Aerospace Education Center
Your adventure awaits at the Aerospace Education Center Museum. Enjoy the history of aeronautics and see beautifully restored aircraft and artifacts representing Arkansas aviation and much more. 501-376-4629
Mid-America Science Museum
A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate, this is a hands-on museum where visitors are invited to explore at their own pace and encouraged to interact with over 100 exhibits that demonstrate the concepts of perception, energy, matter and life.
501-767-3461
Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Fernbank Museum of Natural History inspires life-long learning of natural history through dynamic programming to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its people. (404) 929-6300.
Baltimore Public Works Museum
Exhibits, videos, interactive computer challenges and Streetscape, an outdoor maze to explore the city's infrastructure underground. 410-396-5565.
Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center features full-size dinosaurs, dozens of hands-on activities and experiments, national touring exhibits, IMAX Theater, Kids Room and planetarium. 410-545-5962.
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science Greenwich
A regionally based, world-class instituition highlighting art, science and natural history in more than a dozen changing exhibitions annually. The permanent galleries feature the natural sciences encompassing regional to global perspectives.
Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT (203-869-0376)
Children's Museum of Connecticut, West Hartford
Providing rich learning experiences in science and nature to young children. The Children’s Museum includes the Travelers Science Dome at the Gengras Planetarium, Roaring Brook Nature Center, the UTC Wildlife Sanctuary, and the only science-based preschool in Connecticut, igniting curiosity through science and nature.
The Children's Museum of Connecticut, 950 Trout Brook Drive, West Hartford. CT (860-231-2824).
Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
A visit to the Pequot Museum is an adventure! Journey back in time to see and feel history come alive as never before. 860-396-6945.
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Dedicated to art, natural science and history, on 118 acres. A real working farm with animals, planetarium, unique playground, hiking trails, exhibitions featuring 5 galleries of family-oriented interactive displays. The Stamford Museum & Nature Center, 39 Scofieldtown Rd, Stamford, CT. (203-322-1646)
The Dinosaur Place, Montville
A family oriented activity center featuring activities with fossils, lifesize dinosaurs, gems, rocks and minerals, perfect for school trips, scout badges, birthdays, and family trips.
Children of all ages can dig for gems and crystals in Jackpot Mine, pan for “gold” in Thunder Creek and excavate a dinosaur skeleton in The Bone Zone.
The Dinosaur Place, 1650 Route 85, Montville, CT (860-443-4367).
The Discovery Museum and Planetarium Bridgeport
Experience the wonder of science discovery through interactive permanent and traveling exhibits, 3 floors of hands-on fun with science in the Challenger Learning Center and daily Planetarium shows, all included with admission to the museum!
The Discovery Museum, 4450 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, CT (203-372-3521)
Timexpo: The Timex Museum
The Timex Museum tells the story of Timex and its heritage dating back to the 1850s. A Time Tunnel leads to ancient mysteries. Magnificent timepieces, hands-on activities and much more. Timexpo: The Timex Museum, 175 Union Street, Brass Mill Commons, Waterbury CT (203-755-8463).
Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Fernbank Museum of Natural History inspires life-long learning of natural history through dynamic programming to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its people. (404) 929-6300.
Museum of Arts & Sciences
Featuring an artist's garret, humanist's study, scientist's workshop and enclosed animal habitat where young and old can experiment with each discipline in a fun, larger than life atmosphere. 478-477-3232.
Telfair Museums
Permanent collection of paintings, photography, sculpture, and decorative arts contains over 4,500 objects from America and Europe, dating from the 18th-20th centuries.
The National Science Center's Fort Discovery
Discover the fun of hands-on science! This 128,000 square-foot math and science center fires the imaginations by making math, science and technology come alive.
Cradle of Aviation Museum
Experience Long Island’s amazing aerospace heritage. Travel through time seeing 70 air and space crafts from hot air balloons to an actual lunar module. Don't miss the IMAX Dome Theater and the Red Planet Café.
Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd.
Garden City, NY (516-572-4066).
Galleries are open every day, 9:30-5:00
Long Island Children's Museum
12 permanent hands-on learning galleries, interactive theater performances, films, art and other special exhibitions. and a special exhibit on the physically challenged.
Long Island Children's Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY. (516-224-5800) Open Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm.
Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum is the former summer residence of William K. Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Staten Island Ferry and New York Central Railroad. 631-854-5539. www.vanderbiltmuseum.org.
Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Seaford
An interesting selection of Long Island wildlife and their habitats are on display with special presentations focusing on various subjects. Accompanying the museum is a large preserve for splendid nature walks. Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Washington Avenue between Merrick Road and Sunrise Highway, Seaford, NY (516-571-7443).
