Lakeview Museum
1125 W Lake Ave
Peoria, IL 61614
(309) 686-7000

An Exhibition to Remember!

There can be no doubt of the overwhelming importance of memory in our individual lives. We spend much of our waking lives remembering. Our ability to perform the simplest tasks relies on remembering what to do and how to do it. Our very sense of who we are rests largely in remembering where we've been, whom we've known, what we've done, and how we've felt. Memory, a major new exhibition at Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, opens to the public June 20, 2009. This traveling exhibition of over forty exhibits and demonstrations was created by the internationally acclaimed Exploratorium in San Francisco, and made possible by the National Science Foundation and the MetLife Foundation, and supported locally by Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, PSA Dewberry, and the Illinois Arts Council. The exhibition, Memory, is reflective of both personal experience and new breakthroughs in cognitive science. It explores these ideas and the equally important notion that memory is constantly changing and reshaping the way we understand our world. It reflects both personal experience and new breakthroughs in cognitive science.

In the exhibition, you can play Hoop Nightmares, a wacky basketball game that temporarily alters your body's memory of how to throw a ball. In Jukebox Memories, you can find out which top tunes of the past forty years stir your memories. Find out why your memory can hold on to thousands of facts, words, pictures, and even complicated arguments and explanations, yet stumble over a simple name or phone number. Learn why legal experts have gotten more skeptical about eyewitness testimony, and why many psychologists question "recovered" memories. By experiencing the powers and limitations of your own memory within the exhibition, your can begin to understand what memory is and how it works.