Interactive center in the Darwin Museum

If you haven't yet had a chance to visit the Darwin Museum's amazing new corner, be sure to do so. On September 1, 2014, the interactive educational center "Know Yourself - Know the World" opened here. From official reports we know that its area is only 200 square meters. In fact, as soon as you set foot on the threshold of the Center, you realize that not only the floor on which the virtual maple leaves are scattered, but all visible surfaces and even invisible space interact with you. After all, with hand gestures, you can easily rotate the planets on the huge screen, interact with the chameleon, the Center's mascot, inviting you to take a picture with it and immediately send this photo by e-mail.

Entrance to the Darwin Museum Interactive Center

List of developers and creators of interactive complexes

Whenever you move, the virtual leaves scatter in different directions

There are more than 100 such interactive complexes and stands at the Center. You can spend hours at many of them, they are so informative. The authors of the project made sure that not only children of different ages, but adults as well, would find it interesting. After all, it's never too late to learn about the world and yourself, and here it's also fun. Unfortunately, in a short news report it is impossible to tell about all the multimedia systems and devices. Let's focus on some of them.

Dozens of specialists from different organizations directly or indirectly participated in the creation of the project, the idea of which belongs to the director of the Museum, A.I. Klyukina. It's nice to know that Aqua Logo Engineering is also on the list of developers and creators of the Center's interactive complexes.

In this hall of the Center our products are located

The second hall with a transparent floor

Under the glass floor there are many decorations and layouts imitating real biotopes

One of our products is located in the first hall in full view under a large spherical screen, on which the animation of the microcosm of the living cell is projected. It is an interactive table "Assemble the Cage". In the recess of the table on the right is a set of objects of different shapes and colors, denoting different cell organelles. On the touch screen on the left you can see schematic and real, many times enlarged, images of cellular elements.

Interactive table "Assemble the cage"

Not everyone gets it right the first time

The energetic connoisseurs come to the rescue

In the middle of the table on a screen with outlines you should carefully put three-dimensional "particles" of a cell (nucleus, mitochondrion, lysosome, etc.) so that their position corresponds to the scheme given on the monitor. Thus, by playing, visually and even tactilely representing the cell structure of different organisms, children will more easily remember information that is not visible to the common eye.

Adults are also interested in understanding the structure of the cell

A little more and the cage will be assembled

It's like this

Not far from the "cage table" is our second product, the "Pulsometer". With its help, children not only learn how often the heart beats of different animals, but in just 10-15 seconds they can determine the frequency of their own heartbeat. It is enough to touch the hemispherical sensors on the wall with the palms of their hands and the monitor on the left will display a real-time cardiogram of the subject.

How fast is your heart beating? The heart rate monitor will tell you!

Palms on the sensors - and the process of measuring the pulse began

And here's the result!

And soon the heart rate indicator appears on the screen as well. Both stands attract a lot of attention from visitors, allowing them to learn something new and useful about themselves and the world.

130 per minute - pulse in cats