EXHIBIT NEWS Imagine That Imagine That. Surprising Stories and Amazing Objects from the Burke reveals EXHIBITwww.EXHIBITMAGAZINE.com the surprising stories, complex questions, and awe-inspiring answers hidden inside objects. Visitors see a new side of the Burke, and uncover some of the most fascinating, CONTENTS | 2014 EDITION intriguing, and rare objects in its collection. The exhibit is open through October 26, 2014. Exhibit News Above: Alexander Calder’s Eagle 1 (1971) at the Olympic Sculpture Park News and updates by and for in with the Space Needle exhibit folks looming in the background. 2 Seattle Scene The Journey To Plymouth Our corner of the world is more One of our country’s most historic towns is that just rain and fleece. turning 400. The landing of the Mayflower in 1620 at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, 4 Love Of Boats began a relationship between peoples and The Center for Wooden Boats helped shape a nation. A new traveling on Lake Union is a niche in a exhibit that tells this story is being developed nautical niche by Plymouth 400, Inc. and will be toured by page 4 NRG! Exhibits. The Journey to Plymouth: Legacy of a Nation is an interactive experience 6 Pacific Science Center geared for a family audience and will debut in A look at the past and future of 2016. Contact [email protected] for more Seattle’s Pacific Science Center details.

EXHIBIT Magazine 12 Seattle Museum Map A map of some of Seattle’s Seth! Leary cultural wonders to help you find Editor in Chief / Art Director your way

Christopher Wirkkala Contributing Editor

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Photo credits and copyright holders: mary.w.e on Flickr (this page, Welcome to the third edition of EXHIBIT magazine, top); Dana Deskiewicz on Flickr (Seattle page 1); Burke Museum on produced by NRG! Exhibits. I also want to welcome Flickr (page 1); Hagerty Insurance you to Seattle. NRG! Exhibits is located just across the America’s Road: The Journey Of (Mustangs page 1); Content+Design lake, in Kirkland, and I have to say the Puget Sound (Plymouth page 1); Ricardo Martins region is a great place to live and work. We’re excited Route 66 (EMP page 2); Frank Kehren on Flickr (TMOF page 3); Dave Nakayama to have the American Alliance of annual The now-legendary Ford Mustang has been a big seller on Flickr (Some/One page 3); Ham meeting held here. I think you’ll find Seattle to be a since the original 1965 models rolled off the line in April Hock on Flickr (page 4); Beth Jusino fun destination and, since I suspect you’ll be busy with 1964. LeMay-America’s Car Museum (Tacoma, Wash.) on Flickr (page 5); University of conference activities, I hope you’ll make a return trip. and Hagerty Insurance celebrated the Mustang’s Special Collections (Children at Science Exhibition, page Please enjoy these articles that share a bit about our 50th birthday with a gathering of over a hundred of 7); Museum of History & Industry town and its museums. There’s a map on the last page the celebrated automobiles. The NRG! Exhibits silver (Luna 69, page 9) that you may find helpful. blue 1965 pony was there for the event and photo opportunity. This was its last pit stop before starting the Published by NRG! Exhibits, 10922 126th tour with America’s Road: The Journey of Route 66. The Place NE, Kirkland WA 98033 Copyright 1,500-square-foot exhibit debuts at Mercer Museum in © 2014 NRG! Exhibits. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without Seth! Leary Doylestown, Pennsylvania, this summer. Tour openings permission of the publisher. Printed in USA. Principal, NRG! Exhibits are still available. For more information, contact chris@ NRG! Exhibits’ 1965 Mustang at the 50th birthday event nrg-exhibits.com www.exhibitmagazine.com | 1 SEATTLE SCENE SEATTLE SCENE

SEATTLE SCENE

Welcome to the Emerald City. Seattle boasts some of the most interesting and diverse neighborhoods you’ll find anywhere. You can see mountains and water from nearly everywhere— and don’t spread the word, but we do have sunshine.

