Watching CSI

Look out east coast Fans CSI:The Exhibit is headed your way. Check out the press release.

BOSTON —This fall, Museum visitors will star in the newest edition of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation by playing the role of forensic scientists in CSI: The Experience. Inspired by the hit CBS television series and making its East Coast debut at the Museum of Science, this traveling exhibition highlights the process of scientific inquiry and real investigative techniques used to solve crimes. It opens to the public on September 30, 2007 and shows through January 1, 2008.

Visitors to CSI: The Experience are led by cast members who portray investigators on the television show, along with their real-life counterparts, through three separate crime scenes: a city alley, a suburban home, and a woodland. In each setting, visitors are challenged to identify and gather evidence, analyze materials with the help of the latest scientific and technological advances; formulate hypotheses about the crime; and confirm and communicate their findings.

CSI: The Experience features two separate crime labs where visitors can explore the state-of-the-art technology used in evidence analysis. In order to identify vehicle tracks, clothing fibers, and paint chips in the first lab, museum-goers will collect data from mass spectrometry and microscope analysis to determine where matches occur and how they contribute to the larger hypothesis. Here, visitors can also evaluate digital evidence provided by cell phones and other electronics, in addition to hard evidence such as fingerprints, blood patterns, and ammunition casings. In a second laboratory space, visitors examine forensic art as they study age progression and attempt to match an image with a victim. Throughout the exhibit, visitors can immerse themselves in diverse fields of study, such as anthropology, entomology, toxicology and hematology — the sciences vital to unraveling the mysteries of crime scene investigation.

At the end of CSI: The Experience, visitors use the scientific information they gathered to answer a series of multiple-choice questions on touch screens. After completing the survey, a case summary is generated and exhibit-goers can compare their scientific findings to those of expert crime scene investigators, concluding with a video evaluation by Gil Grissom, the lead investigator on CSI: The Experience.

CSI: The Experience was developed by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History for the Science Museum Exhibit Collaborative, with support from CBS Consumer Products, the cast and crew of the television show, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and the National Science Foundation. CSI: The Experience is an immersive, interactive forensic science exhibit related to the hit TV series that invites people to use real science to solve hypothetical crimes in an exciting multi-media environment. CSI: The Experience maintains the spirit of the popular television series and contains some graphic content. Parental guidance is suggested.

Admission to CSI: The Experience:

General Public

Timed tickets are required: $23.00 for adults, $20.50 for seniors (60+), and $19.00 for children (3 - 11). Admission to CSI includes a voucher for the main Exhibit Halls, usable on the same day or within six months of viewing the exhibition. Tickets for the general public will be available August 27.

Museum Members

Members of the Museum of Science can purchase timed tickets at a reduced rate: $5.00 for adults, $4.50 for seniors, and $4.00 for children. Tickets for members will be available August 22.

School Groups

Special pricing is available for school field trips to CSI and includes admission to the main Exhibit Halls. To plan a field trip and for more information on exhibits and programs connecting to school curricula, visit mos.org/educators. Tickets for School Groups will be available August 22.

For more information on the exhibit and complementary programs or to reserve tickets, call 617-723-2500, 617-589-0417 (TTY), or visit mos.org. The Museum of Science is wheelchair accessible.

About CBS Consumer Products

CBS Consumer Products manages the worldwide licensing and merchandising for a diverse slate of properties owned or controlled by the CBS Corporation. Additional information is available by visiting www.CBS.com. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is produced by CBS Productions and Alliance Atlantis Productions Inc. in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Television.

Press Contacts:

Sofiya Cabalquinto: 617-589-0251 or scabalquinto@mos.org; Mike Morrison: 617-589-0250 or mmorrison@mos.org; Carole McFall: 617-589-0257 or cmcfall@mos.org

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