It opens to the public on September 30, 2007 and shows through January 1, 2008.
Visitors to CSI: The Experience are led by cast members who portray investigators on the television show, along with their real-life counterparts, through three separate crime scenes: a city alley, a suburban home, and a woodland. In each setting, visitors are challenged to identify and gather evidence, analyze materials with the help of the latest scientific and technological advances; formulate hypotheses about the crime; and confirm and communicate their findings.
CSI: The Experience features two separate crime labs where visitors can explore the state-of-the-art technology used in evidence analysis. In order to identify vehicle tracks, clothing fibers, and paint chips in the first lab, museum-goers will collect data from mass spectrometry and microscope analysis to determine where matches occur and how they contribute to the larger hypothesis.
Here, visitors can also evaluate digital evidence provided by cell phones and other electronics, in addition to hard evidence such as fingerprints, blood patterns, and ammunition casings. In a second laboratory space, visitors examine forensic art as they study age progression and attempt to match an image with a victim. Throughout the exhibit, visitors can immerse themselves in diverse fields of study, such as anthropology, entomology, toxicology and hematology — the sciences vital to unraveling the mysteries of crime scene investigation.
At the end of CSI: The Experience, visitors use the scientific information they gathered to answer a series of multiple-choice questions on touch screens. After completing the survey, a case summary is generated and exhibit-goers can compare their scientific findings to those of expert crime scene investigators, concluding with a video evaluation by Gil Grissom, the lead investigator on CSI: The Experience.
CSI: The Experience was developed by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History for the Science Museum Exhibit Collaborative, with support from CBS Consumer Products, the cast and crew of the television show, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the National Science Foundation. CSI: The Experience is an immersive, interactive forensic science exhibit related to the hit TV series that invites people to use real science to solve hypothetical crimes in an exciting multi-media environment.
CSI: The Experience maintains the spirit of the popular television series and contains some graphic content. Parental guidance is suggested. -- www.mos.org
