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CSI: The Experience is a traveling exhibition about crime lab forensic science and technology inspired by the hit TV series CSI.

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The exhibit was developed for the Science Museum Exhibit Collaborative by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in partnership with CBS Consumer Products and the National Science Foundation, which provided $2.4 million in funding for both the exhibit and a CSI "Web Adventure" targeted to underserved youth. It has the American Academy of Forensic Sciences’ seal of approval and deep involvement. Rice University’s Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning created the online experience, and Bob Weis Design Island Associates led the exhibit’s design.

This is not the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s first venture into the world of forensic science. The Museum also developed the exhibit, Whodunit? The Science of Solving Crime in 1993 for the Science Museum Exhibit Collaborative and it has toured 32 science centers since. Advances in DNA science and information technology have dramatically changed the field of forensic science, leading to the new exhibit on the topic.

CSI: The Experience debuted at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in May 2007 and is currently touring museums and science centers across the country and abroad. It will open in the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s new facility in fall 2009. CSI: The Experience also runs currently in Dublin, Ireland (opened 12th August, 2009)

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Cast members from the series, along with their real-life counterparts, welcome visitors to CSI: The Experience from a large video monitor, then lead them throughout the experience. The new recruits start their investigation in one of three crime scenes: a suburban living room, a hotel alley, and a remote desert. In each, visitors are challenged to identify and gather evidence; analyze materials with the help of the latest scientific and technological advances; formulate hypotheses about the crime; and confirm and communicate their findings.

CSI: The Experience features two separate crime labs where visitors can explore the state-of-the-art technology used in evidence analysis. In order to trace vehicle tracks, clothing fibers, and paint chips in the first lab, museum-goers will collect data from microscope analysis to determine where matches occur and how they contribute to the larger hypothesis. Here, visitors can also evaluate digital evidence provided by cell phones and other electronics, in addition to hard evidence such as fingerprints, blood patterns, and ammunition casings.

In a second laboratory space, visitors examine forensic art as they study age progression and attempt to match an image with a victim. Visitors will study DNA evidence and experience an autopsy for pathology analysis. At the end of CSI: The Experience, visitors use the scientific information they gathered to answer a series of multiple-choice questions on touch screens. After completing the survey, visitors proceed to a recreation of Gil Grissom’s office to present their case. Exhibit-goers can compare their scientific findings to those of expert crime scene investigators.

The exhibit is geared toward adults and youth 12 and above.

[edit] Cast & Crew promote exhibit

CSI: The Experience opened with a star-studded press preview on May 23, 2007, at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. All the cast members from the CBS series came out to celebrate CSI: The Experience. After the ribbon cutting, William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger and the rest of the CSI-cast took a tour of the interactive exhibit, where visitors can gather evidence, run tests and crack the case just like the investigators do on the show."

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The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has earned the Themed Entertainment Association's Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement for CSI: The Experience. The THEA Awards, considered the experience industry's highest honor, recognize excellence in the creation of outstanding guest experiences.

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