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Provide an educational and motivating experience for your students with a field trip to the Museum. Field trip activities include access to educator-only offerings pre-selected to support your science and social studies curriculum.
Discover Earth’s ancient climate history.
Explore some of the world’s most remote and beautiful caves with this new giant-screen film created expressly for the IMAX® Dome.
Explore the Quantum Realm!
Watch the highly anticipated sequel to Marvel Studios’ 2018 blockbuster hit Ant-Man and The Wasp on the IMAX Dome screen.
Become an Arctic explorer.
Fly a virtual drone to find an Arctic fox, traverse a glacier using ground-penetrating radar, and more in this immersive experience.
Experiment with our newest exhibit ideas.
Get a sneak peek into how exhibits get made and help us create new ones by testing out the newest exhibit ideas before they are finalized.
Go on a journey of discovery.
Explore the night sky with your favorite friends from Sesame Street and learn about the Big Dipper, the North Star, and more!
Enjoy a special version of the hit show with softer sound and light and looser house rules.
Investigate human biology and how we interact with the world around us
Celebrate the legacy of our founder.
Explore the story of Bradford Washburn, renowned mountaineer and Museum of Science founder.
For Grades 3 – 5
Two animals from the Museum’s Living Collection show the structural and behavioral adaptations that allow them to thrive in their habitat.
What kind of engineer are you? Take a quiz to find out and learn more about what engineers do!
Ensuring a healthy planet for all.
Some of our most vulnerable communities are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. How can we build a better future for all?
An authentic look into the distant past.
Get an up-close view of this 65-million-year-old fossil, discovered in the Dakota Badlands in 2004.
Energy saving tips and hints!
Discover the real energy sappers and savers in the home, and explore ways that you can make a difference.
Revealing the secrets of the universe.
Explore the Milky Way Galaxy to discover a range of information about our universe.
Participate in a hands-on activity to design, build, and test a prototype solution to a given problem.
Visit the Red Planet!
Join the team of scientists and astronauts who are working to make one of humanity’s oldest dreams come true: life on Mars.
What do dinosaur fossils reveal?
Check out fossils and life-size models to learn how paleontologists compile evidence and change the way we view these extinct animals.
For Grades 6 – 8
Join a Museum educator on a virtual trip from past to present, and explore our dynamic planet as it continues evolving with plate tectonics!
For Grades 6 – 8
Meet two organisms from the Museum’s Living Collection to learn how all living things interact within an ecosystem.
Looking for game-changing integrated STEM curricula, family resources and professional development? Check out our EiE resources.
Encourage family collaboration and help children develop creative problem-solving skills and confidence in STEM disciplines.
Preserving history’s treasures.
Explore local and global heritage sites and learn about the steps people are taking to protect them from the effects of climate change.
Engineering is for everyone!
Design, build, and test solutions! Discover the many ways engineers approach problem solving in surprising areas of our everyday lives.
Digitally remastered!
Experience the classic giant screen adventure, a story of triumph over adversity and of the true power and resilience of the human spirit!
A Project of the Museum of Science, Boston Created under Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number: 80NSSC21M0042
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Travel through the solar system and beyond in a tour of our stellar neighborhood.
Explore our beautiful solar system and its thousands of varied worlds that are changing the way we view our neighborhood in space.
Fly through the solar system and beyond.
Leave the Earth behind and take off with a Planetarium educator as your star pilot!
Discover the many ways AI is already in your life!
The more we know about Artificial Intelligence, the better the choices we can make about how and when we use it.
Advancing social justice through STEM!
See how the professionals highlighted here call upon their own life experiences in their chosen fields.
Where it's always summer!
Walk through this warm conservatory filled with exotic plants and insects.
Explore our deepest mysteries.
Witness the startling interplay between science and religion as both strive to give meaning to humankind’s oldest questions.
For Grades K – 2
Students meet a resident of the Museum's Living Collection and use scientific observations to discover clues to the animal’s habitat.
Discover what makes you, you.
The Museum's Hall of Human Life exhibition revolutionizes how people understand their own biology.
Reopening Soon — Stay Tuned!
Book Health Headlines & Vital Signs for your Museum field trip today!
Travel to Alaska, Hawaii, and the Kingdom of Tonga to see how these whales communicate, sing, feed, play, and care for their young.
Science starts at home.
Practice thinking like a scientist by investigating different phenomena to try to understand the way the world works.
Swim with the world's largest shark, encounter mysterious creatures of the sea, and explore the planet's most spectacular coral reefs.
Dark Side of the Moon
Laser Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon creates a mind-bending landscape of light and sound set to Pink Floyd's 1973 masterpiece.
Feel its awesome power!
Explore lightning and storm safety as the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator hurls indoor bolts.
Where our animal ambassadors live.
