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The
ACM Exhibits for Sales page lists exhibits that children's
museums may purchase.
See
what's available by searching exhibits by name. Questions
regarding a particular exhibit
should be addressed to the contact person in each listing.
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| Title: |
The
Big Bank |
| Date Posted: |
6/9/2009 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Betty
Brinn Children's Museum |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$22,000
plus inbound shipping for complete exhibit. Exhibit components
may be purchased separately. |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
300 sq.
ft. required for complete exhibit. Components can be arranged
in a variety of configurations. |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Hands-on
Financial Literacy |
| Description: |
The Big Bank exhibit can provide your visitors with important
hands-on learning opportunities focused on financial literacy.
Children can role-play as the bank teller, manager, loan officer
or customer as they explore activities that highlight earning,
saving, spending and philanthropy. The Big Bank teaches basic
math and problem-solving skills and helps kids become money
smart. Target Audience: Educational activities are designed
for children ages 3 - 8.
Own the entire exhibit (at a discounted price) or purchase
one or more of The Big Bank's individual hands-on components.
Add the Money Minders educational program kit to complement
the exhibit or purchase for use as a stand-alone financial
literacy program.
- The Bank: ATM station: $3,500 Using the bank's touch-screen
ATM, children learn about deposits and withdrawals, and
how consumers manage their accounts using technology.
- Banker's Desk & Teller's Window: $6,500 At the banker's
desk, children can participate in guided activities where
they learn about accounts, loans and other bank services
using a pretend computer, phone, calendar, calculator and
a variety of resource materials. Pretend checking or savings
deposit slips are available at the walk-up teller's window!
- Drive-Up Window: $4,600 Children can be the teller or
the customer as they use the pull-out and sliding drawers
to exchange pretend money.
- Drive-Up Car: $2,200 A kid-sized car adds to the role-play
experience at the bank's drive-up window.
- Fun Finance Stations: Wall-Mounted stations offer interactive
games and challenges where children can practice identifying
currency and learn important lessons about managing personal
finances.
- Cravings & Savings: $2,000 A spin of the wheel directs
children to add their savings or give into their cravings
in a fun activity that demonstrates how regular savings
habits can quickly pay off.
- Sharing: $2,000 Using a fun interactive maze, children
learn about philanthropy as they choose the charities they
would like to support.
- Every Last Cent: $2,000 Children get to flex their spending
power in a money-stacking game that requires them to make
choices about expenditures.
- Money Memory: $2,000 A colorful flip puzzle encourages
children to identify and match U.S. coin and paper currency.
- Money Minders Educational Program Kit: $10,000 Expand
the learning experience of the exhibit or introduce a successful
stand-alone facilitated financial literacy program for children
age 4 and older by offering Money Minders. The Money Minders
kit includes a detailed curriculum guide, eight portable
hands-on financial literacy games and a variety of fun props
that teach kids about smart money practices.
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Jennifer
Sarnowski |
| Phone: |
414-390-KIDS
(5437), ext. 239 |
| Email: |
exhibits@bbcmkids.org |
| Exhibit Web site: |
www.bbcmkids.org/salesrentals/bigbank |
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| Title: |
Body Basics
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| Date Posted: |
9/1/2010 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
A.C.
Gilbert's Discovery Village |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$15,000 |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
500
sq. ft. |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Magic
School Bus Goes Inside the Human Body |
| Description: |
Follow the Magic School Bus characters, Ms. Frizzle and
Digestive Dan, on an adventure through the human body! Body
Basics is full of interactive components that teach
complex body functions in a simple and hands-on manner.
Body Basics will introduce visitors to a wide range
of body processes and functions from head to toe.
The bright graphics and interactive components of the exhibit
feature a lighted spine that hangs from the ceiling, a crawl-through
stomach and a water-play digestive tract. Giant body parts,
models, murals and large two-dimensional graphic panels
give visitors big and small the sensation of walking through
a giant pop-up book of "My Body". Currently displayed
in approximately 500 square feet floor space.
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Kim
Baldwin |
| Phone: |
503-371-3631 |
| Email: |
info@acgilbert.org |
| Exhibit Web
site: |
www.acgilbert.org |
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| Title: |
Data
Earth |
| Date Posted: |
7/10/2009 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
The
Museum of Life and Science |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
7/10/2009 |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
see below |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Life
science/Physics |
| Description: |
The Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC is selling some
of their exhibits from their very popular Data Earth collection.
