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4MariaC@gmail.com

www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org

Venue Confirmed:

• June - August 2009: Children's Museum of Manhattan (New York, NY)

Venue Open:

• September - December 2010
• January - April 2010
• May - August 2010

Past Venue:

• September - December 2008: Insights El Paso Science Msueum (TX)
• January - April 2008: Don Harrington Discovery Center (Amarillo, TX)
• April - July 2008: Atomic Testing Museum (Las Vegas, NV)

michaelr@discoverycentermuseum.org

http://www.discoverycentermuseum.org/exhibits/rent.php

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Body Carnival: The Science and Fun of Being You uses carnival-themed components to explore the connections between perception and laws of physics as related to the human body. Eighteen components invite visitors to crawl through a giant artery to see and hear the effects of plaque build-up on blood flow, test their balance as they walk through the 10-foot Dizzy Tunnel, try on a pair of vision-distorting goggles and discover how sight affects the ability to walk straight, experiment in the House of Color with different sources of light, “hear” through their bones and muscles while learning how these transmit sound, and more.

Building Brainstorm, which was developed with the Center for Architecture Foundation, creates a fantasy architecture studio in which children ages 5-12 & their families research & explore a range of building design challenges. Kids & adults experiment with building materials, explore engineering problems & investigate how their choices about light, form, structure and organization can impact a building's design.

Visitors:

• Build 3-D models with architectural blocks
• Create 3-D crawl-through structures using geometric frames & fabric
• Design their own layouts for a family apartment or house
• Transform a home's interior using a computer design game
• Match 2-D geometric magnetic shapes to Shanghai's dramatic skyline
• Experiment with light & space at a window research station Building Brainstorm is trilingual (English, Spanish, French), meets national curriculum standards in design, problem-solving, social studies & the visual arts.

Venue Confirmed:

• Summer 2009: New York Hall of Science (Queens,NY)
  
• Fall 2009: Miami Science Museum (FL)
  
• Winter/Spring 2010: North Museum of Natural History & Science (Lancaster,PA)
  
• Fall 2010: Orlando Science Center (Orlando, FL)
  
• Winter/Spring 2011: Minnetrista (Muncie, IN)
  
• Summer 2011: Museum of Nature and Science (Dallas,TX)
  
• Summer 2012: Nebraska State Museum (Lincoln, NE)
  
• Fall 2012 and Winter/Spring 2013: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
  

Venue Open:

• Fall 2011
  
• Winter/Spring, 2012
  
• Summer & Fall 2013
  
• Winter/Spring, Summer & Fall 2014
  

Charlie and Kiwi's Evolutionary Adventure is an original, focused experience that invites visitors to:

• see evidence of evolutionary connections between dinosaurs and birds
• enjoy the story of Charlie, whose curiosity leads to his understanding of how evolution works
• engage in activities about variation, inheritance, selection, time and adaptation (VISTA), key evolutionary concepts.

The exhibition is organized into three parts:

Story Theater
Charlie and Kiwi's adventure unfolds in an intimate theater on a giant digital storybook screen. Audiences travel back in time during the 13minute video, Charlie and Kiwi's Evolutionary Adventure, joining Charlie and his great, great, great, great grandfather as they discover how and why the flightless kiwi is still a bird. Through the charming drawings by Peter Reynolds, award- winning illustrator of Judy Moody and other children's books, visitors see how Charlie comes to understand the origins of birds and why they are all so different from each other.

Exhbits

• Intro Panel - See how life changes over time. Flamingos! Penguins! Robins! Eagles! They're all birds but they look so different. Travel back in time and join Charlie and Kiwi on their Evolutionary Adventure.
• Charlie's World Vignette - Find where kiwis are from on the map of New Zealand and see a real, modern-day kiwi (stuffed) and a fossil replica of Archaeopteryx (a prehistoric bird).
• Which is a Bird? Which is a Dinosaur? The Bones Show It - See evidence that dinosaurs are the ancestors of modern birds by viewing the homologous bones of a bambiraptor (a dinosaur), an archaeopteryx (one of the first birds) and a modern crow.
• The Clue of the Matching Bones Puzzle - Find where the matching bones go in this puzzle: a meat-eating dinosaur, early bird and modern bird. Three special bones (the wishbone, toes and hip bone) show scientists that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
• Why is a kiwi like a kiwi? Or How Evolution Works - Did birds really come from BIG dinosaurs like this? How could a dinosaur evolve into a bird? Is evolution like tadpoles changing into frogs?
• Dino to Bird - A computer-based interactive allows visitors to speed up time so they can see the evolution of birds happen with their own eyes.
• Finches Puzzle - This puzzle shows how finches have adapted to a variety of environments. Put the finches in the forest where they can find a meal.
• Natural Selection of Ground Finches - A computer-based interactive allows visitors to measure the beaks of finches that lived on the Galapagos Islands. See why the finches with larger beaks, that enabled them to open large tough seeds during hot, dry weather conditions, went on to reproduce.
• Meet the Budgies - Observe differences in live birds of the same species by examining the colors, shapes and sizes of their beaks, legs, and feet.
• Moa Bird Bone Dig - Use the tools (brush and wooden sculpting tool) to find fossils (half-skull and femurs of Moa birds) hidden inside the rock.

