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Slave Ship (Diaspora)
The replicated hold of a slave ship creates a frame of reference for a clearer understanding of the transatlantic slave trade. As spotlights illuminate the silhouettes of enslaved Africans, the voices of the slaves relate their stories in different African languages. |
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Tuareg Tent (Caravan)
Visitors can observe an actual goatskin tent, the mobile home of a nomadic Tuareg family. Usually a Tuareg woman can pack up and move the contents of an entire household such as this one on two donkeys or one camel in about two hours. |
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Smelting Interactive (Families & Festivals)
Two boys pump air into the bellows of a metal-working furnace. Increasing the air flow intensifies the red glow atop the furnace, indicating the heat necessary to smelt, or separate, valuable metals from impurities in the raw ores. |
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Well Interactive (Caravan)
At this hands-on display, two teenagers discover getting water from a well is hard work. The interactive pulley simulates the power needed to hoist a 13-gallon bucket of water up 98 feet--approximately one third the length of a football field. |
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Suburban Family Home (Families & Festivals)
The photographic images of family members in a suburb of Dakar, Senegal welcome visitors to their home. Museum-goers can observe modern domestic life through three-dimensional settings in the family's courtyard and through videos of the actual courtyard activities. |
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Camel Adaptation
Interactive (Caravan)
Hands-on activities on this camel cutout describe the dromedary's adaptations to its desert environment: broad feet, built-in visors, long lashes, extra eyelids, slit-like nostrils and an extraordinary ability to conserve water. |
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