Terry,
The walk through biodiversity forest here at AMNH is very immersive but very one directional also. The larger exhibit mixes several elements in it, and their rest part is making a specific point about deforestation, and requires some patient observing to see everything that is going on in the three sections. It's a great teaching tool.
There's a brand new museum called MUSE in Trento, Italy that has a very modern walkthrough natural history exhibit. It has mounted specimens which are up close and not behind glass, plants represented with both 3D models and flat panels and video screens which fit seamlessly into the fore- and background with some animations and extra info. Really tight turns in it allowed for visitors to change habitats rather quickly, and audio helped simulate different environments also.
I have some pictures if you'd like - email me back individually. And ECSITE 2015 was held there, I'm sure at least a few others on here have seen it :-)
-Brian
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Brian Levine
Manager of Youth Programs
Astrophysics Educator
AMNH Education
212-313-7172
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Terry,
The rainforest exhibition at the Milwaukee Public Museum is massively immersive; the Biodiversity Hall at the American Museum of Natural History centers around a walk-through habitat of a central African rainforest (modeled after a site in the CAR); and the Chicago Academy of Sciences - Notebaert Nature Museum includes two galleries - 'Wilderness Walk' and a early learner's space - with walk-through and crawl-through habitats. All include preserved/mounted animal specimens and replica plant material.
best regards,
Kevin
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Kevin Coffee
Chicago IL
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