Science Alive Te Manawa Magic Box
SCIENCE ALIVE TE MANAWA MAGIC BOX, MOTAT
MOTAT, WESTERN SPRINGS AUCKLAND
This display and storage apparatus is a focus of MOTAT’s new Te Puawananga Science and Technology Centre. It is a device for securely storing resources, a platform for conducting live experiments and talks to an audience, a structure housing many complex exhibition cases, a projection lantern, and a children’s activity area with tables and flaps that fold down and open up in various permutations. Like a large science instrument for observation, it stands 5.5m tall and measures 5.5x3.6m and is moveable by remote control so gatherings can occur where it stands, after hours.