Crossroads: Getting Started

Awaken your curiosity with open-ended exploration.

Easy-to-engage perception, time, and motion exhibits allow for open-ended exploration and introduce visitors to phenomena that can be explored throughout the museum.

A Drop to Drink

Getting a drink of water would be very different if you were the size of a doll.

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A Sip of Conflict

Would you, could you, will you drink from a water fountain fashioned from an actual—but unused—toilet? Porcelain is just porcelain . . . right?

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All Eyes on Me

Situate yourself at just the right place in space in front of this parabolic mirror array and you’ll see dozens of your own eyeballs peering back at you.

Where: Crossroads: Getting Started

Tilt a spinning bicycle wheel while you’re sitting in a swivel chair and—surprise—you’ll start spinning in circles, too. You can also witness the same phenomenon here by hanging a spinning wheel from its axle.

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Café Wall Illusion

These tiles aren't really crooked–they just look that way.

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Chaotic Pendulum

When you set these pendulums swinging, the motion of each one affects the others.

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Color Your Judgment

Your expectations may change your experience.

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Coupled Pendulums

Start one of these two pendulums swinging and soon you’ll see the other pendulum start swinging, too. Keep watching and you’ll see the two pendulums take turns, alternately swinging energetically and coming to a near standstill.

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