Reviewers Buzzing About Brain: The Inside Story

Monday, November 22 1:12 pm

The New York Post made it the weekend’s Hot Pick. LiveScience called it “an interactive sensory feast that both surprises and stimulates.” And New York City parenting blog Mommy Poppins has labeled it “a perfect destination for…the long Holiday breaks.”

The Museum’s new exhibition Brain: The Inside Story, which opened November 20, is already earning praise as an innovative, exhilarating journey through the 21st-century brain. (Click below to watch “Today” show co-anchor Natalie Morales tour the exhibition with Museum Curator Rob DeSalle).

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“The landscape surveyed is remarkable, touching on emotion, sensation, evolutionary development, biological growth, neurotransmitters, even recent research into cyborglike innovations that merge brain and machine,” writes Edward Rothstein in the The New York Times.

In the Newark Star-Ledger, Peter Genovese cheers “plenty of interactive displays where adults and kids can take their brains for a kind of test run” and writes that visitors will “learn so much about that three-pound, mostly water brain of yours that you’ll come away with a newfound respect and appreciation for it.” (Click below to see Dr. Sapna Parikh, Fox 5’s medical correspondent, try out a few of the interactive exhibits in Brain: The Inside Story).

Others praise the exhibition’s unique use of art installations, including two pieces by Spanish artist Daniel Canogar and one by New York artist Devorah Sperber, calling the exhibition “a cool blend of science and art.”

Brain: The Inside Story “unfolds with engaging illustrations, vivid brain scan images, and brain-teaser games and interactive exhibits,” reports Alina Adams on Examiner.com. Her recommendation: “Waste no time in getting…down to the American Museum of Natural History for their newest exhibit.”