All three exhibits were developed in-house by the Museum of
Life and Science's Exhibits Staff and designed by Jeff Kennedy
Associates, Inc. The exhibits are in great condition and would
be a wonderful addition to any Museum's collection.
Earth in 3-D Stereoscopes (x2)
- Description: The exhibit consists of stereo glasses and
a light box mounted to a laminated tabletop. The rear of
the table is supported by a laminated pedestal concealing
the power cord to the floor. The front of the table is supported
by two Zero truss legs and floor mounted pedestals. There
are two complete tables provided.
- Visitor Activity: The visitor can look through stereo
glasses to see photos taken by airplane of assorted terrain
or weather patterns
- For more information:
http://www.ncmls.org/exhibits/stereoscope
Projection Map - "Flattening the Earth"
- Description: The exhibit consists of an acrylic globe
mounted in a Plexiglas case on a laminated tabletop. The
rear of the table is supported by a laminated pedestal concealing
the power cord to the floor. The front of the table is supported
by two Zero truss legs and floor pedestals.
- Visitor Activity: A clear acrylic sphere with the outlines
of the continents illuminated by a bright point-source light
from inside. The image of the continental outline is projected
onto a flat screen which is viewed by the visitor. By pushing
a button, the visitor can move the light from the center
of the sphere to the far edge of the sphere. When the button
is pushed again, it moves back to the center (i.e. pushbutton
initiates the movement and is inoperative until the movement
is complete). The two positions of the light correspond
to two different types of map projection. The lamp illumination
is controlled by a second momentary pushbutton (i.e. the
lamp is "on" only when the button is depressed).
- For more information: http://www.ncmls.org/exhibits/flattening-the-earth
Light Sound
- Description: The exhibit equipment for sale includes all
sound, light, and converting equipment needed to operate
the exhibit. Buyer would need to mount the equipment into
an enclosed kiosk, preferably one with a clear front so
visitors can see the equipment in action.
- Visitor Activity: Using an off the shelf CD player and
a small converter, a modulated flashlight beam carries music
on the light beams. When the flashlight is directed at a
light sensor at the opposite end of the table, the music
is heard in a connected speaker.
- For more information: http://lifeandscience.org/exhibits/light-sound
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Shawntel
Landavazo |
| Phone: |
919-220-5429
ext. 373 |
| Email: |
shawntell@ncmls.org |
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| Title: |
Gear
Up! |
| Date Posted: |
8/21/2009 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Children's
Discovery Museum of San Jose |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
Starts
at $2,350 |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
Varies |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Interactivity
math and science |
| Description: |
Gear
Up! Components encourage the hands-on exploration of multi-level
math skills for visitors of all ages. From basic number recognition
to learning about more advanced gear ratios, designing a block
buster gear exhibit is easy with our magnetic, finger-freindly,
interactive, colorful and stackable gears. Gear Up! Is a modern
spin on a classic design. Purchasing the components allows you
to desing the ultimate gear experience for your museum. |
| Contact Name/Title: |
Patricia
Guerrero Knight |
| Phone: |
408-298-5437
ext.206 |
| Email: |
pguerrero@cdm.org |
| Exhibit Web site: |
http://www.cdm.org/p/viewPage.asp?mlid=211 |
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| Title: |
Memory |
| Date Posted: |
4/1/2010 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Exploratorium |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$125,000 |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
3,000
sq. ft. |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Hands-On
Science and Culture, Memory |
| Description: |
We
continually relive and reshape past experience, which in turn
shapes the way we perceive and understand the world and ourselves.
Memory is intensely personal, intensely powerful. For each
of us as individuals, our memories establish where we've been,
who we are. They are the threads that connect our childhood
selves with the adults we have become. When we're young and
don't have as much to remember, we take our memories for granted.
As our memories grow, and as we age, they are something we
fear losing. Memory is a new kind of exhibition, an experiment
that uses science and art from a variety of social and cultural
perspectives to help us understand ourselves.
Memory includes interactive displays for all ages that
demonstrate how and why some memories intensify while others
are forgotten. With a dozen hands-on activities, visitors
learn how people remember what they hear, see, touch, and
smell, and how different kinds of memories are stored or
lost.
