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The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California.Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the museum was originally located in the Palace of Fine Arts and was relocated in 2013 to Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's waterfront.
Entrance to the Science Museum of Virginia. A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of subject matter and introduced many interactive exhibits.
The McWane Science Center (formerly known as the McWane Center) is a science museum and research archive located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, United States.The state-of-the-art hands-on science center, aquarium, and 250-seat IMAX Dome Theater is housed in the historic and refurbished Loveman's department store building.
The green museum movement began in science and children's museums. Science museums found that environmental advocacy and education fit easily within their missions and programming. Children's museums saw that using green design in their inside environments created a healthy playground for their young visitors.
The museum opened in 1997 as COSI. After tax levies failed in 2006 [2] and 2007, COSI closed its doors to the public on the last day of 2007 due to lack of funding. [3] In 2008, voters approved an operating levy to reopen the facility as The Toledo Science Center. This interim name was replaced by "Imagination Station", which opened on 10 ...
Arizona Science Center, formerly the Arizona Museum of Science & Technology, was conceived in 1980 as a pilot science center by the Junior League of Phoenix. [1] The Science Center opened its doors to the public in 1984 as a small 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) storefront exhibition space located in the parking garage level of the downtown Phoenix Hyatt.
Museum environment emission reduction: Is achievable through making changes to the building envelope; such as the use of rainwater tanks, solar panels, grey water tanks, closed loop hydraulic or air pressure systems or planting trees for passive climate control.
The Springfield Science Museum is located in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the United States. Founded in 1859, the museum has operated in its current building since 1899. The building has undergone two expansions, in 1934 [1] and 1970. [2] It is also home to the country's oldest operating projection planetarium, Seymour Planetarium. [3] [4] [5]