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New wellness exhibit for Seattle science centre
The Pacific Science Centre in Seattle, Washington, US, is to open a new wellness exhibit in autumn 2011.
Professor Wellbody's Health & Fitness Academy, as it will be known, will aim to demonstrate how personal choices can positively affect a person's health and wellbeing.
The 6,000sq ft (560sq m) exhibit - the centre's first for more than a decade - will boast "inventions, gadgets, activities and experiences that will present health as a life-long process of balancing exercise, diet, proper rest and hygiene".
Interactive exhibits will allow guests to compete in the Fitness Play Zone, dodge flying particles at the Sneeze Wall and glimpse their future self with the interactive ageing software.
The Group Health Cooperative provided a planning grant to help develop the exhibit concept, followed by a US$1 million challenge grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation contributed US$500,000 to the exhibit immediately, with the balance contingent on Pacific Science Centre reaching its fundraising goals by August 2011.
Additional early support has come from Public Health - Seattle & King County, Swedish Medical Centre, Seattle Children's Hospital, First Choice Health Network, Amgen and Bastyr University.
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