Become a Real-Life CSI
A lifelong TV nut, I get an especially big kick out of it every time I pass by the Museum of Science while riding the Heath Street Green Line train from the beginning of the route in East Cambridge, where I live, into metro Boston. The reason is because the museum is in the midst of an interactive exhibit inspired by the hit television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its two spin-offs, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY. A huge display is on view outside to advertise the event to passersby near and far.
The Museum of Science’s hourlong exhibit is called CSI: The Experience, and it certainly lives up to the post-colon part of that name. Visitors get the chance to become a crime scene investigator as they encounter not only a simulated crime scene, but recreations of the crime laboratories used to analyze evidence, complete with innovative technology. I don’t have to tell parents how much curious young people enjoy this type of realistic activity. It’s an amazing event for adults, as well, especially those among the millions of viewers who follow one or more of the series in the top-rated CSI franchise.
On the off-chance that you don’t watch TV or don’t recognize the title, CSI is a crime procedural that focuses on the role of forensics in police work. Each episode revolves around the steps that forensic scientists would hypothetically follow to recreate the pertinent details of a crime, usually murder, in order to close an investigation by nabbing or identifying the culprit(s).
If you’re a fan of the original CSI in particular, then you might consider one aspect of the exhibit especially intriguing. The Museum of Science even has on display six of the very same miniature props used in the show’s miniature killer story arc last season. If that’s not enough to inspire excitement either, then perhaps this fact will: participants wrap up their adventure in forensics with a visit to a replica of lead CSI investigator Gil Grissom’s office.
CSI: The Experience opened on September 30 in Boston and runs until January 1, 2008. Time is rapidly passing, though, and soon the exhibit will be moving on to its next temporary location. To learn more about the Boston stop while the exhibit is still in town, visit the CSI: The Experience website hosted by the Museum of Science. An independent website targeting a national audience is also online, and it indicates the second leg of the U.S. tour is the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Houston, Texas, from February 2 to April 30, 2008.
Boston’s Museum of Science is located at:
Science Park
Boston, MA 02114
617-723-2500
information@mos.org
www.mos.org
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