The Experiential Design Index

iWall Interactive Ice Core Exhibit — American Museum of Natural History

An interactive "iWall" installation in the David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, built and installed by Art Guild in 2019, lets visitors explore roughly 110,000 years of climate data alongside a physical model of the GISP2 Greenland ice core.

VenueAmerican Museum of Natural History
Project typeInstallation
StatusCompleted
Year completed2019
Technologiesinteractive sliding-track touchscreen

Credits

FirmRoleNote
Art Guild, Inc. Fabrication

Description

A sliding touchscreen viewer moves along a track in front of a plastic model of the GISP2 ice core, allowing visitors to browse climate-history data corresponding to different depths of the 3,053-meter core (sections of which are preserved at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado).

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