O.K. This one is for Dana. When I visited the Smithsonian Institute of Natural History, we saw an installation called the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, subtitled "Art, Science, Community". The exhibit featured a massive crocheted underwater world complete with facsimiles of coral reefs and not-facsimilies of garbage that might be found underwater, tangled in the reefs, like plastic six-pack rings. The colors were incredible and everywhere you looked at this "sculpture" (you could walk around it 360 degrees) you saw something fascinating--whether it was the amazing crocheted shapes or the objects that had been nestled in the fiber art.
The one drawback--I've never wanted to touch an exhibit as much as I did this one, and it was a no-touch zone. Not very interactive if you define interaction as being hands-on. But I guess maybe that rule mimics the reality of underwater life which you're not supposed to touch (or disturb) either.
I left this area of the museum with a new question, "In what ways can an exhibit be interactive?"
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