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Design Category
Information design, 1995
Design firm
Chermayeff & Geismar Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(1996) Information Graphics: Design of Understanding
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This museum without walls invites passersby to learn about New York City’s infrastructure and how its water, electricity, sewage, trash, steam, and telephone systems work. Pedestrians peer through telescopes and look into periscopes to interact with various displays that convey information and scientific principles.