A Walk Through Time
Opened February 2010

Throughout the ages, different cultures have tracked time in various ways. Explore with us how these methods are connected and also unique. This interactive exhibit teaches the distinction between analogue and digital clocks, modern calendars versus those of the ancient world, and how days and weeks are tracked. Try this: have a seat in the time machine and pretend to travel to any date in the past or future. What was the world like a thousand years aog? What will it be like thousands of years from now?

Brazilian Rainforest Theater
Opened October 2008

Beware the giant anthill has you duck beneath lush foliage and enter the heart of a Brazilian Rainforest, our newest exhibit on the second floor of the Gilbert House. Gorgeous murals frame the stage and a brilliant waterfall creates the perfect backdrop for performers. A camera and TV screen allow actors to watch their performances as they happen. Costumes include animal-print capes, safari hats, and more to help visitors create open-ended adventures.

Recollections
Opened June 2008

Recollections is a colorful, dazzling projection that allows visitors to create vivid, full-size, time-delayed images of themselves. Combining computer technology, a color camera, a large screen projector, and a special retro-reflective screen, artist/software designer Ed Tannenbaum has created an environment that allows the user to explore time and motion in beautiful colors. Over 256 colors can be displayed on the screen at one time as visitors move and become part of a work of art. Photo by Ron Cooper.

Undersea Cave of Frozen Shadows
Opened June 2008

This is the new and improved Shadow Room! Relocated to the Gilbert House and redesigned with marine murals and glowing jellyfish suspended from the ceiling, the Shadow Room remains a favorite exhibit. Press the button, walk over to the wall, pose, and, flash! your shadow remains on the wall. The material on the wall of our Shadow Room absorbs light energy and re-emits it for several seconds. Where you made a shadow, less light hits the wall and less light is re-emitted. Your shadow remains after you move away. Also, take a dive in the USS Gilbert Submarine Station with a peak-a-boo view into the Shadow Room.

Immerse yourself in the culture of today's Chinese children with this exhibit that features a photojournal wall of two Chinese girls, who were adopted into families from the United States from an orphanage in Beijing. With a pavilion, a character writing station, traditional costumes for dress-up, a popular Chinese game, and artifacts and music of the region, the exhibit provides many opportunities for exploration. A photomural depicting the Great Wall of China, a whimsical painted mural of pandas in a bamboo forest, and a mural of the countryside in China adorn the room's walls.