Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

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Take your senses on a wild ride as you wander through secret doors and rooms where sound, gravity and perspective take a detour from reality. Witness strange phenomena in the Cabinets of Curiosity or learn your fortune from a mysterious carnival booth. If you’re lucky, you may even meet a few ghosts...

What’s the Real Stuff?
The Attic may only have a loose grip on reality, but there’s still lots of Real Stuff in it.

		Gravity Room Items in this room are tilted at a 25° angle to the floor, so your inner ear, which helps you maintain balance and body orientation, is at odds with your eyes. What’s your brain to think?

Phosphorescent Room Capture your shadow on the wall with a strobe light in this secret room and experiment with foam props to add funny shapes to your shadow. Draw with light-emitting diode (LED) pens to add funky details.

		Animateering Create your own virtual puppet show on a large video screen using the Children’s Museum’s puppet collection captured in a virtual world. You pick the puppets, the scenery, the music and how your puppet moves. Direct the show using a joystick and buttons.

Pepper’s Ghost A glass pane combines images from two rooms into one so you see a "ghost" standing next to you when one really isn’t there. Look at the reflection of a car windshield - it combines the sky and items on the dashboard in the same way.

3-D Sound Your ears help you locate where sound comes from. Binaural recordings reproduce real world sound by recording sound from each ear on separate tracks.

Explore more

Here's where you can explore more about these topics with the following books and websites. Many of the books can be reserved online from the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh. The first category is books and website geared toward the Pre-K child; the rest of the categories are for all ages.

Do It Yourself

After you've visited this exhibit be sure you try these activities: Cabinet of Curiosity.

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Gravity Room

Phosphorescent Room

Animateering

Pepper’s Ghost

3-D Sound

Attic Exploration for the Pre-K Child

Light, Phosphorescence and Shadows

Ghosts, Curiosities and Phenomena

Gravity

3-D Sound