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 and make wiggly waves with the Lariat Chain.
Check out the newest area in the gallery - Light Management. Make colored shadows on the wall and see how different materials can change how light moves. Gaze through a giant spherical lens to see your friends turn upside down.
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
- Paper Chromatography
- Carbon Dioxide
- Weather
- Spinning Things
- Math Marvels
- Materials Matter
- It's a Nanoworld After All
- Calculus
- Plastics and Polymers
- Measuring with Cat-A-Pultz
- Density
- Butterflies and the Nanoscale
- Memory Metals