What is Uniquely Human?
Pre-teens, teens, young adults and their families are the target audience for Uniquely Human. Our goal is for Uniquely Human to open a dialogue with that audience, inviting discovery and offering growth through an approach that will rely heavily on community-based outreach, partner programming, and a small-scale permanent gallery experience.
Uniquely Human will provide visitors:
- tools for supporting sustained healthy physical, mental, emotional and environmental habits;
- ways to grasp the connections between themselves, their families and the broader community;
- an understanding of links between mental and physical wellbeing that help develop resilience;
- accessible pathways to understanding identity, empathy, and strengthening tolerance and acceptance; and
- the chance to reflect, think, feel and act.
When will the Uniquely Human exhibit be complete?
At Kentucky Science Center, we put science at the forefront of everything we do – and that includes the way we develop new exhibitions. The process of developing Uniquely Human began in 2019 with a prototype exhibit of the exhibit’s Identity theme. That was followed in 2020 with a renovation of our 3rd Floor Main Gallery – Uniquely Human’s home – and a prototype of the exhibit’s Feeling theme. Our most recent prototype, Uniquely Human: Thinking, was on view through November 2022. The final version of the exhibit will be installed in Summer 2023. Guests can find more information about the final version of the exhibit, including renderings and exhibit examples, in our 3rd floor beginning November 18th.