Discovery Box Area
Twelve discovery boxes enhance understanding of evolutionary concepts with activities, puzzles, fossil bird bones and skulls.

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• Spring 2011
• Summer 2011
• Fall 2011
• Winter 2011

$25,000

Venue Confirmed:

• January 15, 2010 - May 21, 2010: Muncie Children's Museum (IN)
• June 14, 2010 - September 17, 2010: Atlanta Children's Museums (GA)
• September 31, 2010 - December 31, 2010: ECHO Lake Aquarium & Science Center (Burlington, VT)
• January 17, 2011 - July 15, 2011: Museum of York County (Rock Hill, SC)

Venue Open:

• Fall 2011
• Winter 2011
• Spring 2012
• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012

The popularity of television shows like COPS, Law & Order and CSI demonstrates the public's fascination with solving crimes and bringing criminals to justice. Engage your visitors in an interactive experience and unleash their inner Sherlock Holmes with Crime Lab Detectives. A burglary has occurred at the Johnson' house.

In Crime Lab Detectives your visitors are the lead detectives. They are challenged to examine the various clues, such as cloth fiber on a picket fence and tire marks, which will be useful in solving the crime. Families are encouraged to approach the exhibit as a team while students may explore it on their own or in groups. The accompanying Detective Notebook will help guide them through the process. The exhibit offers two solution tracks presenting a challenge to visitors of all ages. Your visitors will have to use scientific reasoning skills such as observation, classification and analysis while evaluating evidence, making inferences, problem solving and finally drawing conclusions.

Crime Lab Detectives cultivates the use of communication skills, teamwork, logical thinking, data organization and debate in a creative role-playing environment Forensic Science concepts such as the study of fingerprints, chromatographs, DNA, insect lifecycles, tire marks, hair analysis, thread comparison and handwriting analysis are all covered in their pursuit of the culprit.

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Venue Open: Summer 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013 and beyond

Letting curiosity and inquiry be their guides, visitors explore familiar buildings and locales from the Curious George book series and PBS KIDS® television series in Curious George: Let's Get Curious! The exhibit presents key concepts in science, math, and engineering, which are woven and layered throughout the exhibit.

Activities invite visitors of all ages to learn like George through direct experience and problem solving! Upon entry to the exhibit, visitors find themselves on an urban street and are transported to the neighborhood in which Curious George lives with his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Families find themselves surrounded by familiar places and faces, while encountering new challenges and ideas. The show's supporting characters appear throughout the exhibit, helping to provide context, deliver parent and take-home messages, and inject humor.

Activities have multigenerational appeal and are targeted toward children ages 3-7, families, and school groups. Key areas include:

• Exhibit Entry: Visitors find themselves on an urban street and meet George who*with a bunch of balloons in hand*is clinging by foot to the top of a traffic light.
  
• Apartment Building: Families move George on a pulley to help him wash the apartment windows. Inside, they manipulate objects and explore the properties of light, shadow, color, and shape to create dynamic displays in the building's windows. In the lobby, visitors can open the tenants' mailboxes to reveal different effects, games, and mechanical toys.
  
• Sidewalk Produce Stand: Families sort produce at a charming sidewalk produce stand and play the roles of customer or salesperson as they explore shape, sorting, weighing, and counting with colorful fruit and vegetable props.
  
• Construction Site: Visitors encounter a construction zone in the middle of George's neighborhood. Oodles of materials invite children to design and build structures, from small to tall, 2D to 3D. Children work together to move materials using conveyer belts, pulleys, and levers.
  