The Memory exhibition approaches the subject from biological,
cognitive, personal, and cultural perspectives. The exhibition's
38 exhibit elements are organized in eight sections:
- Forgetting
- Shared Memory
- Remembering Without Thinking
- Remembering What's Meaningful
- Personal Memory
- Faces
- The Senses
- The Brain
Rental Possibility - call for more information.
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Sam
Dean |
| Phone: |
415-353-0442 |
| Email: |
sdean@exploratorium.edu |
| Exhibit Web
site: |
http://exs.exploratorium.edu/services/rentals/memory/ |
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| Title: |
Navigation:
Finding Your Way |
| Date Posted: |
4/1/2010 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Exploratorium |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$120,000 |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
4,000
sq. ft. |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Hands-On
Science and Culture, Navigation |
| Description: |
We
are all navigators, yet rarely do we stop to consider just
what it takes to find our way across a room without bumping
into furniture, or across a city without getting lost. The
solutions to these most basic problems of navigation are crucial
to our survival, and a closer look at how we negotiate familiar
and unknown territories reveals a rich array of techniques
and cultural approaches.
Navigation explores the diversity and ingenuity of human
wayfinding: it is an investigation of the problem-solving
activities of people on the move. Originally created in
conjunction with the Columbian Quincentennial, this celebration
of navigation has enjoyed several years touring various
museums throughout the United States. A dynamic, 4,000 sq.
ft. exhibition, it captures the richness and variety of
human navigation through 17 new interactive exhibits, cultural
and historical maps, a reconfigurable maze, and video footage
of three non-western cultures' wayfinding traditions.
Take an odyssey tour of five areas of navigation: Getting
Lost, Sensing Your Way, Navigating By The Stars, Navigating
With Tools, and Maps. Each section addresses a range of
topics in human navigation, such as orientation, intuitive
wayfinding, celestial navigation, navigational technology,
and mapmaking techniques.
Rental Possibility - call for more information.
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Sam
Dean |
| Phone: |
415-353-0442 |
| Email: |
sdean@exploratorium.edu |
| Exhibit Web
site: |
http://exs.exploratorium.edu/services/rentals/navigation/ |
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| Title: |
Pinscreen
Components |
| Date Posted: |
8/21/2009 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Children's
Discovery Museum of San Jose |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
Starts
at $6,200 |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
Minimum
of 4 sq. ft. |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Interactive
art and math |
| Description: |
A
Pinscreen exhibit is a tactile, interactive art piece that
allows visitors to explore their creativity. It can also be
designed to help demonstrate the idea behind 'pixels per square
inch.' CDM sells only the components. The final design is
up to you! |
| Contact Name/Title: |
Patricia
Guerrero Knight |
| Phone: |
408-298-5437
ext.206 |
| Email: |
pguerrero@cdm.org |
| Exhibit Web
site: |
http://www.cdm.org/p/viewPage.asp?mlid=126 |
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| Title: |
Ready Vet Go!
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| Date Posted: |
6/10/2009 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
The
Children's Museum of Denver |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$25,000 for Exhibit Purchase, $8,000 for Exhibit Plans
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| Size (in square
feet) : |
360
sq ft suggested – Modular design can easily accommodate
a variety of spaces, ranging from 250 sq ft to 500 sq ft plus |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Ready
Vet Go! is an exciting MOBILE and MODULAR exhibit that can
transform a variety of spaces, large and small, into a “veterinary
clinic” full of play-based learning opportunities. |
| Description: |
Ready Vet Go! is an exciting MOBILE and MODULAR exhibit
that can transform a variety of spaces, large and small, into
a “veterinary clinic” full of play-based learning
opportunities. Designed to teach children about the responsibilities
of pet ownership and proper pet care, Ready Vet Go!
offers children and caregivers the opportunity to take on
the role of veterinarian, groomer, trainer and pet owner.
