Murder in the Museum
Investigate a mysterious crime!
That is if you find yourself in Brussels, Belgium between December 14, 2006 and
September 2, 2007!
The Royal
Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is featuring an exhibit that
showcases the various disciplines in Forensic Science and allows visitors to
play the part of the investigator.
FirearmsID.com is proud to have been able to help the
museum in this exhibit by providing a custom interactive Virtual Comparison
Microscope exercise to be an integral part of the "investigation". A
screenshot of this custom VCM exercise can be seen by clicking the thumbnail
image below.
As visitors move through the exhibit they are presented
with a crime scene, physical evidence and clues to help determine, "who
killed the museum director?". At the Laboratory, museum patrons
will attempt to correctly match cartridge case samples on the Virtual Comparison
Microscope. If successful, a secret code is discovered that allows
the visitors to continue on in the investigation.
The museum's press release for the exhibit reads as:
 Murder
in the Museum - from 14 December 2006 till 2 September 2007
Investigate a mysterious crime!
Monday 9.15 am. Our director has been discovered murdered in his
office. What happened and why?
Mission: Play the part of the investigator. Subject the crime scene
to a thorough analysis. Enter a professional laboratory and follow
the traces (objects, prints, blood stains, corpse…).
Unmask the murderer and bring him to justice.
Get acquainted with a fascinating and multifaceted universe:
criminalistics. It applies various (natural) sciences, such as
physics, chemistry, biology, anatomy, ballistics, to assist the
Judiciary in its quest to find out whether the suspect is guilty or
not.
Murder in the Museum is an informative, exciting and interactive
exhibition that captures everybody’s imagination!
More information:
www.naturalsciences.be |
Be sure to visit the museum's website at the address above
to learn more about this exciting exhibit. We at FirearmsID.com are
honored to have been able to play an important role in demonstrating to all of
the would-be sleuths in Belgium and Europe the outstanding forensic discipline of
Firearm and Toolmark Identification!
I want to again thank Erik Dahlberg of Denmark for
creating this awesome version of the FirearmsID.com Virtual Comparison
Microscope for the museum. Erik has faithfully been an integral part of
FirearmsID.com over the last several years and has contributed his time and
talents without hesitation.
Scott Doyle
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