Museums

Imagineering an Interactive Experience

Old news, but I just got back from Chicago, where I finally learned about CSI: The Experience (via its ubiquitous billboards and bus stop ads). This barf-tastic-looking exhibition, on view right now at Chicago’s venerable Museum of Science and Technology is an interactive space where daddy’s little career prosecutors “can play the role of crime scene investigator, learning scientific principles and real investigative techniques as you try to solve a crime scene mystery”. Sponsored by Diet Pepsi, the exhibition was designed by Bob Weis Design Island, the firm led by the dude who brought us The Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular!

Not to be a geezer about this, but didn’t we invent theme parks for things like this and the other Back to the Future: The Rides?

Not to mention the whole training-of-young-people-to-think-the-world-is-full-of-serial-killers thing and the promotion-of-the-unquestioning-veneration-of-law-enforcement thing.

Tags: barftastic, corporate sponsorship, hall of shame, imagineering