History in Motion will be staffed by retired school teachers and librarians and will make scheduled visits to Nassau, Suffolk and Queens schools. On weekends and during the summer, it will travel to community events. More than 100,000 people are expected to see it during 1998. Joshua Stoff, air and space curator at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, serves as curator for History in Motion. Each exhibit is outfitted with authentic working artifacts and sound effects.
Visitors waiting to enter the mobile museum can use three computer kiosks and watch video monitors.
Long Island and Queens-based firms were involved in developing History in Motion. Long Island University is the eighth largest private university in the United States, with more than 25,000 diverse students from the United States and abroad. The University offers nearly 400 undergraduate and graduate degree programs taught by more than 600 full-time faculty members, as well as continuing education and professional development courses. Newsday is the nation's sixth-largest metropolitan daily paper.