Live Presentations
Every day, the Museum offers a number of live demonstrations,
most of which are free with Exhibit Halls admission. A current
listing of live presentations is below. Check the Museum's
daily schedule
for presentation times on a given date.
- Behind the Headline (Live Presentation)
- Behind the Headline is a rotating presentation that explores an exciting science and technology story that's in the news. See Related Links below for more information about current topics and schedules. (details).
- Behind the Headline: The 3-D Printing Revolution (Live Presentation)
- 3-D printers build real objects layer by layer with materials such as plastic, metal, food, and even living cells! Once used only for industrial prototyping, these printers can now create customized, durable products for personal use. Discover how 3-D printers are revolutionizing industry while also ... (details).
- Cool Concepts: Mind Games & Optical Illusions (Live Presentation)
- Volunteers from the audience participate in demonstrations that reveal how the brain can be tricked. See the world the way it really isn't, and investigate how our senses trick us. Visit the exhibit Seeing Is Deceiving before or after this presentation. (details).
- Design Challenges (Live Presentation)
- This live Museum offering is designed to introduce students and visitors to the engineering design cycle. By participating in a hands-on activity to design, build, and test a prototype solution to a given problem, visitors have a fun and engaging experience with engineering and innovation processes. The ... (details).
- Hands-on Laboratory (Live Presentation)
- You be the scientist! Drop in for ongoing activities and help conduct real experiments. (details).
- Lightning! (Live Presentation)
- Indoor bolts produced by the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator spark exciting explorations of lightning, electric charge, and storm safety. (details).
- Live Animal Presentation (Live Presentation)
- Explore the adaptation, behaviors, and ecology of animals, as well as the environments they live in, with the furry, feathered, and scaly residents of our Live Animal Center. The Museum's AZA-accredited Live Animal Center supports a collection of over 120 individual animals and several colonies ... (details).
- Science Live! (Live Presentation)
- A rotating schedule of live scientific discovery. (details).
- Science Snapshot (Live Presentation)
- Take a closer look at the latest in science and technology in our lives. (details).
- Super-Cold Science (Live Presentation)
- When temperature goes extreme, see materials break all the rules. Liquid nitrogen produces remarkable state or pressure alterations in substances when they get super cold. Find out how such extreme temperatures can cause materials to undergo dramatic changes. (details).
- Vesuvius: Story of an Eruption (Live Presentation)
- What can artifacts and rocks tell us about the past? We'll use these clues to travel back to the ancient city of Pompeii and investigate the explosive eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed — then preserved — the city. (details).
