Pattern Wizardry is a tri-lingual (French, Spanish, English) 1,200-square-foot traveling exhibition designed to encourage children’s inquiry into their world through investigations of how patterns organize and enrich their lives. The exhibition features materials selected from the Museum’s collection of nearly 30,000 cultural artifacts and natural-science objects.

The exhibition is designed for children between the ages of 5-12 and is also intended for families, educators, schools, and community organizations that focus on childhood education and enrichment. The exhibition is written at a third- and fourth-grade reading level and is in rhyme to evoke a wizard spell or incantation to engage visitors of all ages. Activities and components encourage both thoughtful and fun individual experiences as well as shared interactions among children, and between children and adults.

Pattern Wizardry supports national elementary curriculum standards by exploring the cultural meanings and mathematical and scientific concepts that underlie patterns through hands-on activities, participatory multi-media, and interactives that encourage children to recognize, identify, compare and create patterns.

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AVAILABILITY

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GALLERY REQUIREMENTS

1,400 square feet, 9'0" ceiling heights, moderate security, stable temperature and humidity (AAM standards), nine 110-volt grounded outlets

INSTALLATION

Venues are approximately 12 weeks long (open to the public). Exhibition will be delivered five working days prior to opening. Schedule assumes Saturday openings, with Sunday as last day open. Installation assumes three or four working days for installation crew of four people, plus one day for shakedown and training. There will be seven to nine working days between closing date and delivery to next venue.

SUPPORT MATERIALS

A user manual, detailing educational programming, marketing and sponsorship strategies, and exhibition installation; a Portable Museum case; and a website presence on the Brooklyn Children's Museum site all support the core exhibition.

 

 

Pattern Wizardry is funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation.