The Vision of the Museum

The Museum of Living Sciences

at The University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Vision

The Dairy Barn becomes a Hands-on Science Experimentorium in the Living Sciences

		. . . bringing thousands of families and tens of thousands of students K-12 to campus every year,
		. . . where people experience science not only as something they receive, but something they make by exploring and experimenting.

	Unlike "Natural History" Museums, where most exhibits consist almost entirely of dead or non-living objects, the Museum consists almost entirely ofliving plants, animals, microbes and other organisms.
	The Museum taps the research strengths of CALS and the campus in life sciences. Faculty committed to outreach can see their work in development and in use.
	The Museum is a space for learning by doing, using plants, animals, microbes to develop skills of the experimenter.
	The Museum houses a "breeding program" modeled after Fast Plants. This program develops new modes and new materials for formal and non-formal Outreach in the life sciences. It blazes the way for putting more life into science programs.
	The Museum reaches out everywhere by connecting all activities to the Internet's World Wide Web, in real time, all the time. No museum in the world does this, and the Museum could be the first to be designed to do this from the ground up. This would include the option of remote viewing and participation in real-time experiments.
	The Museum will be home for original inventions and for working replicas of historic inventions. Visitors can see, touch and use items such as the Babcock centrifuge, ultrasound probes and gene guns.

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