Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces - the Eugene and Clare Thaw Gift February 18, 2007

This exhibition centers on the theme of "design thinking." It displays objects such as an array of flashlights from the 1940s-1990s, showing diverse designs for portable lighting and features a 19th-century textile panel with instructions for making hand shadow figures, a cane with pull-out map, the 1940s "Silver Streak" glass iron, the "Divusumma 18" calculator, designed by Mario Bellini and a child's chair, designed by Charles and Ray Eames.