CSI Day at Museum in Dallas, TX

At the Sixth Floor Museum, forensics students from the University of North Texas conducted "CSI Day" where they set up a crime scene and allowed patrons of the museum to gather and analyze evidence to solve the case. The students say they wanted to give people a better idea of how difficult it actually is to collect and decipher evidence. They wanted to dispel the CSI effect and attenpt to make a differentiation in people's minds between TV and real life, as far as forensics is concered. Still, they seemed to make it more interesting than the reality we talked about in class: the museum visitors simulated collecting the evidence as well as analyzing it, which does not happen in reality. I guess if they really wanted people to know how it is being a forensic scientist, they would have put them in a lab with labeled bags of "evidence." That probably wouldn't have sold many museum tickets, though.

There is a video as well:: http://www.the33tv.com/pages/content_landing_page/?CSI-Day-at-Museum=1&blockID=240259&feedID=460