Germany: Invisible Worlds – Hands-on Exhibition Invites Visitors to Discover the Unseen at Reiss-Engelhorn Museum Network
Photos by REM/Maria Schumann & NorthernLight
The Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim have recently launched a hands-on exhibition entitled “Invisible Worlds”, which uses interactive experiments to make things that are normally invisible to the human eye visible and tangible. The experiments are housed in eight different pavilions, each with its own theme: “Origin”, “Life”, “Waves”, “Thoughts”, “Secret”, “Earth”, “Brain” and “Cosmos”.
Among other things, sounds or even ideas can be made visible. In the “Secret” pavilion, for example, fingerprints become visible under black light, in the “Brain” pavilion several optical black and white illusions are installed. Visitors learn how a bat finds its way in complete darkness or how the brain works. They see how tiny particles dissolve in the air, what fossil creatures once looked like and how continents migrate.
The target group of the hands-on exhibition, which was designed by the Dutch creative agency NorthernLight and realized in cooperation with Bruns (engineering) and YiPP (digital experiences) are children of reading age between six and 14 years with their families, who can slip into the role of researchers and discover what nature and mankind have produced to make the invisible visible. For younger children, there are selected hands-on activities outside the themed pavilions. (eap)
