CSI: The Experience

CSI: The Experience, a museum event that is making its way across the U.S. will be making one of its stops at the Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway St. San Antonio TX, 78209. The price of Admission being ($6-$8) surcharge on top of regular Witte admission ($7-$10). The exhibit immerses guests in a hands-on experience into the world of forensic science while leading you through the steps agents go through on the show.

Lab Microscope Lab 1

Tools and Technology

1.     -Video monitors with scenes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actors and real-life scientists

2.     -Microscopes

3.     -Magnifiers, templates

4.     -Computer Database

5.     -PC with touch screen technology

6.     -UV light sources

7.     -Cell phone seizure kit

8.     -Chemistry equipment

9.     -DNA instrument systems

10. -Ballistics Identification systems and bullet trap

With these tools to their disposal guests are encouraged to take the challenge and see if they have what it takes to step up to the plate and solve the crime with the same methods as crime scene investigators and forensic scientist.

After my visit to the Witte Museum I immediately felt like Sherlock Holmes put me on the case I’ll find the culprit! After that experience anything was possible thanks to the wonders of science and technology the interactive exhibit, which is based on the CBS hit TV show opened its doors to the San Antonio community for the public on Fall 2013 and has not disappointed. 

Autopsy Room

The exhibit is built around three crime scenes, First you make your way into the exhibit and are immediately placed into the briefing room where show creator, Anthony E. Zuiker, greets you. Next you are briefed on the crimes by none other than actor William Peterson who plays detective Gill Grissom on the hit TV series and a real-life forensic scientist briefs you on the tools that will be used. Finally you’ve made it you’ve been given the green light and are now on the CASE! Guests are assigned to a scene (House Collider, Who Got Served?, and No Bones About It) it is your job to unravel the mystery behind these deaths and tragedies keep an open mind and remember let the evidence speak for itself. Once you have finished you are taken to Lab 1 where you are able to analyze and strategize your evidence using the latest in forensic technology. In Lab 2 you map out your plan of action with more equipment and even an Autopsy room to get under the skin and find any hidden clues. The dead can’t speak for themselves so its time to visit Grissom and submit your final analysis find out if you were able to correctly analyze your evidence and catch the killer. I highly recommend any student here at UTSA to visit this science wonder and see if you got what it takes to crack the case at CSI!