ECSITE annual meeting 2006 : invitation for the board

CERN march 7-8 2007 : ECSITE board meeting

ECSITE annual meeting 2007 : EPPOG presentation and different contacts

Summer 2007 discussions with Past president and Director

Estimated costs (€)

• Design concept (completed) 50’000 €

already paid

• Production + manufacture 500’000 €

• Cost per venue “Outsourced”

- installation/dismantling/transport 50’000 €

•“I am ready to start the dialogue with CERN (on behalf of ECSITE) to decide whether or not there is basis for a

cooperation between CERN and ECSITE in developing and touring an exhibition about particle physics, CERN and

the LHC.•My strategy for the project is that money should come from CERN, the ECSITE members that decide to join the

consortium and the EC(FP7). The development of the exhibition becomes a hands-on exhibition (as much as

possible) and NOT a traditional exhibition (books on the walls). ECSITE should be paid some money to organize

the project.”• Asger Hoeg

•Today …explorations in three directions:

•Through FP7… ask for 250 k€

•With ECSITE

•Through a Geneva Foundation with the participation of UNIGE

The Globe of Science and Innovation

CERN’S NEW TRAVELLING CERN’S NEW TRAVELLING EXHIBITION PROJECT EXHIBITION PROJECT

Project history: • CERN’s first travelling exhibition

• 1997 - 2002

• 15 venues, 750’000 visitors

- Technical Museum Vienna; 22 weeks, 117’000 visitors

- Palais de la Découverte, Paris; 17 weeks, 100’000 visitors

- Technopolis, Mechelen; 19 weeks, 98’000 visitors

- Experimentarium, Copenhagen; 6 weeks, 66’000 visitors

New travelling exhibition

Project history > 2003, phase 1 and 2:• Market survey to select designer

- 17 potential European design companies

- 9 replies expressing interest;

- 4 projects retained

- Analysis of projects by a selection jury (8 + 2)

- Experts x 2: - Gordon Rankmore NHM, London

- Bernard Gérard, Palais de la découverte, Paris,

• Northern Lights selected

New travelling exhibition

• Design constraints, based on CERN’s previous travelling expo:

- Surface max. 300 m2

- Max. height 3.40 metres

- Language Minimum 2 languages/venue

- Installation 3 days max

- Dismantling 2 days max

- Installation/ dismantling team 3 technicians + 1 manager

- Transport; 1 truck + 1 trailer ~ 80m3

New travelling exhibition

Project history > 2003 - 2004 phase 3

• Exhibition design concept- Main messages

- Goals

- Target audience

- Age groups

- Duration

Exhibition design concept cont’d.

• Main messages- What does CERN do

- Why does CERN do this

- How does CERN do this

- Who does this

• Goals- Instill curiosity and wonder about the origins of our Universe

- Show the importance of fundamental research

- Underline the European and Worldwide collaboration

Exhibition design concept, cont’d

• Target audience- Families with Children

- School groups

- Scientifically curious

• Goals- Children > 8 enjoyable partial understanding

- Children > 12 full understanding

Potential exhibition titles:

• The worlds largest and most powerful "Time machine"

• Recreating the Big Bang

• Understanding our origins

• Travelling back in time

Final design concept

•Entrance

- The tunnel

•Main exhibition - Themed areas

•Exit- Souvenir of visit

The tunnel (5 spheres)

•Sphere 1- the present, 13’700 million years after the Big bang

•Sphere 2- 9’200 million years after the Big bang

•Sphere 3- 200 million years after the Big bang

•Sphere 4- 380 thousand years after the Big bang

•Sphere 5- just after the Big bang

The tunnel concept

• Narrative pulls the visitor through the tunnel (10 - 15 mins)

- Moving from sphere to sphere

- Present to a micro second after the Big bang

• Exit from the Tunnel- Animation of the Big bang

- The projection fades way, a large particle detector appears

- Audio visual information about the detector its “raison d'être”

- Animation particles colliding within the detector

- Images from the LHC; the accelerator, the detectors

Themed areas (Islands “How and Who”)

• The challenges- Accelerator engineering

- Detector engineering

- Data analysis, (the web, the grid)

- Applications of CERN technology

• Local contribution

• Conclusion/souvenir of visit

Islands

• Using different media• Large spectacular graphic panels

• Models

• Screens (Pc or video)

• 1 - 2 interactive “Hands-on” per island