Category Archive for 'Exhibits'

Exhibit – Buoys Rock!

“Buoys Rock!” is an interactive map reading exhibit. It asks the visitor to interpret a ocean weather map off the Pacific Northwest coast and select the appropriate buoys (buttons) that are experiencing certain weather phenomenon.

Frontier military outposts required lines of communication to other outposts, supply depots, command centers, and field operations. The telegraph was a revolutionary form of communication in the 1870-80’s for the U.S. Army across the American frontier. Starting in 1875-76, the U.S. Army built the first 25 telegraph stations in Texas. In 1882, the U.S. Army’s […]