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Jon Handwork |
| Phone: |
303-561-0135 |
| Email: |
jonh@cmdenver.org
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| Exhibit Web site: |
www.mychildsmuseum.org
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| Title: |
Stuffee® |
| Date Posted: |
3/18/2010 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Children's
Museum of La Crosse |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$3,000 |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Human
Body/Nutrition |
| Description: |
Educate
your guests and community about nutrition, digestion and other
human body topics with STUFFEE®. This 9' STUFFEE®
has been loved by visitors to the Children's Museum of LaCrosse
over the years and is now looking for a new place to delight
and educate people. His zipper opens to reveal fascinating
soft-sculptured organs. |
| Contact Name/Title: |
Peggy
Rice |
| Phone: |
608-784-2652,
ext.225 |
| Email: |
peggy@funmuseum.org |
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| Title: |
Super
Service Center |
| Date Posted: |
6/28/2010 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Betty
Brinn Children's Museum |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$39,500,
plus in-bound shipping |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
The
exhibit requires a minimum of 130 square feet and can be arranged
in a variety of configurations. |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Interactive,
kids-sized car |
| Description: |
Little mechanics will love working in the Super Service
Center! Children can step into a pretend auto shop equipped
with all the tools they need to perform maintenance on a
kid-sized car mounted on a lift. The exhibit's hands-on
activities encourage cooperative play and stimulate the
development of fundamental skills in young children. Children
will have fun sorting, matching and problem-solving as they
select tools, replace parts and fill work orders. Working
with other mechanics encourages positive social skills,
and the exhibit's activities help enhance fine and gross
motor skills.
The Service Center:
- The Shop: A mural of a real auto shop and an ambient
soundtrack help to set the scene for busy little workers.
- Work Wear: Work shirts and caps enhance the role-play
experience by allowing kids to dress the part.
- Service Desk: Children plan and manage their workday,
using a changeable wall clock, work order clipboards,
a telephone and a magnetic daily calendar. Area signage
encourages children to solve time-related word problems.
The Car:
- Under the Hood: Kids will trigger a variety of sound
effects as they change the air filter, add fluids (glug,
glug!) and check the battery and oil.
- The Creeper: The car is mounted on a lift so children
can slide underneath on a creeper to change the "rusty"
muffler and tailpipe.
- Tire Rotation: Children can change two of the car's
tires using lug nuts and a realistic-sounding pneumatic
drill
- License to Drive: A variety of colorful personalized
license plates can be changed on both the front and the
back of the car.
The Tools:
- Tool Chest: Tools of the trade, including wrenches,
screwdrivers, spare parts and replacement "fluids,"
are tucked in a kid-friendly tool chest that also serves
as a matching/sorting activity.
- Gear Table: Children can manipulate colorful moving
magnetic gears, stimulating reasoning and creativity.
- Tire Wall: Children will enjoy climbing in and out of
a set of real tires that border the exhibit.
Target Audience: Educational activities are designed for
children ages 3 - 8.
Electrical Requirements: The exhibit's car component requires
a 110V electrical source which can be brought in from below
or above.
Purchase Includes:
- Bilingual signage (English/Spanish) that helps adults
understand how children learn through play
- A detailed installation manual, plus on-going technical
phone support
- A one-year limited warranty
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Jennifer
Sarnowski |
| Phone: |
414-390-5437,
ext. 239 |
| Email: |
exhibits@bbcmkids.org |
| Exhibit Web
site: |
http://www.bbcmkids.org/salesrentals/superservice.php |
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| Title: |
Zany
Rainy Forest |
| Date Posted: |
1/12/2010 |
| Producing Museum/Organization: |
Kids
Discovery Museum |
| Price
of Exhibit Sale: |
$40,000 |
| Size (in square
feet) : |
1,200
- 2,000 sq. ft. |
| Type
of Exhibit: |
Tropical
and temperate rain forest. |
| Description: |
The Zany Rainy Forest is a dynamic hands-on exhibit that
brings the magic of the tropical and temperate rain forest
to life! This exhibit represents rain forests from Africa,
Asia, South America, and the U.S.
Exhibit highlights include: a 10-foot snake for children
to crawl through, an African hut, a discovery tent and murals
covered with exotic birds and animals. A giant eagle's nest
to climb into, and a baby elephant, perfect for children
to climb aboard to imagine their jungle exploration are
also included in this dynamic exhibit.
The exhibit can successfully stand by itself or complement
an existing one. Teacher guides & curriculum materials
are available; science & math integration is endless!
The Zany Rainy Forest is ideal for children ages six and
younger. The exhibit is available now. Photos available
on request.
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| Contact Name/Title: |
Susan
Sivitz |
| Phone: |
206.855.4650 |
| Email: |
susan@kidimu.org |
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