Client: The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Year: 2008
Design and Programming: Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka
For the exhibition Nature Unleashed : Inside Natural Disasters, the Field Museum of Natural History wanted an interactive exhibit to put visitors in touch with the data that scientists use to study earthquakes around the world. We developed an interactive map that shows realtime earthquake activity as well as historical patterns. The touchscreen display uses live data from international seismic sensor networks and a database of earthquakes going back over fifty years. An interactive 3D view mode shows the depth of earthquakes, making the structure of underground seismic events visible.
Exhibition Tour Schedule
| 2008 | |
| May 23 – Jan. 4, 2009 | The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois / 198,180 visitors |
| 2009 | |
| February 13 – May 3 | Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado / 186,000 visitors |
| May 23 – Jan. 3, 2010 | Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, New Jersey / 283,581 visitors |
| 2010 | |
| February 6 – May 2 | Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia / 89,000 visitors |
| May 22 – September 12 | The Durham Museum, Omaha, Nebraska / 52,322 visitors |
| 2011 | |
| February 11 – May 1 | Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada / 235,505 visitors |
| May 28 – September 5 | Connecticut Science Center, Hartford, Connecticut / 74,759 visitors |
| October 7 – January 8, 2012 | Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota/120,000 visitors |
| 2012 | |
| January 28 – May 5 | Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota / 32,789 visitors |
| May 26 – September 3 | Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland, Oregon / 175,921 visitors |
| September 28 – May 5, 2013 | Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada / 58,551 visitors |
| 2013 | |
| May 25 – December 8 | Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah / 113,828 visitors |
| December 24 – May 4, 2014 | TELUS Spark, Calgary, Alberta, Canada / 142,266 visitors |
| 2014 | |
| May 24 – September 14 | Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas / 22,642 visitors |
| Nov. 16 – August 10, 2015 | American Museum of Natural History, New York |
| 2015 | |
| October 2 – Jan. 10, 2016 | Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville, Florida / 28,264 Visitors |
| 2016 | |
| February 6 – May 1 | Pink Palace/Memphis Museums, Memphis, Tennessee |
| July 1 – February 20, 2017 | THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| 2017 | |
| March 10 – May 29 | Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| June 24 – September 4 | Adventure Science Center, Nashville, Tennessee |