Museums

Thursday, October 02, 2008 Producing for Fulldome: One Company’s Story Content for fulldome is still largely rooted in the planetarium’s traditional role of informing people about astronomy and space in an imaginative and entertaining manner....View more

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 This Is - and Isn’t - Your Grandfather’s Science Museum Update from Jonathan Katz, CEO of Cinnabar, and executive producer of 35,000 square feet of new exhibits for the Kimball Natural History Museum at the new California Academy of Sciences....View more

Friday, August 29, 2008 Giant Tortoises and Museum 2.0: Cinnabar Installation Diary We’re now completing installation of exhibits on the east side of the Kimball Museum of Natural History at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Those exhibits include “Islands of Evolution,” some 10,000 square feet of displays illustrating Academy research expeditions to Galápagos and Madagascar, while explaining key concepts about evolution and biodiversity....View more

Saturday, August 23, 2008 Museums: More news from the installation front! Here is the latest entry of Cinnabar’s installation diary, by Jonathan Katz (Executive Director) and Jeannie Lomma (project manager)...View more

Monday, August 11, 2008 Cinnabar Installation Diary: The California Academy of Sciences Here’s a report from Jonathan Katz in San Francisco, where his company, Cinnabar, is in the process of installing new exhibits at the California Academy of Sciences. This will be a weekly diary for the next several weeks (the new Academy opens Sept. 27).
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 So where are the serpents? Newsletters and missing paintings. Seems like everyone nowadays has a newsletter. The cinema I take the kids to has one. So does the local kennel. I understand the postman is working on one......View more

Friday, July 18, 2008 Museums: With the Beetles at London's Natural History Museum Fascinating story in the press this week about a tiny beetle which caused quite a stir at London's Natural History Museum as the 5 year old son of one of the museum's entomologists makes a lunchtime discovery...
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Friday, March 21, 2008 Planetariums and Science Centres. Two New Attractions Debut this Easter This Easter weekend sees the opening of two brand new attractions, The Australian Museum's permanent dinosaur exhibit and here in the UK, Britains biggest Planetarium.
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