Hands-on fun in the Experiment Gallery
Test out a variety of hands-on exhibits and activities exploring the worlds of physical science and mathematics. Create your own weather system, make wiggly waves with the Lariat Chain, and wonder at the intricacies of sound in the Sound Lab.
Visit the Wave Tank and watch the surf crash against a wall or roll slowly up onto shore. Operate a steam engine and learn how the High Bridge Power Plant generates our electricity. And don't leave without seeing a tornado form from a roiling cloud at your feet!
Our calculus exhibits show how to find the slope of a hill; create, graph, and run moving stories; graph your position and velocity as you walk; integrate the flow of the Mississippi; and more.
At the Activity Station, volunteers lead activities in:- Optics
- Resonance
- Magnets & Motors
- Chemical History of a Candle
- Air & Vacuum
- Electrochemistry
- Fuel Cells
- Paper Chromatography
- Crystals
- Carbon Dioxide
- Weather
- Spinning Things
- Math Marvels
- Materials Matter - It's a Nanoworld After All
- Calculus