Bar Harbor Whale Museum
The Bar Harbor whale museum's gift shop offers an extensive collection of marine mammal field guides, adult and children books on marine mammal science and biology and educational toys and gifts related to the marine environment.
Castine Scientific Society dba Wilson Museum
The Wilson Museum uses its diverse collections and learning experiences to stimulate exploration of the natural history and cultures of the Penobscot Bay region and the world.
L.C.Bates Museum of Natural History and Culture
The L.C. Bates Museum houses unique natural history and culture collections. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 207-238-4250.
Nylander Museum
The museum was originally designed to house the collections of Olof O. Nylander, a self-taught naturalist from Oremolla, Skifvarps, Sweden. Tel: 207-493-4209
Penobscot Marine Museum
The principal exhibits at Penobscot Marine Museum focus on the industry of Penobscot Bay in the 19th century and illustrate what it was like to live and work on one of the great square-rigged ships in the last quarter of the 19th century, and to visit China when it truly was exotic.
The Northern Maine Museum of Maine
Large collections of marine and fresh-water sea shells, local forestry specimens and the beginnings of our herbarium. 207-768-9482.
Wendell Gilley Museum
The Wendell Gilley Museum teaches the art of bird carving and presents art exhibitions and educational programs with a special focus on people, nature and art.
Baltimore Public Works Museum
Exhibits, videos, interactive computer challenges and Streetscape, an outdoor maze to explore the city's infrastructure underground. 410-396-5565.
Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center features full-size dinosaurs, dozens of hands-on activities and experiments, national touring exhibits, IMAX Theater, Kids Room and planetarium. 410-545-5962.
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
The museum is housed in a 17,000 square foot building on its own 80-acre site and abutted by 320 acres of town- and conservation-owned land.
Egan Maritime Institute
On the premises of the Coffin School on Nantucket, the Egan Maritime Institute maintains a collection of fine art, maritime books, and artifacts related to the maritime world that have been collected by both founders and several generous donors.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is the most visited attraction at Harvard because of its historical collections, temporary exhibitions, and new permanent galleries.
Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center
From the founding of Mass Audubon in 1896, the organization has been inextricably linked with art. Named for John James Audubon, the legendary painter of American birds, Mass Audubon quite naturally was the recipient of generous gifts and bequests of artworks.
Massachusetts Air & Space Museum Inc.
The Massachusetts Air & space Museum presents an aerospace past, present, and future through physical artifacts, digital images, archival records, displays of aircraft, spacecraft, spacecraft, aerospace systems and equipment.
Nantucket Historical Association
Permanent exhibitions contain the skeleton of a forty-six foot male sperm whale, a collection of ceremonial implements and various weapons, spears, and armor from other South Seas islands, portraits of whaling captains and merchants by William Swain and James Hathaway, rare sperm whale teeth engraved by Frederick Myrick and Edward Burdett, and dazzling specimens of swifts, busks, canes, jagging wheels, coconut-shell dippers, ditty boxes, furniture tools, Arctic ivory, and plaques.
The Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Cape Cod Maritime Museum's second major exhibit explores life on Cape Cod both from European and Native Peoples' perspectives.
The Chatham Historical Society
The Chatham Historical Society, founded in 1923, features 3000 objects-paintings, decorative arts, and maritime artifacts.
Adventure Aquarium Camden
Adventure Aquarium features nearly 200,000 square feet of sea and wildlife. View over sixty different exhibits that are filled with exotic and amazing creatures.800-616-JAWS
Imagine That Children's Museum Florham Park
A hands-on 16,000 square feet museum featuring over 50 exhibits. Imagine That Discovery Museum for Children, 4 Vreeland Road, Florham Park, NJ. {973-966-8000).
Insectropolis Toms River
A unique, interactive bug museum that is both entertaining and educational for visitors of all ages.
Insectropolis, 1761 Lakewood Road, Toms River, NJ (732-- 349-7090) Located near the New Jersey shore. Only a few miles from the Garden State Parkway, easily accesible from New Jersey, Philadelphia, and New York.
Insectropolis Toms River
Insectropolis is a unique, interactive bug museum that is both entertaining and educational for visitors of all ages and interest levels. 732-349-7090
Liberty Science Center
The reinvented Liberty Science Center is different from anything you've seen before. You’ll get a new and exciting view of the natural world, explore the technology that impacts our daily lives, and leave with a new understanding of how science is shaping the future of humanity. And don't miss IMAX® Dome Theater and J.D. Williams 3D Science Theater.
