The 'CSI' Experience

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The museum exhibit based on the hit CSI franchise is now open in Chicago.

"CSI: The Experience" is an interactive exhibit that will spend several months in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. CSI creator <font color=yellow>Anthony Zuiker</font> helped to create the exhibit with CBS, the National Science Foundation and the Fort Worth Museum of Science. Forensic Technology, the company that developed the Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS), provided images for the exhibit. "CSI: The Experience" gives teenagers and adults the chance to collect and analyze evidence.

Museum guests choose between three crime scenes and then process the scene as though they were on a CSI show. The exhibit is interactive and the activities include comparing fingerprints, testing DNA, looking at ballistics and even attending an 'autopsy.' The cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, along with real-life forensic investigators, filmed videos for the exhibit to guide visitors through the process. Once they have completed their investigation, the museum guests enter a recreation of Gil Grissom's (<font color=yellow>William Petersen</font>) office to share their findings and compare their results with those of real CSIs.

"CSI: The Experience" will remain in Chicago from May 25 to September 3. When the exhibit leaves Chicago, it will begin a tour of the country that will take it to eight cities in seven years. The organizers may decide to send it to additional locations after the planned tour is over. The popularity of crime shows that involve technology has created an interest in police-style forensics. According to <font color=yellow>Olivier Perreault-Smith</font>, spokesman for Forensic Technology, fans "want to bridge the gap and make it as real as possible."

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I can't believe no one's talking about this yet.

I was so lucky. My family had already planned our trip to Chicago when I found out about the exhibit. I saw it the day it opened, and it was the highlight of the trip for me. It's not your typical museum exhibit--it was very interactive, and there was so much information. Not only are you trying to solve this case, but as you go through the different steps you're learning about all the science and history behind what you're doing.

It was a blast, and if you're in Chicago, you should definitely try to catch it. There's a little store at the end of it where you can buy shirts and hats and books and stuff for the kiddies. The ticket price includes general admission, so when you're done, you can go wander around the submarine or whatever.

(I do just want to point out that you don't get to enter the recreation of Grissom's office. It's a partial, but very detailed recreation and it is glassed in. You can't go inside it. You can just look into the glass walls, and then go to an area outside of it to share your findings.)

While you're there, wander around a little and find the CSI miniatures. Yes, that's right! The miniatures are there--all of them. I haven't been able to find out yet if they're the actual ones from the show or if they are replicas, but they are very cool. They're in Plexiglas locked boxes, so you can walk all around them and look at them from every angle.

--Sarah
 
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