• Park: The park welcomes infants, toddlers, and adults, providing a spot to rest, and special interactives for the youngest visitors. A full-size huggable George is here, too.
  
• Mini Golf: Visitors putt their way through three miniature golf holes, experimenting with physics, engineering, and math in the process.
  
• Rocket: Children climb up the rocket and peek out a porthole to look at their families below and have their picture taken to e-mail home.
  They'll even see George floating in space with his space suit! They then arrive back to earth via a slide.
  
• Farm: Visitors will experience the power of wind and cause-and-effect as they use wind to move a collection of windmills, whirligigs, windsocks, and wind chimes. They can build their own whirligigs to test and take home. Plush farm animals in pens are located just outside the barn for children to care for and cuddle.
• Retrospective: Inside this museum, the history of the Reys and their creative work will be told through interactive displays of text and images, photos, sketches, vintage and current merchandise and other artworks.

travelingexhibits@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/curious-george/

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Venue Open: Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2014 and beyond

Letting curiosity and inquiry be their guides, visitors explore familiar buildings and locales from the Curious George book series and PBS KIDS® television series in Curious George: Let's Get Curious! The exhibit presents key concepts in science, math, and engineering, which are woven and layered throughout the exhibit.

Activities invite visitors of all ages to learn like George through direct experience and problem solving! Upon entry to the exhibit, visitors find themselves on an urban street and are transported to the neighborhood in which Curious George lives with his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Families find themselves surrounded by familiar places and faces, while encountering new challenges and ideas. The show's supporting characters appear throughout the exhibit, helping to provide context, deliver parent and take-home messages, and inject humor.

Activities have multigenerational appeal and are targeted toward children ages 3-7, families, and school groups. Key areas include:

• Exhibit Entry: Visitors find themselves on an urban street and meet George who*with a bunch of balloons in hand*is clinging by foot to the top of a traffic light.
  
• Apartment Building: Families move George on a pulley to help him wash the apartment windows. Inside, they manipulate objects and explore the properties of light, shadow, color, and shape to create dynamic displays in the building's windows. In the lobby, visitors can open the tenants' mailboxes to reveal different effects, games, and mechanical toys.
  
• Sidewalk Produce Stand: Families sort produce at a charming sidewalk produce stand and play the roles of customer or salesperson as they explore shape, sorting, weighing, and counting with colorful fruit and vegetable props.
  
• Construction Site: Visitors encounter a construction zone in the middle of George's neighborhood. Oodles of materials invite children to design and build structures, from small to tall, 2D to 3D. Children work together to move materials using conveyer belts, pulleys, and levers.
  Park The park welcomes infants, toddlers, and adults, providing a spot to rest, and special interactives for the youngest visitors. A full-size huggable George is here, too.
  
• Mini Golf: Visitors putt their way through three miniature golf holes, experimenting with physics, engineering, and math in the process.
  
• Rocket: Children climb up the rocket and peek out a porthole to look at their families below and have their picture taken to e-mail home.
  They'll even see George floating in space with his space suit! They then arrive back to earth via a slide.
  
• Farm: Visitors will experience the power of wind and cause-and-effect as they use wind to move a collection of windmills, whirligigs, windsocks, and wind chimes. They can build their own whirligigs to test and take home. Plush farm animals in pens are located just outside the barn for children to care for and cuddle.
• Retrospective: Inside this museum, the history of the Reys and their creative work will be told through interactive displays of text and images, photos, sketches, vintage and current merchandise and other artworks.

travelingexhibits@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/curious-george/

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Dinosaurs! features seven, half-sized roaring robotic dinosaurs including the king – Tyrannosaurus rex – Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Dimetrodon, Stegosaurus and a mother Apatosaurus protecting her newly hatched babies. Take visitors beyond the bones through a primordial swamp to see how these prehistoric creatures may have looked, and sounded, when they roamed the earth millions of years ago. Exhibit includes seven animatronic units, air compressor, plus silk plants, trees, wooden stanchions and decorative mulch to create your own primordial swamp.

