Great Lakes Museum Of Science Environment And Technology

Exhibits: in addition to hundreds of hands-on exhibits and annual temporary exhibitions, glsc is the home of the nasa glenn visitor center, the steamship william g. Mather, and the cleveland clinic dome theater. This year we created the temporary exhibitions, build it as well as tapescape: international tape station, and we opened a major new permanent exhibition, the cleveland creates gallery presented by the sherwin williams company. We built two temporary exhibitions in house this year, including the popular build it theme, exploring stem with building bricks. Our summer 2024 temporary exhibition, tapescape: international tape station was a design feat, (continued on schedule o)allowing guests to walk, slide, and crawl through a large-scale model of the international space station (iss) made out of packing tape, floating 7 feet off the ground. It took up four times the space of our 2018 installation but used half the tape. The exhibition featured projection mapping technologies, adding visual context to the tape structure. A range of interactive and display exhibits focused on nasa's material science research and innovation, including thin films, battery covers, spacesuit materials, and materials science iss research artifacts. Glsc opened the cleveland creates gallery, presented by the sherwin company on february 23, 2024. The exhibition is the culmination of a decade of workforce development partnerships and programming. The project transforms a previously underutilized area into two distinct levels and adds a new floor with a gallery on level one and the transdigm group learning center and the rockwell automation robotics lab on the ground level. In the cleveland creates gallery guests explore technology, iot sensors, data, ai, remote robotics, and stem careers, all core for the emerging tech of advance manufacturing in our region. The project is a $4.9 million investment that prioritizes public access, connecting guests with the tools, skills, and jobs of advanced manufacturing. We know that our region's strength depends on the children of today seeing themselves confidently in the stem-rich workforce of tomorrow.glsc's nasa glenn visitor center is one of only 11 congressionally-designated nasa visitor centers in the country. The center includes three galleries that allow our guests to experience aviation and aerospace innovation through interactive exhibits, fascinating artifacts, and a vast collection of nasa media. 2024-with tapescape: international tape station and the total eclipse fest with nasa village-was an excellent example of how glsc's partnership with nasa glenn research center is thriving with new content and strong public engagement.the science phenomena gallery offers more than 90 interactive experiences that demonstrate the wonders of science. Visitors engage with classic experiments like photoluminescence in the shadow room, and new active prolonged engagement exhibits like derby dash. Other new exhibit elements include the northeast ohio science and engineering fair periodic table exhibit and the northeast ohio public energy council wind turbine exhibit. Biomedtech gallery provides interactive exhibits, videos, and educational displays focusing on genomics, stem cells, prosthetics, and functional electrical stimulation (fes), helping guests understand how these technologies advance health and improve lives. This gallery now includes exhibits on nanoscale science and medical research trials.polymer fun house is geared for our youngest guests. In the fun house, guests age 7 and younger have their own area to explore basic science principles through open ended play. The area also includes the seasonal outdoor exhibit port polymer and a special infant area. Steamship william g. Mather gives visitors a glimpse of life on board a working great lakes freighter, through the restored 618-foot historic flagship of cleveland-cliffs iron company. Self-guided tours allow visitors to step back in time to explore the ship that built cleveland.

Membership and marketing: glsc furthers its mission and strategic plan goals for membership and marketing using a data-informed decision-making process. Marketing efforts include a mix of earned, owned, and paid media initiatives, designed to reach core and specially-identified audiences reliably and efficiently. With a new permanent gallery, temporary exhibitions, new programs, and the once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse fest, glsc used a combination of targeted digital ads, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, social media advertising, streaming video ads, and traditional broadcast and print outlets. Glsc earned significant media attention (continued on schedule o)before and during the total eclipse fest. The potential audience reach, or number of people who potentially saw any form of advertising from the science center as part of the eclipse was 4.3 billion. The advertising value equivalency, or amount of paid advertising that would need to be placed to receive similar coverage was $19.3 million. In total, glsc welcomed 25 media outlets with 11 broadcasting live from our event media headquarters, including nasa+ that provided national coverage of the eclipse, beginning and ending their coverage of the momentous day from their broadcast epicenter on glsc's front lawn in the midst of nasa village. Digital media was also a success. 12.4 million users were reached on facebook and instagram over two days. The engagement rate for our instagram posts was 50.27% compared to an industry average of 1.4% and facebook posts was 7.74% compared to an industry average of 0.98%. Our website was visited more than 10,000 times in the 3 weeks leading up to the event and the time spent on our website was more than double the normal time. Media for total eclipse fest received a number of accolades including an emmy for nasa+ for their outstanding live news special, presented at the 46th annual news and documentary emmy awards. Glsc center served 5,650 member households this year, with a renewal rate of 22%, an increase over prior years. Member attendance remained strong, with 51,332 member visits in 2024. Glsc welcomed 302,166 guests in 2024, the highest since 2014 when we hosted titanic: the artifact exhibition. Attendance included 100,091 free visitors, over 8 free days, the total eclipse fest, and special student programing such as cc6,7,8 and grow up great with science.

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