Last week Holi was celebrated in India (with a lot of colours) and this week Easter in the Christian world (with equally many colours). Happy celebrations! Easter eggs are very popular within the IMAGINARY team, not the chocolate ones, but the ones you hide within a software program. We hid two Easter eggs in our museum exhibits: one in the MiMa museum in Oberwolfach and one in the MoMath museum in New York. They are...Read more
IMAGINARY goes North and East - upcoming exhibitions in Denmark, Russia and Norway
IMAGINARY goes North and East - upcoming exhibitions in Denmark, Russia and Norway
Apr. 4, 2013
This Friday, April 5, a special IMAGINARY exhibition featuring sculptures and images will be shown for the first time in Denmark, at the Steno Science Museum in Aarhus, see here for the event info. It will be open until August 31, 2013. Then the exhibition series in Russia will find its continuation in a one week exhibition at Pushchino, a small town south of Moscow. It is the fifth exhibition in Russia, coordinated in collaboration with the German Embassy in Moscow (and some more are in the planning pipeline). In May IMAGINARY will be honoured to travel to Norway - also a first-timer - to be shown after the celebrations of the Abel prize ceremony in Oslo. It will be presented in a science museum in Trondheim - more detailscon be found here.
And if you are in Spain (and up for the Camino de Santiago), don’t forget to stop by the University Church next to Santiago de Compostela’s cathedral to see the ongoing RSME-IMAGINARY there - open until May 16, 2013.
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Mar. 7, 2013
We are very happy that the user response to the new IMAGINARY platform was so big - too big for our server capacity. Today in the morning we registered 1.3 million accesses on the site (before 11:30 am) and we had to react quickly to shift the website to a new server. This caused several delays and also the platform was not online for about 2 hours. We are very sorry for this!
Now the platform is up and...Read more
Feb. 10, 2013
On March 5, 2013 the new exhibition “Mathematics of Planet Earth” (MPE) and the new IMAGINARY platform will be launched officially at the MPE UNESCO day. The platform will host the open source exhibition, which will be physically displayed for the first time at UNESCO and remain there until March 8. The venue is...Read more
Dec. 12, 2012
The new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) will open its doors in Manhattan, New York. “Mathematics illuminates the patterns and structures all around us. Our dynamic exhibits and programs will stimulate inquiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics. The Museum will have its grand opening on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 11 East 26th Street in Manhattan.”
IMAGINARY is present with one exhibit: a...Read more