Discovery Times Square Exposition
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Discovery Times Square is an exhibition space at 226 West 44th Street in New York City
that opened June 24, 2009 and specializes in traveling exhibitions. It is one of three exhibitions that caters to Times Square
tourists (the others being Madame Tussauds
and Ripley's Believe It or Not!
).
Operated by Discovery Communications
and Running Subway Productions, it is located in Times Square
in the basement in the former printing plant area of The Times Square Building
(the former New York Times Building).
Its goal is "to create a home for traveling exhibitions that local museums might find either too large, too expensive, too nondisciplinary or too commercial for their nonprofit attention."
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
that opened June 24, 2009 and specializes in traveling exhibitions. It is one of three exhibitions that caters to Times Square
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...
tourists (the others being Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and was formerly known as "Madame Tussaud's", but the apostrophe is no longer used...
and Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims...
).
Operated by Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications, Inc. is an American global media and entertainment company. The company started as a single channel in 1985, The Discovery Channel. Today, DCI has global operations offering 28 network entertainment brands on more than 100 channels in more than 180 countries in 39...
and Running Subway Productions, it is located in Times Square
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...
in the basement in the former printing plant area of The Times Square Building
The Times Square Building
The Times Square Building, formerly known as The New York Times Building, is an 18-story building at 229 West 43rd Street in Times Square, New York City, that was the headquarters of The New York Times from 1913 through 2007....
(the former New York Times Building).
Its goal is "to create a home for traveling exhibitions that local museums might find either too large, too expensive, too nondisciplinary or too commercial for their nonprofit attention."
Exhibitions
- Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition (2009)
- Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia (2009)
- Leonardo da Vinci’s WorkshopLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
(2009) - King Tut (2010)
- Pompeii The Exhibit: Life and Death In The Shadows of VesuviusPompeiiThe city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning...
(2011) - Harry Potter: The ExhibitionHarry Potter The Exhibition-Harry Potter: The Exhibition:- Overview :Harry Potter: The Exhibition is a traveling exhibition featuring hundreds of authentic props, costumes, artifacts, and set dressings from all of the Harry Potter films...
(2011) - CSI: The ExperienceCSI: The ExperienceCSI: The Experience is a traveling exhibition about crime lab forensic science and technology inspired by the hit television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.- Development and location :...
(2011) - Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical TimesDead Sea scrollsThe Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
(2011)