To give and aerial view, this exhibit will essentially be shaped like a fidget spinner; with three main rooms that are connected by smaller passageways (so that you can’t see into the next room), and that encircle an enclosed inner space.
You begin by walking into the first of the three spaces, and you’re immediately transported to the environment of the arctic. Imagine imitation ice blocks that you’re walking on, and the walls are covered in images of the surrounding ice glaciers and seas. But most importantly, you are in an interactive environment with the animals of the arctic ecosystem (fake of course). There are life-like polar bears, and sea lions (and a whale painted on the wall) around you that you can touch, and little blurbs about them and how they interact with each other and the environment.
Then you continue along the passage way into the next room, and you’re transported to the open plains. The walls are painted to show grassy land going on for miles into the distance. There are animals like tigers, elephants, a rhinoceros, and again, it’s interactive, so you can really get to know the environment these animals live in.
Then, continuing along, you reach the third room which is the same format as the former two, except that it is modeled to feel like the jungle. There are monkeys and gorillas, birds, and maybe a panda in the wall scenery.
For all three rooms there are quiet background noises playing, to really immerse you in what each respective environment might feel like.
Then after this third room, you walk through a doorway into the center of the fidget spinner like shape into a circular room. There are one-way viewing windows into each room that you walked through: the arctic, the savannah, and the jungle. This room houses pieces of art depicting animals made by humans from the present day all the way back to the 10th century BCE. There are examples of modern art, fine art, and some sculptures and wood carvings. They are organized by what ecosystem each respective animal fits into, so for example, the pictures of tigers and elephants are close to the window looking into the savannah room. However, the room is just a circle so there is still an air of disorganization to the way the art pieces are places in the room. There is also information written on the walls between the viewing windows. This last circular room will not have any music or background noise playing.
