Frozen Forms
On view November 15, 2024 – April 6, 2025
Patricia B. Wolf Family Galleries
Frozen Forms fills the museum’s first-floor family galleries with giant sculptures and playscapes where visitors are encouraged to play, learn, and imagine within the context of Alaska’s winter mainstay: snow.
Created in collaboration with Collective Paper Aesthetics, a Netherlands-based architectural design group, an installation of large sculptures evoke ice crystal formations found in snow: stellar dendrite, needle, and capped column. While snowflakes’ crystalline structure forms through bonded water molecules, these forms are shaped by interlocking modular components made of recycled cardboard.
The exhibition also features hands-on drawing and building activities, encouraging learners of all ages to engage with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) principles, inspired by snow and ice crystal geometry.
About Collective Paper Aesthetics
Collective Paper Aesthetics is a design studio founded by architect and designer Noa Haim. The studio specializes in creating interactive installations and architectural-scale structures using modular, sustainable paper components.
Program Events
Members Only: Family Night
6 - 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 — In-Person
Current museum members are invited for a fun evening after hours. Enjoy members only access to Frozen Forms, the Discovery Center and games in the...
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