Inquiry & Connections
Making science connections.
The Museum challenges visitors to recognize and practice their scientific thinking skills. A variety of "hands-on, minds-on" activity stations allow visitors to experience the scientific process by asking questions, formulating hypotheses, performing experiments, examining evidence, and drawing conclusions.
Planetarium ShowS
Live PresentationS
- God's Dice
- Home Run Science
- Iceman Mystery
- Lower Your Home & Auto Fuel Costs!
- Mythic Creatures: Architeuthis, Gigantopithecus, and Dracorex
- Science Live!
- Selections from Powers of Ten
- Sound and Music
- Super-Cold Science
- The Real Adventures of Spiderman!
- Top 10 List
ExhibitS
- Investigate!
- Making Models
- Natural Mysteries
- Playing by the Rules: Fish, Fads, and Fireflies
- Take A Closer Look
- Weems Animal Sculptures
Temporary ExhibitS
LectureS
- January 19, 2009 - Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
- February 08, 2009 - Facial Recognition: The Creation of Expertise
- March 11, 2009 - Weaving Science into Sculpture
- March 25, 2009 - Solving the Stradivarius Secret
- April 29, 2009 - Radio Lab Listening Party
PodcastS
- November 14, 2008 - Journey Towards the Center of the Earth | Breathing in Boston
- October 10, 2008 - Diabetes and Gut Bacteria | Red Fish, Blue Fish
- September 19, 2008 - Who Dunnit?
- September 28, 2007 - Genographic Project | Velociraptor or Turkey?
- June 15, 2007 - Studying Chimpanzees
VideocastS
- January 07, 2009 - Top Science Stories of 2008
- October 02, 2008 - Red Fish, Blue Fish
- September 18, 2008 - High-tech Fingerprinting
- September 04, 2008 - Genes and Social Behavior in Fire Ants
- August 07, 2008 - Children's Understanding of Apologies
Special ProgramS
Design Challenges
Design Challenges, the popular program in which visitors engineer a solution using provided materials, now has its own website where visitors can browse all of the program's activities, download worksheets, and play the "Aviary Architect" interactive game.