• Austin Children's Museum: September 24, 2011 - January 16, 2012
• Available Spring 2012 and after

Crossing the threshold of this exhibit means traveling back in time to explore the Age of the Dinosaurs! As visitors move through the exhibit, they encounter unfamiliar landscapes, touchable dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes, and opportunities to investigate clues about what the dinosaurs left behind. This exhibit builds on the popular fascination with dinosaurs and includes science activities to challenge all ages. The exhibit features three distinct sections: Land of Fire (a warm dinosaur habitat), Land of Ice (a cold dinosaur habitat), and a Field Research Station (complete with a Big Dig component). While the warm environment is based on content that is familiar to most visitors, the cold environment incorporates recent scientific research about dinosaurs that lived in cold climates like Alaska. Science inquiry skills are essential in the Field Research Station as visitors uncover dinosaur bones in a dig station and examine fossils to identify dinosaurs. Each section of the exhibit is divided by a series of low walls that give adults visual access to the entire exhibit while keeping each section distinct and autonomous. Extensive and detailed muraling throughout the exhibit ensures an immersive, environmental aesthetic.

astevenson@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/dinosaurs2/

15,000 sq ft

• Cincinnati Museum Center (2009)
• St. Louis Science Center (2009 - 2010)
• Kansas City Union Station (2010)
• Detroit Science Center (2011)

6,000 sq ft

• Science North (2010)
• Bishop Museum (2011)

5,000 sq ft

• Witte Museum (2010)
• Museum of Nature & Science, Dallas (2010 - 2011)

3,000 sq ft

• Cincinnati Museum Center (2010)

Dinosaurs Unearthed is a traveling dinosaur exhibition company that offers a range of immersive experiences designed to engage and entertain audiences. With proven success across North America, our exhibitions have been known to generate great excitement and exceed attendance projections. Large or small, indoor or outdoor, we are passionate about creating comprehensive, story-driven exhibitions.

Dinosaurs Unearthed combines lifesized animatronic dinosaurs, full-scale skeletons, fossils, interpretive content and interactive activities in a naturalistic indoor setting. The customized approach we take to exhibition staging has earned praise from our clients and allowed us to consistently generate results that exceed expectations. From the pre-production site visit to our meticulous setup and strike, our people are driven to stage a product that meets the needs of your audience, your goals and your space. Our approach ensures your experience working with us is as seamless as your guests' experience visiting the exhibition.

In addition to custom design and exhibition production, we offer support materials in marketing, media relations and educational content to assist in program development. Combine this with an on-hand team of experts that includes exhibition designers, paleontologists, graphic and 3D designers, landscapers, lighting experts, technologists and troubleshooters, and you'll see how we've built an extraordinary product and a solid reputation. With a range of complete packages customized to suit any venue, we deliver the excitement and science behind dinosaur discoveries.

Venues Open:

• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012
• Winter/Spring 2013
• Summer 2013
• Fall 2013
  

Venue Confirmed:

• June - September 2011: Springs Preserve (Las Vegas, NV)
• October 2011 - April 2012: Sawmill Museum (Clinton, IA)

Exploring Trees Inside and Out will help children discover nature through multiple perspectives and will inspire them to get outdoors, explore the wonders, and develop connections with the natural world. While visiting the exhibit children can experience a glimpse of the wonders that await them outside their own backyards and neighborhoods. These interactive exhibits provide an innovative visual-spatial experience designed for whole body, open ended participation to raise the awareness and understanding of trees.

While visiting the exhibit children will be able to:

• Explore the heart of a tree trunk
• Jump into a giant bird's nest
• Crawl through a giant tree structure
• Hear the sounds of animals that live in the forest
• Soar over the tree tops like a giant bird with the blue screen experience (Complete with costumes!)

Visitors will be given the opportunity to explore and discover many aspects of trees from the inside out, from roots to leaves, as a habitat for other living things and as a resource for people. The exhibit serves as an "experience" about trees that visitors will be able to transfer to the out-of-doors at home, at school, in the park or on a hike in the woods.

Some exhibit elements include:

• Climbing Tree -- Larger than life, the trunk invites children and adults to enter and discover that a tree is an amazing, living thing.

• Sensation stations -- Throughout the exhibit are a myriad of activity opportunities, including Scents and Sounds of Nature, and Art in Nature, that will help advance the messages about trees that permeate the exhibit and to sharpen observation skills to look at trees in new ways.

• Giant Leaf, Leaf and Slide Pile -- From the canopy, visitors will discover they can actually climb inside a giant leaf. From here, they will be able to hear, see and feel a leaf as if they were a very small bug.

