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Explore the Exhibitions
Connections: The Nature of Networks
Connections explore the new science of networks. Networks are evident everywhere and serve as a great tool for teaching science, mathematics, social studies and more! In this exhibition, state-of-the-art technology lets you investigate how the World Wide Web is like a real spider’s web, or how a school lunch room is like a school of fish.
Feedback
Pedal an airplane propeller, direct a spinning windmill and examine an antique steam engine (circa 1865) as you investigate self-sensing machines and how they work.
Hidden Kingdoms: The World of Microbes
Enjoy the nation’s largest interactive microbiology exhibition. View the millions of ordinary microorganism around us and learn how they affect our health and environment.
Marvelous Molecules- The Secret of Life
This exhibition explores the shared chemistry of living things. Find out what we have in common with plants, bacteria and marine mammals. Learn about photosynthesis, genetics and brain chemistry. Weigh yourself to determine the number of molecules in your body.
Mathematica: A World of Numbers
This is the first interactive exhibition devoted to math. Beautifully crafted by one of the nation’s leading designers, it engages visitors in exploring topology, symmetry, and geometry through thought-provoking activities.
Preschool Place
Explore and discover the natural and built world of a city in this playful environment. Plant, pick, shop, and count fruits and vegetables in a multi-ethnic market. Move foam bricks around a conveyor system, hoist them with cranes and build structures and a façade for a two-story cityscape. (Children 6 and younger)
Realm of the Atom
Discover what makes all matter matter. Examine the world’s first 3-D dynamic model of an atom magnified one billion times.
Rocket Park
This outdoor park features the Hall’s two newly-refurbished iconic rockets, surrounded by new interpretive panels and a climb-in capsule that is the same size as the original Mercury capsule. Indoors, the first Mercury capsule ever made and flown is displayed.
Science Playground (Open to all ages!)
Climb up, sled down and scamper over New York’s only science playground. This exhibition is an outdoor laboratory packed with exhibits that invite not only hands-on, but whole body participation: giant slides, windmills, water play area, light-activated kinetic sculpture, a teeter-totter, which balances a dozen kids at once, and more!
Science Technology Library
This is a multimedia library with an extensive collection of books, videos, magazines, computer software programs, Internet access, and a comprehensive Teacher Leadership Center. Members have borrowing privileges for most materials.
The Search for Life Beyond Earth
Recently, scientists have made stunning discoveries of living organisms in some of the harshest environments on Earth. This exhibition compares environments of Earth, Mars and Europa and demonstrates some of the organisms that live in extreme environments. Explore how newly acquired knowledge about the harsh environments that organisms survive and flourish in is informing our search for life in the Universe.
Seeing the Light
Journey into the world of color, light and perception with over 80 exhibits. Discover how the eye works, explore optical illusions and learn how we perceive the world around us.
Sound Sensations: The Inside Story of Audio
Customize a jazz composition, electronically change your voice, and interact with exhibits to learn how sound are produced and perceived. Please Note: Sound Sensations is currently closed and will reopen in September 2009.
The Sports Challenge
The Sports Challenge focuses on the science behind sports with super-interactive challenges and live sport demonstrations. Visitors can test their skills at baseball, surfing, tennis, drag-racing and rock climbing. Each challenge first facilitates the understanding of the science, then invites visitors to compete with themselves or other to improve their skill and score.
Technology Gallery
Surf the Internet as you tap into the World Wide Web. Explore tryscience.org and link to more than 400 science centers around the world.
New York Hall of Science Traveling Exhibition Rentals
The following large exhibitions are available to rent or lease to museums and other cultural institutions.
Charlie and Kiwi's Evolutionary Adventure
Go on an evolutionary adventure and discover the link between dinosaurs and modern birds with the new bilingual English/Spanish exhibition Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure. Using a kid-friendly storyline, Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure follows a boy named Charlie as he works on a book report about kiwis, a flightless bird found in New Zealand. Visitors will learn with Charlie how kiwis evolved by unraveling puzzles, playing games, exploring computer interactives, and observing live birds. |