History museums—their exhibits, sites, and programs—are emerging as promising new learning settings for informal science education. Especially in communities where museum-going families have limited access to science centers, historic sites and museums have begun answering the call for highly interactive, informal science experiences. Conner Prairie Interactive History Park in Fishers, Indiana, is in the early stages of planning Prairie Science, a major exhibit and program venue that integrates scientific activity with the time- and place-specific narratives that characterize history-learning experiences. Developed around stories settings from Indiana's past, Prairie Science will involve visitors in activities that reveal the scientific thinking that shaped everyday life then and now—from wind power to bioengineering.

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