Liberty Science Center, 222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ. (201-200-1000) OPEN Weekdays 9:00am-4:00pm. Weekends & Holidays: 9:00am-5:00pm.
Morris Museum Morristown
The mission of the Morris Museum is to elevate the cultural consciousness, excite the mind and enhance the quality of life by advancing the understanding and enjoyment of the visual and performing arts, natural and physical sciences, and humanities through exhibitions, performances and educational programs
Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown. NJ (973-971-3700}
New Jersey State Museum & Planetarium
Soar through the skies in the Museum’s spacious Planetarium, featuring precision projection of more than 6000 stars. The largest planetarium facility in New Jersey.
New Jersey State Museum Galleries at 225 West State Street (Department of State Building) Tenton, NJ. (609-292-6464) OPEN: Tuesday – Saturday, 9 am – 4:45 pm, Sunday, Noon – 5 pm
Admission Free except for Planetarium
The Newark Museum
The largest Museum complex in New Jersey, with 80 galleries of art and science, a mini zoo, planetarium, sculpture garden, schoolhouse and the Ballantine House, a restored 1885 mansion, a National Historic Landmark located in the heart of the Downtown Arts District of Newark. Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ. (973-596-6550)
American Museum of Natural History & The Rose Center for Earth and Space
Over 42 Exhibition Halls, the Rose Center for Earth and Space with it's famed Hayden PLANETARIUM, a giant IMAX Theater, as well as a gift shop and food court.
American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street and Central Park West, NYC. (212-769-5100)
Bodies...The Exhibition
BODIES. . . THE EXHIBITION is an educational science and anatomy exhibit that features real human bodies. Now your campers can experience the human body like never before! 1-888-507-6909.
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Enjoy action-packed, hands-on exhibits and programs in world culture and natural science. Explore people and places, the environment, music, plants, animals, and ideas from near and far in the Museum's interactive galleries.
Brooklyn Children's Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC. (718-735-4400) Wed -Sun. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat.-Sun. 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
FDNY Fire Zone
Learn about the power of fire. Climb on a real fire truck, try on bunker gear, meet a firefighter, feel a "hot" door, and learn to crawl through a smoke-filled hallway, even in the dark. Learn to identify hazards in your home, and help your parents make an escape plan. NYC. Tel: 212-698-4520.
Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum
One of the most successful ships in US History is now a national historic landmark, and one of the most unique attractions in New York City. History of the aircraft USS Intrepid, historical recreations and a display of various aircraft.
Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum, Pier 86, W46th St. & 12th Ave. NYC. (212-245-0072).
Museum of American Finance
The Museum of American Finance is the perfect starting point for your visit to the Financial District and historic Downtown New York.
New York City Center for Space Science Education
The Center for Space Science Education is dedicated to offering opportunities for exploration, engagement, and inquiry in the sciences related to space exploration.
New York Hall of Science
Explore the wonder and excitement of biology, chemistry and physics. New York City's hands-on science and technology center that features more than 400 hands-on exhibits.
NY Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY. (718-699-0005) Closed Mondays
Tuesday – Thursday 9:30 am – 2 pm
Friday 9:30 am – 5 pm (free 2 – 5 pm)
Saturday & Sunday 10 am – 6 pm (free Sunday 10 – 11 am
New York Transit Museum Brooklyn
One of the city's leading cultural institutions & the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history. The Museum explores the development of the greater New York region through the presentations of exhibitions, tours, educational programs, and workshops about the cultural, social, and technological history of public transportation.
New York Transit Museum, Corner of Boerum Place & Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn Heights, NYC (718-694-1600)
Ripley's Believe it or Not!
Located in the heart of Times Square, Ripley's offers visitors the ultimate insight into the world of the odd and bizarre. Marvel at the hundreds of weird and unusual artifacts and outrageous interactive exhibits designed to entertain the whole family.
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Today and tomorrows communications technology. Hands on activities including action as talent for TV Production, surfing the web, DVD features in the 72 seat theater. Tel: 212-833-8100.
The Edible Garden
Throughout the summer and into autumn, The Edible Garden, celebrates growing and preparing great food. Set throughout the Botanical Garden's spectacular 250-acre landscape, The Edible Garden will feature numerous vegetable gardens and multiple displays, demonstrations from food and gardening experts, celebrity appearances during four festival weekends, and exciting programs that demonstrate the bounty, economy, and nutritional value of edible plants. Proceeds benefit the Children’s Gardening program.
June 19–October 17, 2010
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road, Bronx, NYC. (718-817-8700)
The Paley Center for Media
This unique Museum (formerly known as the Museum of Television and Radio) collects radio shows, television programs, and commercial advertisements and makes that programming available to museum visitors.