• Giant Acorn -- Children can enter a larger than life and discover the baby oak with a ready packed "lunch" all ready to grow. Children can help the little acorn germinate and begin its growth to a mighty oak.

• Dancing with Trees -- Guests can wear animal costumes including a butterfly and a squirrel. The backgrounds represent several difference habitats where trees grow and animals live. Children can soar over a meandering stream or climb to the tree tops in a forest.

• Wood Works -- A construction area work station with many different pieces of wood in various sizes and shapes. Families can work together to build unique structures, bird houses or other buildings, fanciful or realistic.

Children and families will leave with a more defined understanding of the importance of trees and an elevated appreciation of trees and forests in their neighborhood and throughout the world. Most of all, the exhibit will be a dynamic springboard for visitors to take their experience outside. Leaving the exhibit, guests see the calls to action - Extend your adventure outside. Explore the wonder of trees.

Score a touchdown with Football! This exhibit brings all the excitement and experience of the game of football while teaching your visitors about the science that makes it all possible. Learn what they truly mean when they say someone has a "rifle arm" while your visitors test their throwing skills in the Passing Cage area. See if any of your visitors can match the speed of an NFL running back and learn the ideal trajectory for kicking a field goal.Football covers everything from the history of the game to the equipment to the cutting edge medical technology used to prevent and treat common injuries.

Football is composed of 9 different zones each addressing a different aspect of the game, from the physics of tackling to the balance needed for cheerleading. Each zone features a mixture of artifacts, text, videos and hands-on activities. Football provides the perfect opportunity to introduce your visitors to the science, mathematics and technology (SMT) content behind the game through interactive exhibits such as the Grip Test, Balance Board and Reaction Timer. Football allows your visitor to become part of the game. So what are you waiting for? Put your helmet on and get in there!

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randrews@fi.edu

www.fi.edu/exhibitservices

Past Venues:

• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
  
• Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ
  
• Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI
  
• Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
  
• Mayborn Museum, Waco, TX
  

Call or email for availability... Available through Fall 2013

Builders of all ages are invited to explore, build and play in LEGO® Castle Adventure! In this exhibit kids and their families are transported to a LEGO kingdom where they too can become master castle builders, using one of the greatest building materials of all time - LEGO bricks.

• Build, Build, Build! - Builders of all ages and skill levels can construct castles, learn about real-world castles and their building secrets, and plan their ideal castle's defenses. The Builders Guild is divided into three age-appropriate build areas.
  
  • Apprentice Builders (toddlers) can build using soft foam LEGO bricks.
    
  • Journeyman Builders (ages 3-6) build with LEGO Duplo bricks.
    
  • Master Builders (ages 7 and up) can create designs with brick paper and then build using classic LEGO bricks.
    
• Explore a Giant Castle - Explore the inside of the royal castle full of LEGO brick decorations, the king and queen's thrones, and secret passageways.
  
• Aim a Catapult - Virtually build a fortress wall on screen and test its strength with a LEGO catapult.
  
• Defend the Castle Walls - Climb into a lookout tower topped with a mini figure guard and slide back down to the ground or stroll along the castle's wheelchair accessible battlement wall.
  
• See a LEGO dragon - In the dragon's cave, children and adults can create and share their own fantastical stories that feature castles as the setting.
  
• Design and Build Topiaries - Using a colorful array of green bricks, children can plan and create their own outdoor courtyard landscapes. Large LEGO brick topiary models are on display to inspire young builders.

Deep in the forests of Palenque, Mexico an archaeological team has mysteriously disappeared. What happened to them? Is it related to their search for the jade medallion, thought to be buried in the temple? In their haste to escape, they left behind their equipment and a word of warning to all who come after.As members of the next archeological field crew your student archaeologists must investigate the dig site and hopefully solve the Mystery of the Mayan Medallion. It is their job now to sort through what information the original team left behind in their Field Stations and further investigate the Mayan ruins.

While exploring the various areas of the exhibit your visitors will learn about the culture of the Mayans and the science behind Archaeology.

• Within the Tomb Area they can explore a recreated archaeological dig.
• The Sarcophagus teaches them about the forensics of Archaeology.
• Inside the Observatory Area they can discover the role that Astronomy played in the Mayan culture and also about the different gods that played important roles in the lives of the Mayans.
• Underneath the Archaeology Tent they can further investigate their finds and learn how to translate Mayan glyphs.
• Within the Astromathematics Tent they will learn about the Mayan counting system, and how the Mayans built temples to line up with the sun's rays.
• Housed in the Biology Tent is the key to survival within the Mayan jungle. They will learn what foods the Mayans cultivated and ate. More importantly they will find out about the different dangerous animals that inhabit the jungle.
• Finally, after all their intrepid exploration, the mystery will be revealed to your visitors in the Treasure Revealed area.

