Lego Museum of Nature and Technology
The title pretty much tells it all. Imagine an interactive nature and technology museum for children and adults, whose exhibits are mostly composed of Lego, and whose exhibits are presented chronologically, guiding patrons through a maze, similar to how Ikea guides customers through a maze.
The first room would be a fusion of three exhibits, one of Lego superstrings and rings, fused to an observable universe made out of Lego, fused to a depiction of Michelangelo’s iconic image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam, where Adam is replaced by the observable universe. In essence, this room would be the room of creation, representing the two major schools of thought on creation, that of science and religion, to satisfy the beliefs of all who enter. As this piece would be a fusion piece, religious folk would first focus on God and see creation and science as an extension of God, and scientific folk would first focus on superstrings and see creation and God as manifestations of change as described by science.
From this first room, patrons could choose to proceed down a fork in the maze, one fork that that explains creation from a scientific and the other fork that explains creation from a religious perspective.
The scientific fork would guide patrons through exhibits that show how Lego superstrings and rings organize to evolve into Lego force and matter particles, which evolve into Lego hydrogen particles, which evolve into Lego galaxies, which evolve into Lego stars, which evolve into Lego supernovas, which evolve into Lego planets composed of other Lego molecules on the Periodic Table, which evolve into single Lego cells, which evolve into colonies of Lego cells, which evolve into multicellular Lego organisms with Lego tissues and organs, which evolve into Lego animals, which evolve into Lego humans.
The religious fork would guide patrons to a white room made of Lego which would branch into the US’ major religions described by Wikipedia…
• Christian: (78.5%)
o Protestant (51.3%)
o Roman Catholic (23.9%)
o Mormon (1.7%)
o other Christian (1.6%)
• Jewish (1.7%)
• Buddhist (0.7%)
• Muslim (0.6%)
…each of which would tell their respective Lego story of creation and the subsequent development of technology that followed.
The scientific and religious forks would unite after the time of the Prophet Mohamed, the most recent of the four religions, to describe the stage of human technological development.
The exhibit would then turn into a series of chronological and highly interactive technological exhibits made of Lego, the last of which would be medical technology exhibits, which would guide patrons to another fork in the maze. A fork that describes death as a return to changing manifestations of superstrings and superrings, and a fork that would bring patrons to a room that again splits into heaven or purgatory. All the rooms would then return to first room, a fusion of superstrings, the observable universe, and God, to complete a circle symbolic of the shared concept of infinity in science and religion. Specifically, infinite change and an infinite God, respectively.
Of course this concept could also be created from other children’s building sets, but having grown up with Lego, Lego is the building material of choice for this museum concept. All rights reserved by Frederic Scott Janson 2008.
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