Like Rome and San Francisco, the city is spread out across seven hills. You’ll see the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound if you look to the west. Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountain Range lies to the east. Evergreen trees are all around. There’s no question that you’re in a natural wonderland when you visit Seattle. But our fair city is so much more. The , pictured above, is one If you appreciate artwork, try the Frye Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the of the most remarkable aviation museums in , or the . There are also over a the country. Key artifacts from its collection are displayed in the Great Gallery. Fasci- hundred commercial galleries nearby. The original science center, Pacific Science nating narratives and more artifacts can be Center, is located at the site of the 1962 World’s Fair. (See page six for more on found in the Personal Courage Wing (WWI that.) and WWII history), the Red Barn (Boeing history), and the two space galleries that There are plenty of opportunities to learn about our diverse ethnic heritage. The explore our journey beyond the atmosphere. Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Discovery Park is operated by United Indians of The original Air Force One jet, a supersonic All Tribes. The Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard honors Seattle’s Scandinavian Concorde, the first 747, and a Constellation are some of the aircraft located in the air immigrants and the Wing Luke Asian Museum in the International District focuses park. Check out www.museumofflight.org to on the culture, art, and history of Asian Pacific Americans. One of our newer learn more. museums is the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) in the Central District which explores the art, history, and culture of African Americans in the The Seattle Art Museum (we call it SAM) has Pacific Northwest. a vast location downtown featuring perma- nent galleries (several global regions, mod- If you can get out and about to the neighborhoods, be sure to explore Fremont, the ern and contemporary art, Native American galleries, and decorative arts and design) self-proclaimed Center of the Universe. Down south near the Museum of Flight is and changing exhibits. MIRÓ: THE EXPE- the Georgetown neighborhood, replete with funky bars and microbrews. There are, RIENCE OF SEEING is on exhibit through of course, all sorts of fun places downtown like the Triple Door—a dinner theater, May 26. SAM also operates the Seattle Asian lounge, and music venue. Go explore! Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill and the Olympic Sculpture Park A map of some of our museums is found at the end of this magazine. on the central Seattle waterfront. Their web- site is www.seattleartmuseum.org.

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A NICHE OF A LAKE

Tucked in the middle of Seattle and connecting Puget Sound to Lake Washington, BOATS FIRST Lake Union is barely one square mile of water surface. Still, while small, it’s anything but insignificant. You saw it in Sleepless in Seattle. It was the home of The first Boeing airplane was built on the shores of William Boeing’s first airplane factory. It’s a bustling body of water with sea planes Lake Union ninety-eight years ago and business and boats of all sizes. The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) anchors its southern boundary and nestled beside that is the Center for Wooden Boats. Long took off. The Center for Wooden Boats would like to before airplanes became part of Seattle and long before European settlers even show you what else has been afloat here. arrived here, wooden boats were part of the Pacific Northwest. A NICHE OF A MUSEUM

The Center for Wooden Boats is a museum dedicated to preserving and documenting the maritime history of the Pacific Northwest. It was founded by Dick Wagner in the 1970s and has grown to include two sites besides the one at South Lake Union: The Northlake Workshop & Warehouse at the north end of Lake Union, and the Center for Wooden Boats at Cama Beach State Park on Camano Island.

The Center for Wooden Boats’ collection includes over 170 vessels, mostly small sailboats and rowboats. Visitors have the opportunity to rent boats including the 20-foot (6.1 m) Blanchard Junior. These boats were designed and built at the Blanchard Boat Company on Lake Union. Not looking to sail away just yet? You might be interested in the nearby model boat pond. It’s just two feet deep but a whopping 100 feet wide. This pond is one of only a handful in the country, and is open to the public year-round. You can bring your own little boat or borrow one from the Center.

There is no admission fee to walk the docks or enter the Center for Wooden Boats. It is open 10 AM until 8 PM. Visit www.cwb.org for more information.

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50 YEARS AN ICON

Pacific Science Center sits in the shadow of Seattle’s Space Needle, the icon of the city’s skyline. The science center itself has become iconic in both Seattle’s history and the field of interactive informal learning. Pacific Science Center celebrated its 50th birthday in 2012 so here is a look back at its impressive origins - a reprisal from our 2012 issue.

The Pacific Science Center story begins at the 1962 “present the exciting story of science in a show unlike World’s Fair. Community leaders in Seattle originally any ever seen before,” according to the fair’s official guide rallied around the idea of a fair to commemorate the book. “It combines the techniques of a dozen graphic and 50th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition theater arts, is part historical drama, part laboratory, of 1905. They decided instead to host a fair later (1962 part magic and all science.” instead of 1955) and have science, space, and the future as the fair’s theme. Dubbed the , The pavilion itself was and is remarkable in appearance. the World’s Fair brought 15 international government The sugar-cube-like structures feature a treatment exhibitors, a host of industry exhibitors, and visitors of Gothic arch tracery that makes the prestressed to Seattle in record numbers—nearly 10 million people cast concrete look light and elegant. Tucked between turned out to see what the space age future might hold. the buildings is a courtyard featuring trees, water, and fountains. The science pavilion was the first Some companies had their own buildings. The Standard internationally recognized design by Seattle-born Oil Company envisioned a future of dome-covered architect . Yamasaki aimed to depart farms and automated highways. It was imagined and from the popular Modernist style but now it is impossible advertised in the fair that by the 21st century, we would to escape its 1962 grooviness. have flying cars, disposable dishes, and solar ovens. Men would fly to work in gyrocopters and come home to their wives who would presumably still be tending the home in the year 2000.

