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| 75 inch diameter Glacial Earth Model "A World of Ice Exhibit" Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Mashantucket, CT |
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| The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center is a newly constructed, state-of-the-art complex housing the archaeology and ethnology collection of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe. The largest Native-owned institution of its kind, The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center explores the history of the Pequot Indians who have lived in southeastern Connecticut for more than 11,000 years. The permanent exhibit, which begins in the present day, steps back intime 18,000 years to the era when Mashantucket was covered by glacial ice, and then gradually moves forward in time. |
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| To visually present these chronological steps on a global scale, The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe contracted Band, Inc. for the design, fabrication and installation of a 75 inch diameter, raised relief Earth model to serve as the centerpiece of its “A World of Ice” exhibit gallery. To depict the advances and retreats of glaciers, glacial lakes, sea ice, coastal land, land bridges and changes in time vegetation on a global scale, Band, Inc. proposed an animated fiber optic lighting display precisely time sequenced via an electronic timer. Band subcontracted with Fiber Optic Systems, Inc. of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey for the development, production and installation of eight (8) custom fiber optic animation systems employing 10,000 2mm (millimeter) fibers. |
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After several months of research, fabrication and testing, the globe (built and painted by Band) was prepared for delivery and installation at the Museum which entailed lifting and lowering the 1000 pound globe, rotary drive system and steel frame based over an existing, permanent handrail into a 48 inch deep floor well. Click on image to see the 360° QTVR virtual tour of the "World of Ice" exhibit. |
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