The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street, NYC. (212-621-6800)
Buffalo Museum of Science
The Buffalo Museum of Science offers authentic science programming to its community, area schools and families focusing on the natural sciences. 716-896-5200.
Cradle of Aviation Museum
Experience Long Island’s amazing aerospace heritage. Travel through time seeing 70 air and space crafts from hot air balloons to an actual lunar module. Don't miss the IMAX Dome Theater and the Red Planet Café.
Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd.
Garden City, NY (516-572-4066).
Galleries are open every day, 9:30-5:00
Empire State Aerosciences Museum
Our mission is to educate, entertain and excite with experiences in Air and Space. The Museum occupies nine buildings on twenty-seven acres of land on the western perimeter of the Schenectady County Airport, an ideal environment in which to present the history of aviation, especially that which occurred in New York. Glenville, NY. Tel: 518-377-2191. For more information click on name.
Erie Canal Discovery Center
A new state-of-the-art interpretive center for the Erie Canal, focusing on the role that Lockport played in canal history. 716-439-0431.
Hudson River Museum Yonkers
The largest museum in Westchester county with a collection of 19th and 20th-century American art and cultural, social and historical material related to the Museum's historic Mansion, and home of Andrus Planetarium with weekend Star Shows.
Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY (914-963-4550)
Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum
The museum tells the story of Western New York's unique aviation and aerospace heritage through the acquisition, preservation and display of aviation artifacts. 716-858-4340.
New York City Center for Space Science Education
The Center for Space Science Education is dedicated to offering opportunities for exploration, engagement, and inquiry in the sciences related to space exploration.
Niagara Power Project's Power Vista
Features more than 50 interactive exhibits about hydroelectricity and an observation deck perched 350 feet above the Niagara River Gorge. 716-286-6661.
Niagara Science Museum
The Niagara Science Museum (NSM) is a sanctuary for the preservation and appreciation of old science instruments and philosophical apparatus.
Old Rhinebeck Aerodome
This historic museum of antique aviation features one of the largest collections of early aeroplanes in the world.
Old Rhinebeck Aerodome, 11 Norton Road, Rhinebeck, NY. (845-752-3200) The Museum is open everyday from 10am until 5pm, from June 5th through October 17th, 2010
51st Air Show season - Saturdays & Sundays - June 12 through October 17, 2010 @ 2:00 PM.
Salt Museum
Discover the industry that created the City of Syracuse and supplied the nation with salt! Explore the site of an original boiling block where brine was turned into salt. 315-453-6713.
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Today and tomorrows communications technology. Hands on activities including action as talent for TV Production, surfing the web, DVD features in the 72 seat theater. Tel: 212-833-8100.
Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Seaford
An interesting selection of Long Island wildlife and their habitats are on display with special presentations focusing on various subjects. Accompanying the museum is a large preserve for splendid nature walks. Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Washington Avenue between Merrick Road and Sunrise Highway, Seaford, NY (516-571-7443).
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
Featuring 50,000 square feet of exciting dinosaur exhibits, detailed nature dioramas, and exhibits showcasing Oklahoma’s Native American cultures both ancient and modern.405-325-4712
Erie County History Center
An organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation and presentation of the rich history of Erie and adjacent regions including Lake Erie and its maritime traditions. Venues include museums, library and a planetarium. 814-454-1813.
Franklin Institute Science Museum
The Franklin Institute has four floors of interactive environments. Philadelphia, PA. Tel: 215-448-1201. For more information click on name.
Tom Ridge Environmental Center
The Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC) is an educational center at heart, dedicated to teaching visitors about the unique 3,200 acres of Presque Isle. 814-833-7424.
Franklin Institute Science Museum
The Franklin Institute has four floors of interactive environments. Philadelphia, PA. Tel: 215-448-1201. For more information click on name.
Dublin Dr. Pepper Museum
Come visit the world's oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant, where Dr Pepper is still bottled using the original formula! Dublin, TX. 888-398-1024.
Frontiers of Flight Museum
Experience the story of those who went Higher, Faster, Farther, First in Aviation & Aerospace. 214-350-1651. Dallas, NORTH TEXAS.
Mayborn Planetarium & Space Theater
For an out-of-this-world field trip, visit the Mayborn Planetarium and Space Theater, on the campus of Central Texas College in Killeen. Tel: 254-526-1671. REGION: Bell County, South Central TX.
The Planetarium at UT Arlington
2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the introduction of the telescope to astronomy. Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy with a visit to a planetarium.
