New globe to bring a little Magic to Museum
In 2009 Sedgwick Museum curators will be unveiling some cutting-edge technology with the Darwin the Geologist exhibition. This is the exhibition team’s most recent purchase, a Magic Planet® globe.
This shiny bauble uses an internal projection fish eye lense to play back images of the planet in motion. The Darwin team intend to use it to illustrate the voyage of HMS Beagle around the world.
Visitors will also be able to interact with the globe through controls on its stand, bringing up locations and information about places that Darwin visited and collected in.
Museum educators are excited that the globe can also play back animations of NASA images of changing conditions on planet Earth and other planets.
Come see it in action when the exhibition opens in July 2009!