Screening Location: 4584 Vine Hill Rd, Excelsior, MN 55331
2024-25 Registration is being accepted on a waitlist basis.
Junior Explorers is sponsored though Minnetonka Community Education and offers a flexible, high-quality childcare program for preschool-aged children.
Ages 33 months (3 by Sep. 1, 2024) to 4 years old. Students who are 4 must be toilet trained
Summer Registration Opens on February 12 at 8 a.m.
Registration for Quest Summer 2025 Opens on February 11, 2025 8AM
Adult Recreational Archery
Adult Sailing
group discussions for young adults (age 30 and under) navigating the world of adulthood
Art, crafts, home decor... let's create something!
theatre, sporting events, field trips, community events
Minnetonka Preschool Knit Hat
Immerse yourself in complete silence and darkness for one hour during a session of Group Perceptual Silence. Each enrollment entitles a visitor to 1 of 5 seats in the 12x10 suspended chamber, which is globally recognized as the quietest room in the world.
"The Quietest Place on Earth" (Guinness 2005, 2012, 2021) is the Orfield Anechoic Chamber, located in Orfield Laboratories, Inc. in Minneapolis. Situated in the center of the multi-sensory design research and consulting lab, an anechoic chamber is technically defined as a room with absolute sound absorption. Measured at at an average of -13 dBA, Orfield's chamber is one thirtieth as loud as most others, which have an average measurement of 30 dBA. Metaphorically, the anechoic chamber represents a small, quiet chapel, that has become a place of silence and meditation for people from all over the world. As the most famous part of the lab, the chamber has been featured on news platforms such as NBC Today, CBS Morning, WCCO, CBC, BBC, and in feature films around the world.
Important Information:In order to respect all individuals experiences, each participant is expected to remain as silent as possible for the duration of the hour. The anechoic chamber is a dark, relatively small space. While participants will be instructed on how to leave the chamber in case of an Emergency, participants are encouraged to consider if the space is suitable for their comfort level. Following registration, participants will receive an email from Orfield Labs including a form that is required for each visitor.
The Quietest Place on Earth” (Guinness, 2004 and 2012) is the Orfield Anechoic Chamber, which lies in the center of Orfield Laboratories Inc., the world’s only independent, multi-sensory design research and consulting lab, specializing in architecture and product development.
Our building was owned by our previous clients, Sound 80 Studios, which has since been recognized as “The World’s First Digital Recording Studio.” As the birthplace of world-famous albums, such as Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” and the location that inspired the beginning of Prince’s musical career, we have long ties to the recording and art industry. Focused in the sciences of design and human perception and cognition, our focus has dovetailed well with this history, extending the building’s expertise in sound to include the sciences of Acoustics, AV, Lighting, Daylighting, Thermal Comfort, and Indoor Air Quality, the perceptual factors in design that are responsible for the human experience. We maintain the original studios of Sound 80, which are historically correct to date. We adorn our walls with the metaphors of great modern artists such as Carl Beam, the father of Modern Native-Canadian art and Doug Shelton, who refers to himself as an “Arizona Mystical-Surrealist.”
Life is a multi-sensory experience, in which the sciences of human perception and cognition are well-researched in fields that are often divided by specialized language. Our lab is a place in which education is experiential, and where the experiences of science, design, art, and spirituality inform one another. We’ll look forward to sharing it with you...
Orfield Labs
