Alessandro Blasetti
Curator
Science Museum - Camerino University
Italy
- Exhibition
Alessandro Blasetti
Curator
Science Museum - Camerino University
Italy
The exhibition “The Black Dragon Song” (Singing Insects), produced by the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung (Taiwan), will be on display from September 24th to November 30th, 2011 at the Science Museum, Crivelli Hall, Polo Museale of Camerino University. “The Black Dragon Song” uses recycled and recyclable materials and through multimedia such as animations and games, the exhibition will illustrate the ecological and cultural importance of all singing insects. The exhibition features hypertexts and multimedia files, which will explain how the insects’ sound production mechanisms work, what morphological structures are involved in the sound and what behavioural meaning each sound has; parallel to the main event, side events will involve public on weekends during the whole duration of the exhibition.