honoluluadvertiser.com

Sponsored by:

Comment, blog & share photos

Log in | Become a member
The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Saturday, October 13, 2007

Head games

Photo galleryPhoto gallery: Brains at the Bishop Museum
Video: Brain exhibit opens at Bishop Museum

Advertiser Staff

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

A re-creation of the skull of Phineas Gage, a man whose brain was pierced by a metal rod, is part of the "BRAIN" exhibit.

Evergreen Exhibitions

spacer spacer
Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

A mannequin's head opens up in an interactive display.

DEBORAH BOOKER | The Honolulu Advertiser

spacer spacer

It's the gray stuff that matters, and the Bishop Museum's new exhibition, "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head," explains how the all-important organ works — and why it sometimes doesn't.

The hands-on exhibition opens today and features video games, virtual reality, optical illusions and interactive displays that are suitable for kids and adults of all ages.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has lent the show two objects of particular interest:

  • A human skull — circa 1300, found in Peru — that shows evidence of brain surgery;

  • A cast of a brain cavity from a triceratops that lived 70 million years ago.

    For those of us who are looking for a terrific deal — and who isn't? — admission tomorrow is just $3 for kama'aina and military as part of the Family Sunday event.

    • • •

    'Brain: The World Inside Your Head'

    Opens today, continuing through Jan. 20

    Bishop Museum's Castle Memorial Building

    9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily

    Museum admission: $15.95 general, $12.95 for those 4-12 and 65 and older; $7.95 and $6.95 for kama'aina and military; $9.95 for nonresidents accompanied by kama'aina or military; free for museum members and children 3 and younger

    847-3511

    Family Sunday

    9 a.m.-5 p.m. tomorrow $3 kama'aina and military