Past Venues:

• National Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
  
• Public Museum of Western Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI
  
• Mayborn Museum Complex, Waco, TX
  
• Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
  

Call or email for availability... Available Spring 2011 and beyond

Living true to its mission to create extraordinary learning experiences, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has partnered with the world's foremost map expert, The National Geographic Society, and the most advanced producer of new mapping technology, the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), to create a compelling international traveling exhibit, National Geographic MAPS: Tools for Adventure. This extraordinary exhibit will provide children and families with an exciting opportunity to immerse themselves in the thrilling world of maps!

In National Geographic MAPS: Tools for Adventure, the adventure begins in Explorers School. A new explorer has to learn the basics! Here, children and families manipulate and study amazing maps to learn how they are used as tools for adventure. They can use symbols to place landmarks on Adventure Island, create a map of their neighborhood in Make It, Map It, and learn how to find their way when North is not at the top of the map.

After completing map skill-building activities, children and families move on to Exploration areas grouped by land, sea, air and space. In Explorations on Land, kids and adults can explore the pyramids like National Geographic Explorer Zahi Hawass and play together in a life-size Congo Trek tent similar to the one that Michael Fay used in the jungles of Africa. In Explorations at Sea, children and families can pilot a canoe toward the North Star like Nainoa Thompson as well as learn how to be a shipwreck explorer like Phil Masters by layering old maps and new maps of the harbor to find the Queen Anne's Revenge. In Explorations in Air and Space, families can use sextants to find their location in the world like Amelia Earhart, predict the weather using data from the aqua satellite like NASA scientist Claire Parkinson, and map the surface of Mars like NASA scientist Nathalie Cabrol.

Throughout the exhibition, there are opportunities for kids and parents to dress like explorers, go on simulated computer game adventures, map their expedition through your gallery, and chart their past, present and future explorations.

Predators offers a hands-on insight into the lives of some of the most dangerous animals on the planet, both past and present. What do house cats and saber-toothed tigers have in common? Visitors can sharpen their wits through a variety of interactive activities that illustrate the similarities and differences between predators from around the globe and throughout history. Visitors learn how different predators are equipped to fulfill their specific roles in the natural world. Your audience can hone their senses and experience how each predator tracks, captures and kills their prey and how their environment influences their abilities. Visitors can dive in and see how a shark senses its prey under water and compare that with how a hawk hunts from the sky. Then, reverse roles and jump in the shark cage and see what it is like to be the prey of a 15 foot Great White Shark!

Predators examines a wide range of both contemporary and prehistoric animals. Visitors can learn about different predators from a huge orca to a tiny praying mantis. They can study a T-Rex skull and see how it stacks up against modern predators. And they can learn how wolves play charades, what masks and Bengal Tigers have in common and also why "playing possum" can be so important. Predators explores how popular culture has influenced our views of these animals. Everyone knows about JAWS but now visitors can learn about the various benefits that predators provide. These animals may be scary but they also play a key role in our world.

Experience the Museum of Discovery's Predators and find out why we are so fascinated by them - if you dare!

Venues Confirmed:

• May – September, 2011: Crown Center (Kansas City, MO)
• September 2011 – January 2012: Minnesota Children’s Museum (St. Paul, MN)

Help Save the Rainforests!

Rainforest Adventure is a multisensory expedition that introduces children to tropical rainforests around the world, challenges facing these unique ecological wonders and ways that people can make a difference. Visitors are introduced to scientists and the ways they study rainforests. Children role-play as research assistants on a series of problem-solving adventures.

Featuring over 40 interactive components, two computer games, a distance learning kiosk and plenty of expedition props - vests, flashlights, binoculars and more!

• Climb a 9' kapok tree
• Explore a gorilla's nest
• Study plant and animal life in the different layers of the rainforest
• Learn about the web of life
• Visit a village, weave on a loom and learn about local customs and traditions

Can a scientist be an artist? Does an artist use science? Science & Art examines how the vastly different fields of art and science can be beneficial to each other. Through collaboration these two fields can produce innovative creations that not only enhance our lives but open our minds. In this exhibit visitors learn about five scientists who have used science to create art and art to further science.