Visit this viewing area for a peek at some of the stars of the Museum's Live Animal presentations.
Meet our animal ambassadors!
Discover the furry, feathered, and scaly residents of our Live Animal Center.
Created with little ones in mind!
Hear a story and meet its animal star in a presentation made especially for our younger visitors!
Created by Charles and Ray Eames.
Enjoy the wonder of mathematics and the beauty of post-modern design.
Hear from the people who do science for a living!
Learn about a variety of timely topics from the professionals who are making a difference in the world through their chosen STEM fields.
Get to know the real stars and planets with our monthly Sky Chart, featuring an eye-catching event each month.
Science never stops and neither does the Museum! Here's an additional collection of STEM resources designed to bring the Museum to you.
Find connections in the natural world.
Observe a reference library of interesting objects, experience enticingly mysterious environments, and participate in activities.
Experience the region's wildlife.
Explore windows into wide-ranging landscapes, model birds, casts of feet, antlers, beaks, and other elements.
An informed public is a healthier public.
Learn about vaccines and their development in the Museum’s newest cutting-edge exhibition.
Un público informado es un público más sano.
Aprende más acerca de las vacunas y su desarrollo en la nueva exposición de vanguardia del museo.
It never rains in this playground!
Run, jump, swing, and use familiar objects to investigate the pushes and pulls of everyday life.
A rotating schedule of science discovery.
Join us as we investigate a variety of science topics ranging from super-cold science to live animals and everything in between!
Enjoy the science behind magical demonstrations that reveal how "Science is magic that works." (Kurt Vonnegut)
What's trending in the science world?
Take a closer look at the latest in science and technology in our lives.
For Grades 6 – 8
Join a Museum educator to virtually fly into space to see what causes Earth’s seasons, Moon phases, and solar and lunar eclipses!
You might want to look twice!
Encounter dozens of examples of images that, on closer examination, are not what they appear to be at first glance.
Explore this unique ecosystem!
Discover one of Nature’s perfect symphonies in which every species—from the mighty elephant to the tiny dung beetle—has a role to play.
It's super fun!
Experience the extreme, even bizarre, effects heat and temperature have on solids, liquids, and gases.
The atomic world as you've never seen before — hilarious, awe-inspiring, and educational!
The Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning aims to educate the public in Boston and beyond on rapid advancements in the life sciences.
For Grades 3 – 5
Join a Museum educator as they unfurl Earth’s sky across your computer screen and explore the motions of the Sun and the stars!
Look inside this time capsule!
See original artifacts and animals representing both the life travels of Colonel Francis T. Colby and the mindset of a generation.
Experience a fusion of Coldplay's alternative sounds with stunning and inventive visuals under the Charles Hayden Planetarium dome.
Immerse yourself in the timeless sounds of Prince fused with sophisticated visuals under the Charles Hayden Planetarium dome.
Go on a sensory journey full of innovation, artistry, and imagination set to the pulsating soundtrack of one of music's greatest performers!
Rocks and minerals from around the globe.
See petrified wood from Arizona, Egyptian granite, our own Roxbury puddingstone, and more.
Celebrate the American race to the Moon.
See full-size models of the Apollo and Mercury capsules and a graphic timeline documenting the key era of human space exploration.
Changing modes of transport over time.
Trains, boats, and a real-life steam engine! Explore the history of transportation as you observe actual machines and realistic replicas.
For Grades 6 - 8
Learn how the Earth changes through studying plate tectonics.
For Grades 6 - 8
Meet two living organisms from our Living Collections to learn about the behaviors and adaptations animals and plants use for survival.
For Grades 3 - 5
Explore adaptations with the residents of our Live Animal Care Center to see what it takes to survive in the wild.
For Grades K - 2
In this live interactive program, students will meet a resident of our Live Animal Care Center to observe and look for clues.
For Grades 6 - 8
Join a Museum educator and virtually explore the Charles River ecosystem in this live interactive program.
For Grades 6 - 8
Join a Museum of Science educator as they virtually fly you into space to explore the relationship between the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun.
For Grades 3 - 5
Join a Museum of Science educator as they unfurl Earth’s sky across your computer screen and explore the motions of the Sun and the stars.
See the ways science and art connect.
See 30 of Katharine Lane Weems's bronze sculptures of animals displayed in this exhibit, the largest Weems collection in the world.
Animals are adjusting.
Meet residents from our Living Collections and hear how their wild counterparts are either threatened or thriving as the climate changes.
See the celestial sights of summer.
A live presenter takes you on a tour through the skies of New England, highlighting the top celestial sights of the season.
Explore the river we all call home.
Looking out over the Charles River, observe and explore the connections between natural habitats and engineered designs.
Look for the special symbol!
Visit our exhibits and experiences designed for aspiring scientists, plus see the Daily Schedule for special programs and pop-up activities.