Although the Space Age would essentially come and go in a span of two decades, long before the 21st century even began, the futurists at the fair did get a few things right. Nobody spoke of the Information Age but there were predictions of office machines that could communicate with one another and telephones with pushbuttons instead of dials. The American Library Association had an exhibit featuring an enormous UNIVAC computer that could print out responses to visitor’s queries.

The jewel for the United States was the Science Pavilion, a six-acre facility with six buildings full of science marvels and activities. Congress appropriated $9.5

million to create the United States Science Exhibit to Children at the United States Science Exhibit Junior Laboratory

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Above and at left: Images of the United States Science Exhibition The Joy of Science This excitement ran for the duration of the fair, from April 21, 1962 until become Washington’s governor. Bryce Seidl, currently at the helm The science exhibit featured six areas: October 21 of that year when the last of the Center, is also the president of the Association of Science/ The House of Science, The Development Luna 69 exhibit at the Pacific Science Center, 1969. fair visitor went home. This was only Technology Centers (ASTC). of Science, The Methods of Science, the beginning; however, as the science The Horizons of Science, the Junior The Next Fifty pavilion was rededicated as Pacific Laboratory of Science, and the U.S.- Pacific Science Center is gearing up for its next half century of Science Center in a ceremony the day Boeing Spacearium. The latter was science and technology education with new exhibits in development after the exposition closed. an experience like no other. Similar to and facility upgrades. “As we approach our 50th Anniversary, Pacific a planetarium, the all-encompassing A New Era Science Center is as committed as ever to serving our community and domed screen showed “Journey to After several months of revolving being an engine for creative and critical thinking from our region,” the Stars”, a painstakingly developed leadership, Dixie Lee Ray, Ph.D. was said Seidl. Pacific Science Center will be “a public forum for great virtual trip from Earth to intergalactic appointed director of the new Science conversations, inquiry and innovation, helping to drive creative and space. Artists and engineers toiled to Center. Dr. Ray is credited with critical thinking in our region. We envision an expansive network of create the technology and content for the keeping the organization going once facilities and programs, enticing people of all ages to learn and explore. show all without the benefit of computer the momentum of the World’s Fair Under the arches, at our home in Seattle, we’ll continue to welcome animation. Interestingly, computers had diminished. Ray’s successor, Jim more than one million visitors each year and be among the top attended were used to design the lenses for the Backstrom, said of her, “It is hard to science museums in the nation. We’ll expand our reach to hundreds projectors. imagine anybody else who could persist of thousands more people with our provocative lectures, community under those conditions, the acute discussions with scientists, and thrilling classroom programs in every The four main buildings featured financial distress, the struggle to build county of the state,” reports their website. That’s a win for Seattle and stunning and elegant exhibits in a reasons for the public to come. Her the 21st century, even if we don’t get that gyrocopter. more traditional, expository vein. sheer stubborn persistence kept it alive Each was themed: fascination with The First Science Center? until it could be rescued; she kept it phenomena, curiosity as the origin of Perhaps some readers will question the “first” designation for Pacific from being squashed and washed away” science, questions lead to processes, Science Center. Here is the rationale: Pacific Science Center was the (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 3, and of course, the future. The Junior first to be founded as a science and technology center—and with science 1994). Laboratory of Science was the area that center in the name. Two of its notable predecessors are the Museum Today the same gallery hosts traveling exhibits. really behaved like a science center as George Moynihan came on board as of Science and Industry in Chicago and the California Museum of we have come to know them. Each of the Executive Director in 1980 and ushered Science and Industry (now California Science Center). Established in 26 exhibits was interactive and not just Pacific Science Center in the real 21st 1933 and 1951 respectively, these museums featured object displays, in a pushbutton way. Children could century during his impressive 23-year demonstrations, and interactive exhibits. Over the years, these venues pump air out of a vacuum chamber, tenure. Leaders at Pacific Science have evolved with greater emphasis on hands-on experiences, the manipulate a gyroscope, view objects Center have proven themselves in other hallmark of science centers. We will profile those great organizations through microscopes, and simulate roles as well. Dixie Lee Ray went on to in future issues. atomic particle bombardment.

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