Science & Art is organized into five "mini" exhibits highlighting the artworks created by the different science artists. The displays are designed to show that while art and science aren't always the same thing, they do have much in common. Visitors will also experience how art can be used to convey scientific ideas and phenomena and experience science from a fresh point of view. Throughout each area there will also be plenty of opportunities to experience science and art firsthand with several hands-on interactive activities.

The Origami Laboratory features Origami sculpture work by Robert Lang, Ph.D., one of the world's leading origami masters with more than 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed. Lang's work demonstrated that by using basic mathematical principals and a few folding rules one can create complex and beautiful 3D works of art made from simple paper. Your visitors may fold their own work of art to take home or leave for display in the gallery's "visitor art" section.

The Elegant Worm combines biology and photography, offering a unique window into the world of scientific research as interpreted through art. The costars of this section are Ahna Skop, Ph.D., assistant professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin and the C. elegans worm. Dr. Skop's research is highlighted alongside a real microscope which allows visitors to look at live specimens and illustrates what researchers such as Skop have learned from this creature.

Music in the Machine showcases the creations of inventor Tristan Perich. His 1-Bit Music creation is part art, part physics and part mathematics. 1-bit compositions are delivered to listeners via an on/off switch, micro-chip, battery, earphone jack and volume control all squeezed into a single plastic CD case.

Electronic Threads features wearable computers created Leah Buechley, assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She uses electronics and textiles to build soft wearable computers. An interactive display allows visitors to select and see the different LED display patterns designed and programmed into the fabric. An electronic workbench also allows visitors to learn about the electrical properties of different materials.

The Digital Canvas rounds out the exhibit with the work of electronic artist and computer scientist Scott Snibbe. The concept of the nano-scale is examined in his work "Three Drops." This installation is a multimedia experience that allows visitors to move in front of a large screen and interact with projections of water at the macro, micro and then nano-scale levels and allows visitors to experience how the physical properties of water change at these three different scales.

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SPIN is an exciting exhibit that explores the fun - and science - of objects that rotate. Using interactive exhibits and real-life examples, visitors can explore how objects spin, why things spin at different speeds, and how we use spinning objects in our daily lives.

Guests of all ages will be fascinated to learn the science behind spinning toys, sports, transportation, space travel, entertainment - and even the Universe.

Venue Open:

• January - April 2011
• May - August 2011
• September - December 2011
• January - April 2012
• May - August 2012
• September - December 2012
• January - April 2013
• May - August 2013
• September - December 2013

It's saving electricity with a single flip of a light switch, turning an old tablecloth into a super hero cape and repairing something instead of throwing it away. It's fighting pollution and saving the world one aluminum can at a time. It's ordinary kids making a difference. It's Super Kids Save the World!

Super Kids Save the World gives kids (and their parents) the power to go green! Designed with "green" materials and practices, this super exhibit gives kids real super hero training starting with the four R's: Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle!

The exhibit is developed by The Magic House and based on the British children's book, George Saves the World by Lunchtime commissioned by the Eden Project, an educational charity dedicated to showing the importance of taking care of our world. In this book, written by Jo Readman and illustrated by Ley Honor Roberts, George, Flora and Grandpa demonstrate that by taking simple steps, families can become eco-friendly superheroes in their own communities.

The exhibit includes more than 30 activities in seven environments:

House

• Take the Super Kid pledge to take care of our world.
• Don a super hero cape made from a recycled tablecloth.
• Dress a life sized cut-out figure to decide which children's clothes go to the Re-Use Charity Shop.
• Repair a broken toy car so it can be played with again.
• Prepare and pack a healthy lunch with re-usable containers.
  

Garden

• Pick fresh vegetables in the garden to take to the market.
  
• Turn the compost pile with a garden rake.
  
• Create bedding for the bunny cage from torn newspaper.
• Save energy by hanging clothes on a clothesline.
  

Re-Use Charity Shop

• Try on funky clothes and see the result in the many mirrors.
  
• Produce greeting cards from a wide variety of recycled materials.
• Play music on record players, radios and cassette recorders.
• Create a missing puzzle piece so the puzzle can be sold.
  
• Make new clothes for a paper doll.
  

Research Lab

• Play a virtual algae game to speed up bio-fuel production.
  
