{"id":7395,"date":"2017-01-31T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2017-01-31T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:28:14","slug":"best-museums-technology-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/best-museums-technology-exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Museums with Technology Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>In today\u2019s constantly shifting, constantly evolving sphere of technological advancements, the words \u201cmuseum\u201d and \u201ctechnology\u201d hardly seem compatible. However, across the country, more and more museums are offering exciting and novel investigations of the relationship between technology, invention, and history. <\/span><\/p>\n

These museums provide the public with interactive exhibits, opportunities to improve themselves, and in-depth displays of our world\u2019s most extraordinary advancements. From robotics, to medicine, to computers, to space, you\u2019ll find endless demonstrations of technology to engage with. Some of the best options are listed below, but these are by no means exclusive.<\/p>\n

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The Tech Museum of Innovation<\/b><\/p>\n

Ringing in first on many bloggers\u2019 lists is the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. This museum offers a glimpse into the quickest growing region in the tech field \u2014 Silicon Valley. \u00a0From the 2017 Tech Awards \u2014 which honored more than 250 laureates for their inventions and discoveries in the recent past \u2014 to the 2017 Tech Challenge (aptly titled \u201cRock the Ravine\u201d), the museum engages a community of all ages. Children and adults alike are invited to come see movies in IMAX or to submit ideas and teams to the Challenge. Either way, the opportunities for participation are endless.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Museum of Science and Industry<\/b><\/p>\n

Then, there\u2019s the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois. A current exhibit has intricately designed LEGO structures recreating some of humanity\u2019s greatest technological feats. <\/span>Brick by Brick <\/span><\/i>is just one example of the creative and fresh exhibits on display in the museum. It is vast and well-designed, and you could easily spend a day getting lost in its many different floors and rooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Exploratorium<\/b><\/p>\n

Also on the West Coast is the Exploratorium, a San Francisco-based museum dedicated not only to science, but also to art and human perception. The museum features artworks that blend light, sound, technology, and, above all, what those things mean from the human viewpoint. Its most popular feature is consistently listed as the \u201cTactile Dome,\u201d where you can venture into a pitch-black dome with no senses except touch. You\u2019ll learn about the result of sensory isolation, and it is said that the experience is \u201cnot to be missed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Natural History Museum<\/b><\/p>\n

For those on the East Coast, check out the Natural History Museum in New York City, where the \u201ctechnology\u201d exhibition stems back hundreds of thousands, even millions, of years. You\u2019ll travel back over in time and then forward again, and you\u2019ll leave with an understanding of our progression as humans, and how we got to the technology boom we\u2019re living in now. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venture into exhibits that examine some exciting developments. From the east to the west, the opportunities for museum exploration are growing by the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4262],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","tag-best-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}