
The Museum of Science is perched right on the Charles River Dam between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's easy to get there using public transportation. Just take the Green Line subway (or "T") to the Science Park station.
There's always a lot going on in the Museum of Science, which has an OMNI theater, Planetarium, 3-D digital cinema, Butterfly Garden, and more than 700 permanent, hands-on exhibits. See a full-size model of Tyrannosaurus rex in the "Dinosaurs" exhibit. Experience a lightening demonstration produced by the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator. Visit live tamarin monkeys, baby chicks, and a living hive of honey bees. Meet a robot in Cahners Computer Place. Find the Fibonacci number series in the seeds of a sunflower in "Mathematica." Touch casts of ancient human skulls in the "Human Evolution" exhibit. Step on board a full-motion simulator to journey through space, dive with dolphins, or tag along with a water molecule. And be sure to stop by the Gordon Current Science & Technology Center for a live presentation or a juggling show about nanotechnology.
The Museum of Science runs a special after-school program called the Computer Clubhouse in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab. If you're not in Boston, there's good news: this isn't just a local program! The flagship Clubhouse is based at the museum, but there are more than 100 Computer Clubhouses all over the world. Hundreds of young people in Clubhouses worldwide work with adult mentors on projects based on their own interests, creating computer-generated art, music, and video; scientific simulations; animations; kinetic sculptures and robots; and Web pages. Find out if there is a Computer Clubhouse near you at http://www.computerclubhouse.org.
Visit from Home (two sentences with web highlights)
Check out all the Museum of Science has to offer online at www.mos.org. There are podcasts, videocasts, online-only exhibits, and great opportunities to participate in citizen science.
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