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For Exhibition Development

The University of Pennsylvania Museum (UPM) has been awarded its largest exhibition grant ever: a three-year, $1.7 million continuing grant from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative exhibition project, Survivor: The Place of Humans in the Natural World.

The first year of the award, effective January 1, 2004, is for $610,560. The continuing grant, approved on scientific and technical merit for three years and contingent on the availability of funds and the scientific progress of the project, would continue for a total of $1,675,030.

Survivor: The Place of Humans in the Natural World, is planned as a 3,000 square foot traveling exhibition--to open at UPM in 2006--guiding the visitor through an exploration of the process and consequences of human evolution in the context of its implications in daily life. The exhibition material will be presented through diverse sensory and multimedia techniques and interactive devices, including an interactive web design and a content "morphing studio."

"While the Museum has received a number of important NSF grants over the years, this is the first NSF grant for an exhibition," said Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff, Williams Director of the Museum and Principal Investigator for the high-tech, conceptual project. 

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 24, March 2, 2004

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