• Pump algae water through a photo-reactor.
  
• Use a microscope to identify algae from other microorganisms.
  
• Turn a hand crank generator to experience the difference between incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.
  
• Operate the levers to learn about solar power.
  
• Wear a lab coat just like a real scientist.
  

Recycle Center

• Take on the role of workers in a recycle center.
  
• Wear a hard hat and safety vest.
  
• Drive a recycling truck.
  
• Sort trash onto a conveyor belt system.
  
• Play a rapid-paced computer game to see who can sort recycled materials the fastest.
  

Reduce Fuel Service Center

• Explore the red convertible Smart Car.
  
• Fill the tank with biofuel.
  
• Clean the windshield with a safe, homemade cleaning product.
  
• Climb through a tire tunnel made from tires ready to be recycled.
  

Farmers Market

• Sell fruits and vegetables in a local outdoor market.
  
• Pick apples from a special tree.
  
• Arrange baked goods, cheese and bread for sale under a colorful awning
  
• Ride a bike to generate energy to power a streetlight.
  

Venue Confirmed:

• June - December 2009: Edventure (Columbia, SC)
• January - April 2010: Don Harrington Discovery Center (Amarillo, TX)
• May - September 2010: Children's Science Exploreum (Boca Raton, FL)

Venue Open:

• October - December 2010
• February - April 2011
• June - August 2011

Past Venue:

• June - December 2007: NCAA Hall of Champions (Indianapolis, IN)
  
• June - December 2007: The Chidren's Museum (West Hartford, CT)
• January - April 2008: Orlando Science Center (FL)
• June - August 2008: American Museum of Science (Oak Ridge, TN)
• February - May 2009: Mobius Kids (Spokane, WA)

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Wild About Plants is a botanical adventure that engages children and families in an exploration of plants in everyday life. Visitors explore the home of a fictional character Flora Wild to touch, smell, magnify, build, watch and listen to plants, uncovering what they do for people and what people can do for them.

• Decide what's for dinner by transforming raw plants into finished meals.
• Follow the story of how plants become household helps.
• Watch videos of Ms. Wild's neighbors discussing their plant-related hobbies.
• Grow like a plant in an interactive time-lapse video.
• Put on a puppet theater show and more!

Wild About Plants conveys the importance of plants to humanity. Visitors uncover their personal connections to nature and discover extraordinary plant stories in familiar objects such as food, medicine and clothing. These discoveries aim toward opening children's minds to thinking about plants as a part of everyday life.

Venue Open:

• 2011-2013, contact for availability

Past Venue:

• June 8, 2007-November 25, 2007: Adler Planetarium (Chicago, IL)
• December 4, 2007-January 4, 2008: Aerospace Education Center (Little Rock, AR)
• January 11, 2008-March 2, 2008: Buffalo Museum of Science (Buffalo, NY)
• March 8, 2008-May 26, 2008: COSI (Columbus, OH)
• June 7, 2008-June 21, 2009: EcoTarium (Worcester, MA)
• June 22, 2009-August 30, 2009: Exhibit Refurbishment
• September 12, 2009-August 29, 2010: COSI (Columbus, OH)
• September 18, 2010-January 9, 2011: Boonshoft Museum of Discovery (Dayton, OH)

The Zula Patrol, those colorful and energetic Galactic fact gatherers have been planet hopping across the Solar System on their never ending quest for knowledge. They've finally landed on Earth to study the weather on our home planet. We can experiment right along with them and learn what weather is, how it works, what affects it, and how it affects us.

This compact exhibition is anchored by five freestanding installations that combine to create the colorful cartoon world of Zula. Captain Bula, Professor Multo, Space Pilot Zeeter, flying wonders Wizzy and Wigg, and Space Pet Gorga invite you to apply the scientific method. Learn all about clouds, precipitation, wind, temperature, and other weather phenomenon.

The exhibit addresses the developmental needs of children by increasing scientific knowledge and habits of mind, addressing National Science Education Standards meeting National Association for the Education of Young Children Curriculum Guidelines, providing different types of play opportunities, and providing opportunities for children to exercise Multiple Intelligences.

The Zula Patrol is a multifaceted brand of learning tools including an animated television series, outreach program, classroom activities, permanent and traveling museum exhibitions, and digital dome theater show aimed to provide early science and reading literacy for children in preschool through 2nd grade.