanent exhibition at NMAH and a highly interactive Web site that focus on practicing inventive skill-building and illustrating the ways that place and social collaboration shape the creative process. The POI exhibition features an interactive Invent Town area and five stories about "hot spots" of invention from the mid-19th century to the present, each providing hands-on experiences that relate to particular "21st Century skills" and to the social, psychological, and spatial dimensions of invention, science, and engineering. The project intends to establish a new model for the co-creation of exhibition content among NMAH visitors, Web site users, Lemelson Center staff, and partnering Smithsonian Affiliate museums around the country. The exhibition and Web site will be designed with inter-linking features that allow museum visitors and people from around the country to add local stories of creative activities in their home towns, share their own inventive designs, and dialog with each other about the inventive process.