Los Altos History Museum opens new permanent exhibition with interactive features
The Los Altos History Museum’s new permanent exhibition, “Making Connections: Stories from the Land,” truly gets down to earth, focusing on how geography and the natural environment has shaped local history.
To fully engage visitors in its stories, the exhibition also draws on another, much more recent element that was transformative to this area: technology. “Making Connections” includes numerous interactive features such as video walls, touch screens and listening stations.
The new permanent exhibition opens to the public on Feb. 11 with a celebration that includes a ribbon cutting with local officials, activities and performances curated by Mosaic America highlighting the community’s diversity.
The interactive exhibition not only looks at the many people who have lived on the land, as historical...cont.
Items on display in the “Creek” section of the permanent exhibition at the Los Altos History Museum on Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
Elisabeth Ward, executive director of the Los Altos History Museum, speaks to assembled media at the opening of the museum’s permanent exhibition in Los Altos on Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
A prototype of a klystron (a type of vacuum tube that was used to amplify radio frequencies) invented by Russell and Sigurd Varian on display in the Los Altos History Museum’s permanent exhibition in Los Altos on Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
