Partners
Create.Connect was developed through collaboration between Conner Prairie and the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Create.Connect is one of several interpretive areas at Conner Prairie History Museum. This 3,000 square-foot permanent installation features four stories from Indiana’s past: Rural Electrification, 1930s; Wind Energy, 1880s & 1890s; Flight, 1910s; and Patent Office, 1950s.
The Science Museum of Minnesota is a national leader in developing highly interactive STEM exhibits for family audiences. A team of SMM and CP staff worked jointly to design and produce exhibit activities and settings that and integrate STEM and history content and support facilitated learning experiences. SMM also produced Create.Connect exhibit components for all four participant museums.
Four additional museums are participating in the project by hosting smaller versions of the exhibit that are adapted to local stories.
Mystic Seaport—The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is integrating a wind bench activity and various story components from Create.Connect to a larger exhibit called The Search for Speed.
Oliver H. Kelley Farm, Minnesota Historical Society in Elk River, Minnesota will be installing historical settings and a wind-energy activity from Create.Connect in their new visitor center opening in 2017. Meanwhile, the exhibit interactives are available to visitors in a temporary facility.
California State Railroad Museum, California State Parks in Sacramento, California has integrated electrical-circuit activities from Create.Connect into a new exhibit about the 1950’s transition from steam to diesel/electric powered railroads.
Wabash County Historical Museum in Wabash, Indiana is highlighting a moment in history—the lighting of Wabash in 1880—to engage audiences in a circuit-building activity and story elements from Create.Connect.