Årsberetning 2007 - Experimentarium

intEllECtual Capital statEmEnt 2007
the Experimentarium schedule for upcoming major special exhibitions
is as follows:
• xtreme Expedition (september 2007 – september 2008)
Developed and produced in co-operation with national museum of
natural History – naturalis, leiden and the royal belgian institute of
natural sciences.
• i spy
(october 2008 – september 2009)
Developed and produced in co-operation with technopolis, mechelen,
Flanders.
• brain gym (october 2009 – september 2010)
Developed in co-operation with industrion, Kerkrade, Holland and
universeum, gothenburg, sweden.
• senses (october 2010)
Developed and produced in co-operation with national museum of
natural History – naturalis, leiden and the royal belgian institute of
natural sciences.
• Crashbang Driving school (January 2008 – December 2008)
Developed and produced in co-operation with the Danish road safety
Council, the municipality of Herning and the tryg Foundation.
Exhibitions – exhibitions – exhibitions
refurbishment of the exhibitions has taken place at a very rapid
rate in recent years. over the past 8 years, the Experimentarium has
presented the following new exhibitions to the public:
Feb 1999 the Kid’s pavilion 22 exhibits mE
oct 1999 robots on the loose 15 exhibits sE
april 2000 Future body 38 exhibits sE
oct 2000 Dynamic Earth 61 exhibits mE
Jan 2001 get in touch with the Future 14 exhibits sE
may 2001 Communic@tion 37 exhibits sE
Dec 2001 You & me 70 exhibits mE
april 2002 Dinosaurs on the Hunt 25 exhibits sE
oct 2002 Voyage to mars 17 exhibits sE
Feb 2003 CreepyCrawly 28 exhibits sE
Jan 2004 Circus Fysikus 42 exhibits mE
oct 2004 the great sexperiment 49 exhibits sE
oct 2005 sports & spinach 28 exhibits sE
Jan 2006 Dialogue in the Dark 3 scenarios sE
sept 2006 t.rex – the Killer Question 16 exhibits sE
sept. 2007 xtreme Expedition 25 exhibits sE
*mE (main exhibition), sE (special exhibition)
The Experimentarium’s commercial activities continue in a
positive direction:
7 april 2006 saw the opening of the “CreepyCrawly” exhibition in le
Vaisseau in strasbourg, France.
the exhibition closed in march 2007.
24 may 2007 saw the opening of CreepyCrawly at xploorit in Kolding,
Denmark, and the exhibition can be seen at the former library building
until 12 may 2008.
the brain closed in January 2007 at millenaris science park in
budapest, Hungary.
the exhibition opened at the Departmental science Forum in
Villeneuve d’ascq, France on 24 march 2007 and closed on 15 august
2007 with more than 130,000 visitors.
the exhibition was adapted to greek/turkish and installed at next
generation in athens from 1 December 2007 and from there it is
scheduled to open in istanbul and ankara in turkey as well as in
nicosia in Cyprus.
sports & spinach was installed at xploorit in Kolding, Denmark in
october 2007, where it remained until being loaned to the international
Centre for life trust in newcastle, England. it opened there on 4 april
2008.
after it closes in september 2008 the exhibition will be adapted to
polish/german/English and will open in Warsaw, poland in november
2008.
in June 2007 Experimentarium took part in the ECsitE 2007 annual
conference in lisbon, portugal.
although no confirmed orders resulted, a number of contacts were
established and these are still being followed up.
Cooperation across continents
From time to time, exhibitions and information are exchanged between
institutions and between the comparable European science centres in
particular. this is the process that brought the CreepyCrawly exhibition
to le Vaisseau in strasbourg and the popular brain exhibition to
millenaris science park in budapest as well as to greece and turkey.
Experimentarium Executive Director asger Høeg hopes that the
cooperation between science centres on other continents will also be
expanded in future. Exciting developments are taking place in natural
science museums in usa and Japan, among other countries. asger
Høeg was the chairman of ECsitE, the European Collaborative for
science industry and technology Exhibitions, from 2004 to 2007. today,
asger Høeg is past-president of the international organization and will
attend its world congress in June 2008 in toronto, Canada.
this position carries the additional benefit of invitations to participate
in the governing bodies of other countries. these include asger
Høeg’s membership in the norway science Centre Committee (norges
Vitensenterutvalg) which has designed a strategy for the development
of norway’s seven science centres. the Committee secures operating
funds for the science centres and assures the basic foundation
necessary to attract substantial investment capital to fund expansion
programmes and new exhibitions. over the last four years, over noK
300 million has been invested in the development of the norwegian
science centres. there is a strong need for a similar organisation in
Denmark to secure the strong development of two or three national
science centres.