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INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS FOR OIL & GAS EXHIBITION
This exhibition tells the exciting story of the Norwegian oil industry at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo.
The exhibition covers the Norwegian oil deposit and its ramifications. It investigates the economical, environmental, scientific and societal consequences of Norway’s vast oil reserves. The exhibition ties together 5 themes or perspectives on oil that runs through the exhibition. They are represented by five color-coded pipes that take the visitor through history from the creation of oil millions of years ago to the future and what that might hold for Norway depending on different scenarios. The pipes run parallel and sometimes connect at crucial tipping points in history but also diverge and expand to tell their own stories. The interactive installations Gagarin produced are as follows:
Oil oven This installations challenges the guests to answer various of questions relating to processing of oil i.e. ”How many dinosaurs does it take to make a liter of oil?” the installation asks you. The two oil ovens consist of interactive touch screens and tangible knobs where the visitor can learn about the origin of oil and gas. The visitor selects an organism to make oil, turns back time 200 million years on the oven’s timer and proceeds to learn how oil was generated. The installation aims to show just how much living creatures and how long time it actually takes to produce oil. The fact that oil was once living organisms also refers back to the fact that oil in a way is originally sunlight that has been stored at the bottom of the sea for millions of years.
Contributer notes
What is surprising, refreshing, most interesting?
The whole installations challenges the audience to answer various of questions relating to processing of oil, such as "How many dinosaurs does it take to make a liter of oil?" , which makes the installation interesting and engaging.
Key Insights? What can we learn from this?
The theme of a exhibition can be a normal daily life thing. Having the opportunity to exhibits the process of oil production with interactive features, makes the exhibition unique but also meaningful for audience to learn.