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ACCESSIBLE EXHIBIT DESIGN
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The Solar System Radio Explorer Kiosk (SSREK)
The Solar System Radio Explorer Kiosk (SSREK) is an accessible museum kiosk that engages and teaches visitors about Jupiter and the Sun by learning what their low frequency radio bursts may be telling us about these worlds. The exhibit includes captioning and vibrations (for hearing-impaired visitors) and audio and colorful tactile graphics along the sides and front of the exhibit. The tactile graphics which were designed by You Can Do Astronomy LLC. This exhibit is on display at the Goddard Space Flight Center - Visitor's Center in Greenbelt, MD.
http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssrek/
![]() Solar System Side of SSREK |
![]() Multi-Wavelength Jupiter side of SSREK |
![]() A visitor examines the SSREK tactile graphics |
![]() Noreen Grice and Dr. Leonard Garcia (scientist, SSREK exhibit) |
In celebration of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, a NASA-funded exhibit entitled "From Earth to the Universe" uses tactile images adapted from the book Touch the Invisible Sky (by Noreen Grice, Simon Steel and Doris Daou ).

http://www.fromearthtotheuniverse.org/tactile.php
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