The “museum” park, exploring the scopes of History, Science, and Art through edutainment and creative drama, as a means to incorporate ‘fun’ with real learning.
Designed with legitimate museums in each zone, as well as attractions (rides and shows); the focal museums (the largest of each of the three zones) spans the whole back edge of its area. The Science area is in the front left quadrant, Art is in the front right quadrant, and History is across the back half. (History is more of a cultural exploration of human achievement and discovery than it is of countries and events; in this case, exploring Film, Music, Fashion, Travel, and Sports.)
The central area is based on Earth Science, and has its own Unisphere in the center. (Under the Unisphere is a schoolhouse with multiple rooms (tables or stadium seating) that you can use (or schedule to use) for instruction, activities, or as mini-theaters; and you can pick (by category, in a folder-in-folder hierarchy) numerous videos at your own leisure to watch, which tell of and show famous historical people and events related to the various exhibits here.
HISTORY
Film
The main summary attraction: enter an old cinema and take a seat, buckle in; there’s a quick rundown on a huge screen, then the screen raises and the auditorium seating moves forward (as the ride vehicle) through a series of vignettes and further screens detailing the history of film. (After a ride vehicle empties, the seating slides though the wall to return to the cinema.)
Music
From its invention as drum circles to its digital complexity in the modern age, and exploring the births of all major genres, from tribal to classical to opera to broadway to blues to rock to pop to rap to electronic and everything between.
Fashion
Travel
Railroad: when the ride goes through Wild West time, have it almost get held up by bandits, before crossing a bridge to safety (across a gulch); and in the early 20th century, have it experience or pass a train wreck.
Air: a googie-style airport terminal as its queue, a la the Theme Building at LAX.
Geography: a brief layout of the world, and the history of travel’s incorporation with geography, like with trading routes (land & sea), canals, railroads, highways, airports… (This area borders Art, at its Cartography area, and Science, at its Geology area.)
Sports
The main summary attraction is on the history of games and sports.
Numerous attractions about certain aspects of sports, and one on the Olympics and the best of “the best of the best”.
SCIENCE
Light & Sound
Technology; Industry, Invention, and Computers & Artificial Intelligence
Digital Age: programming, encrypting, storage, sending & receiving, protecting, viruses, data mining, etc.
History of Energy—its discovery, harvest, production, and usage.
Geology
Seismology, plate tectonics, time scale, rock cycle and types, layers of Earth, paleontology, natural hazards, oceanology, economic geology, sedimentology, volcanology, geophysics, meteorology, astronomy, glaciology, hydrology, ecology.
Wind-blower sand table, like in the Boston Museum of Science.
Paleontology sand tables, to dig-up bones, and—for the more capable—dried mud slabs with buried bones encased: using small tools, chip and brush away “rock” to unveil fossils, bones, and skeletons. (Replace a ‘used’ slab with ‘ready’ ones; heat mud to loosen it, refill slab with loose mud, arrange skeleton in mud, freeze until hard, and slab becomes ‘ready’ again.)
This area borders History, at its Travel area, and Art, at its Cartography area.
ART
Colors—how we perceive and use them.
Art Style—from minimalism and expressionism to realism and photography; different styles, movements, and mediums, in painting, sculpture, performances, et al.
The Written Word & Journalism
Famous books (from the Iliad to Of Mice and Men)
Phoenicians, Egyptians, Priests, Gutenberg, colonial pamphlets, newspapers, newsboys, Woodward & Bernstein, the 24-hour news cycle, dissemination and tribalism on the internet, the eternal battle of truth against lies, etcetera.
Cartography, Topography.
Incl. navigating by the stars, and constellations—finding images where there aren’t any, and developing myths behind them.
This area borders History, at its Travel area, and Science, at its Geology area.
Original document created 01/21/2015.