Science

Questacon—The National Science and Technology Centre in Canberra has ‘orchestrated' a new touring exhibition: Strike a Chord—The Science of Music.

Music is a language common to every culture on Earth. Music soothes and excites our senses and helps us to celebrate cultural events and major milestones. Strike a Chord offers visitors rich opportunities to explore the physics, psychology, sociology and physiology of music.

Questacon's suite of 14 exhibits coming to Indonesia as part of Strike a Chord, will have you recording and producing your own digital music, discovering nursery rhymes from other parts of the world, playing the ‘Drum Dance’ or composing a minuet, just like Mozart.

The exhibition also contains ‘Quirky Fact’ panels covering unusual topics in music. This exhibition will appeal to a broad range of ages, including teenagers and young adults and several exhibits are suitable for people with hearing or visual disabilities.

Strike a Chord's exhibits have been developed in consultation with acoustic researchers, psychologists and music historians to tell a symphonic story of music from its earliest development through to modern digital music files.

Exhibition Schedule

Date: 1 December 2009 – 31 March 2010

Time: 08:30-16:30

Place:
PP IPTEK (Indonesian National Science and Technology Museum)
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta

For further information:

Tel: (021) 8401488 / 33221488

Website: http://ppiptek.ristek.go.id