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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

By nicolebremernash July 18, 2011, 1:49 AM PDT

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Wardrobe

Narnia exhibition: Wardrobe

ntC.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia has enchanted children and adults for decades. The success of the recent movie series introduced a new generation to the wonders of Narnia, and reignited a love of reading the fantasy novels.

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ntThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition is currently at the Louisville Science Center in Kentucky through September 18, 2011, and at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland through September 25, 2011. I recently checked out the exhibition at the Louisville Science Center. You enter the exhibit through the wardrobe.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Through the wardrobe

Narnia exhibition: Through the wardrobe

ntVisitors glimpse the world of Narnia through the large wardrobe.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: C.S. Lewis's office

Narnia exhibition: C.S. Lewis's office

ntThe traveling exhibit begins with a look at author C.S. Lewis’s office items. During the 1939 evacuation of 827,000 British school children, Lewis housed several children from London in his country home — just as the Pevensie children were evacuated to the country in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: What keeps a writer going

Narnia exhibition: What keeps a writer going

ntSome of the items Lewis kept on his writing desk.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: The Dawn Treader

Narnia exhibition: The Dawn Treader

ntAs children, Lewis and his brother created an imaginary world. “Boxen” bears a striking resemblance to Narnia. Lewis drew this ship, which is similar to The Dawn Treader, to accompany a Boxen story.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Oh, to be a prince

Narnia exhibition: Oh, to be a prince

ntFirst editions of Prince Caspian

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Prince Caspian's battle armor

Narnia exhibition: Prince Caspian's battle armor

ntMany of the items are replicas, but Prince Caspian’s battle armor is a costume from the movie.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Deforestation

Narnia exhibition: Deforestation

ntLeave it to the Louisville Science Center to create fun, educational programming that highlights the real science behind any imaginary setting. Special programming for the Narnia exhibit includes Winter in July and intriguing science experiments. When you’re there, be sure to check out the blubber glove experiment. Put your hand in icy water, then put on a specially designed glove filled with cooking lard. The water isn’t nearly so cold with the blubber glove protecting your hand.

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ntThe exhibition itself offers many looks at the real science behind Narnia. Sure, there probably isn’t an enchanted land hiding in the back of your closet (go ahead and clean it out while you’re back there checking), but consider the ways the Narnians had to adapt to endless winter. Habitat change happens in Narnia and on Earth.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Dinner

Narnia exhibition: Dinner

ntEnjoy dinner with the Beavers (or at least check out these movie props from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe).

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: The Beavers

Narnia exhibition: The Beavers

ntThe enchanting Mr. and Mrs. Beaver

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Ice Throne

Narnia exhibition: Ice Throne

ntVisitors may consider their own icy hearts while sitting in this replica ice thrown. Science tie-in: real ice palaces do exist. Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna had the first ice palace built in St Petersburg, Russia in the winter of 1739.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Fossils

Narnia exhibition: Fossils

ntThough Jadis (the White Witch) used magic to turn her enemies to stone, nature works it’s own magic by making fossils. Visitors may touch this real, fossilized cave bear tooth.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Badger

Narnia exhibition: Badger

ntOf course, Jadis’s magic makes a better stone fossil than nature.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Glenstorm

Narnia exhibition: Glenstorm

ntThe magic of the Narnia movies is the amount of detail necessary to bring Lewis’s land to life. This is the make-up bust of the Centaur Glenstorm.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Minotaur

Narnia exhibition: Minotaur

ntMake-up artists use these busts to get every detail right.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Centaurian guards

Narnia exhibition: Centaurian guards

ntThis image doesn’t do justice to the level of detail and the sheer size of the Centaurian guards.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Centaur

Narnia exhibition: Centaur

ntLooking up at a Centaur

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: King Miraz

Narnia exhibition: King Miraz

ntPrince Caspian must fight King Miraz to reclaim the throne. Miraz’s armor is a real movie costume from Prince Caspian.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Telmarine Lords' chair

Narnia exhibition: Telmarine Lords' chair

ntThis Telmarine Lords’ chair features intricate engraving.

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Narnia exhibition connects great stories with real science

Narnia exhibition: Catapult

Narnia exhibition: Catapult

ntPerhaps the most fun and engaging part of the exhibit is the working catapult. The Louisville Science Center has staff and volunteers trained to set it up and give brief lessons on catapults, castles, and the history of war.

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