Carnegie Science Center’s 7,500 square foot permanent gallery, Mars: The Next Giant Leap, sends visitors on a 300-million-mile journey to discover how space exploration and the latest thinking about how to sustain life on another planet can improve our lives on Earth today. Seven highly-integrated and interactive media experiences reveal the visions, challenges, and solutions of a Martian society, highlighting what it takes to create an equitable future no matter what planet we live on.
The Forum
Over 600 square feet of the gallery are dedicated to a scale model of a Martian colony that evolves as visitors interact with it. Visitors vote on societal issues along an interactive rail that gives a window into the colony’s culture, concerns, and structure. Based on visitor input, new buildings are added to the model over time. Monitors embedded in cliffsides and surface dwellings augment the colony’s interior life with beautifully-detailed, updatable animations. A custom CMS allows the museum to update visitor experience as the colony progresses, reflecting the ever-evolving future of humans and Mars.
Planet Lab
Visitors encounter Planet Lab. From two touch stations, they play out hypothetical geological scenarios on Mars and Earth and watch the results animate across a 27-foot wide panoramic view of the planets from space.
We love working with RLMG. They listen, think creatively, work collaboratively, and develop media and processes that exactly fit our needs. We ask the (nearly) impossible, and RLMG always delivers.
Jennifer Lawrence | Director of Experience Design and Fabrication, Carnegie Science Center
