CSI: The Experience
Become a Crime Scene Investigator!

7 November 2009 - 7 February 2010
Millenium Park (Millenáris) Building G (The Fogadó), 1024 Budapest, Fény utca 20-22.

The series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is going live from November 7 at Millenaris in Budapest. The interactive exhibit incorporating elements from the world’s currently most popular television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" is coming to Budapest. The travelling exhibit started its world tour in Vienna where its duration was twice extended due to popular demand.

ShowTime Budapest and RTL Klub are hosting another unique, exciting exhibit. CSI: The Experience, immerses guests in hands-on science while leading them through the challenge of solving a crime mystery. It was designed to demonstrate the most advanced technology and techniques used today by crime scene investigators to the general public. Visitors can enter a "real" crime scene, where they identify and record evidence, cooperate with their favorite characters from the hit show via video screens, as well as real-life forensic scientists. Fans will be delighted to learn that the exhibit features never-before-seen footage of CSI characters.

CSI: The Experience was developed by EMS Exhibits headquartered in Vienna, CBS Consumer Products and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. The purpose of the exhibit – besides the promotion of the CSI series - is to advance critical thinking skills through forensic investigation, scientific inquiry, and technology, and to promote public awareness of modern advances in forensic science. The interactive exhibit was awarded the Themed Entertainment Association’s Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement.

The exhibit makes it possible for everyone to become a crime scene investigator for an hour. Upon entering, visitors will be briefed via video and then directed to one of three staged crime scenes. Once on the scene, they will use their investigator’s notebook to examine the evidence and determine what they believe to be the important clues. CSI characters and real-life experts are "working" via video in the virtual labs to explain tire track comparison, blood spatter analysis, firearms technology comparison, and much more; they provide data to help the visitors examine their specific crime scene clues in the lab. They may be asked to compare or examine using a microscope tire tracks, pollen fibers, DNA, or shell casings. Finally, they will submit their reports and conclusions to supervisor Gil Grissom at the end of their investigation and learn whether they have correctly solved the case.

The exhibit received professional help from Hungarian CSI who are featured in a special section. Staff at the Budapest Police Headquarters are presenting a fictional crime scene of a homicide. The case: two people got into an argument at an office, and a shot was fired. The person shot used a knife to wound his opponent, then died, the wounded killer fled the scene. The visitors entering the office find themselves at a processed crime scene where evidence have been identified and recorded. Five types of evidence are showcased at this scene: fingerprints, weapons, DNS (haemogenetics), chemical, footprints. Visitors can view several minutes of video footage on flat screen TVs in featuring forensic experts explaining how evidence is analyzed during criminal investigations in Hungary. They talk about how to identify the culprit from a fingerprint, the perpetrator from DNA traces, the firearm used by him from a spent shell, his clothing from a single fiber, or the perpertrator's shoe from a footprint. Of course this brief glimpse does not completely illustrate the activities of crime scene investigators and forensic experts, but provides valuable insight into their everyday lives.

The exhibit is both educational and entertaining, it is recommended for all CSI series fans, and anyone interested in learning about investigative forensic science, for whom it provides quality entertainment. The exhibit, due to its nature is recommended for adults and children over 10 years of age.

CSI: The Experience. From the 7th of November 2009 every day at Millennium Park (Millenáris) Building G (The Fogadó), (1024. Budapest, Fény u. 20-24.) Official website of the exhibition: www.csi.origo.hu

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