A Speedy Family Sunday
at Bishop Museum June 3:
Admission
reduced to $3 for Hawai‘i Residents and
Military
Family Sunday is coming back to Bishop Museum June 3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is offered at a great savings—only $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents with ID and Active/Retired Military and their families with Military ID. (Other patrons pay regular admission.) Get your summer off to a quick start by visiting the new traveling exhibit, SPEED, on view in Castle Memorial Building through September 3, 2007 .
Family Sundays at Bishop Museum are an all-day affair with a little something for everybody. Rides, food booths, and plenty of activities to keep the kids having fun are the hallmark of the day. Bring Tutu and Auntie with you—they’ll enjoy the special exhibitions Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawai‘i featuring exquisite artifacts and objects from the collections of the ali’i, and the Kahili Room with feather standards and portraits of important figures from the Hawaiian monarchy.
The Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center with its erupting volcano, origins tunnel, and interactive displays about indigenous and endemic plants and animals will be open all day. Take in a planetarium show…dance the hula…learn about global warming through NOAA’s new Science on a Sphere and the new interactive exhibit in the Cooke Rotunda. You won’t have time to be bored!
But if you want it fast, faster, fastest—then head straight to the new traveling exhibit SPEED, created by COSI Columbus. SPEED investigates how we achieve speed, what going fast means, and how fast is too fast.
How quickly (or slowly) do you type a page, run around the block, or drive to work? Everything that moves has speed, or rate of movement. (Specifically, speed is the ratio of distance covered to time taken by the moving object. Who knew that?) Even a tree has speed (it moves as it grows), and so does a feather floating to the ground. Something so fundamental is certainly worth exploring. From light speed to instantaneous deceleration, SPEED has it all covered.
PUSH!: This section of the new exhibit examines the sources of speed. Find out how bobsleds, powered by human legs and gravity, obtain amazingly high accelerations. Build a roller coaster to explore the relationships among height, acceleration, and velocity. Measure your own ability to produce horsepower by pedaling a stationary bicycle.
GO!: What is speed, and how do we achieve it? In this section of the exhibit, explore the mathematical relations that govern motion, and discover some physical features that enhance or retard speed. You can trace the evolution of Indy 500 car designs, then build your own racer out of LEGO[R] parts and test its performance against others. Use a computer to design a completely new machine from various engines, wheels, and body types. Can you create the fastest vehicle ever?
ZOOM!: There’s fast, and then there’s FAST! Just how quickly do sound waves move, and what exactly is a sonic boom? And why is the speed of light called the ultimate barrier? Use mirrors, a 564-foot-long tube, flashing green lights, and other hands-on components to discover some of the strange things that happen at extremely high speeds.
DRAG!: A body in motion tends to stay in motion, right? Then why do things slow down? Learn about impediments to speed. Compete with others to move a vehicle across a slippery surface in the shortest amount of time. Since air behaves like a fluid, you can use a “turbulence tank” to observe how different shapes move through air. Which shapes create the smoothest (most efficient) flow?
STOP!: The most dangerous speed is 0 mph. Insert a penny into a stream of high-velocity wind; after it smashes against the wall, take a look at the effects of instantaneous deceleration. Examine video footage of speed-induced crashes to detect where things went wrong, and hear race car drivers tell us what we all want to know: How does it feel to hit a wall?
Packed with hands-on components and interactive media, SPEED draws inspiration from the worlds of sport, entertainment, and cutting-edge research, featuring people who use speed to test their own abilities or the limits of technology. It is an exhibit not to be missed…no matter how quickly you are moving through the Museum.
SPEED was created with support from the National Science Foundation and in cooperation with the Science Museum Exhibit Collaborative. It will be on exhibit at Bishop Museum from June 2 through September 3, 2007 . This exhibition in sponsored, in part, by Horizon Lines. For more information about SPEED, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
For more information about Family Sunday at Bishop Museum, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
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