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by Christine Bahls, Paula Park, Karen Heyman and Philip Hunter

FEATURE

Science Museums Exhibit Renewed Vigor

Stewardship and educational dialogue with the public form twin missions

The Scientist 2004, 18(6):16

Published

29 March 2004

Apreschool girl with black braids presses a finger to a disk that twists a brightly lit DNA model, transforming its ladder shape into a double helix. Her head bops from side to side in wonder as the towering DNA coils and straightens. When a bigger boy claims her place, the girl joins meandering moms and dads with their charges as they twist knobs, open flaps, and simply stare at flashing helixes and orange information boards: all a part of the museum exhibit called "Genome: The Secret of How Life Works" at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.


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