Museum Of Science

This is vacation week but the exhibit ends on January 1st and I wanted to check it out so off we went. There are 3 different cases and you start off getting your CSI photo taken and being given a clipboard for your case notes. We went through scenes 1 – A House Collided and 3 – No Bones About It.

In each case you examine the scene then pass through 2 labs where you analyze the case. You scan fingerprints, check out trace eveidence, investigate firearms and forensic biology and toxicology and end up listening to the medical examiners report with a simulated autopsy.

At the end you present your report to Supervisor Gil Grissom to see how you did! It was pretty fun even if I did get suckered into buying the photo from the beginning for $20.

Try some CSI training of your own here

Saturday, August 4

Decent place but definitely not worth the price of admission for me. Quite a few “broken” exhibits (especially those that were computer-based) but I guess that’s to be expected what with all the children running around mashing buttons. The cafeteria options were extremely disappointing but I should’ve known better than to get my hopes up based on the signs posted around the museum. Probably best to go on a weekday, perhaps during the school year.

I did enjoy “A Bird’s World”, “Mapping the World Around Us” and “New England Habitats”. Still looking forward to visiting the planetarium sometime.

I went to the museum of science yesturday 5/20/07. If my sister and I didn’t have free admission to the exhibit halls it definately wouldn’t have been worth going! As it was, we paid for my little cousin to get in and the extra things (the 3-d digital movie on bugs, and the butterfly). well some of the things in the exhibit halls didnt even work! actually lots of them! The bathroom was dirty!!! ew! and the bugs movie was terrible. The best part was the butterflies and i am not into butterflies that much!!

I absolutely loved the Museum of Science; it is definitely a must-see if you visit Boston. The Charles Darwin exhibit is awesome and very comprehensive, albiet with some reading involved.

I would highly recommend this to anyone with kids, since there’s tons of interactive stuff for them to do. There was a computer station game that I was messing with in the Darwin area, and a 6-7 year old walked up and was asking me all kinds of questions about it before I got him to play it himself. There were lots of extra employees around showing children different experiments, or running shows. One was with these humungous electrical coils. I was surprised that they had some live animals, including monkeys and chicks. There was this cartoon network exhibit, which showcased several animation stations. It included one area where it would take a 3-dimensional photograph, and put them together for a matrix-like effect, which was really cool.

Overall, I was very impressed with this place and any other science museums will have to live up to it.

If you are in college, GO ON COLLEGE NIGHT. People… It’s BADASS!!!

We got a free duck tour, my buddy got to drive. It was almost-all free, it was SO MUCH FUN! Holy cow…

I always begged to go here as a kid and for a while I had a family membership. What was great about seeing it again recently on vacation was that while there were many new exhibits, there were a a few displays and exhibits still there that I remembered from my childhood visits. Mathematica has barely changed. No more awesome sound-meter wall, 60-foot wave tank (there is a 10-foot one), tic-tac-toe on a touch tone phone, and ComputerPlace is where The Brain used to be. Also, a few of the remains of the once-great Computer Museum are housed on the third floor overlooking the Van de Graff generator.

GO!

I used to love this place when I was little but now, not so much. The last time I went, about a year ago, it became really obvious that none of the permanent exhbits have been updated at all in years; interactive parts of the exhibit were broken and such. Still a fun place to visit and explore because there’s just so much to look at! The laser show is also really neat; I saw Laser Radiohead there and loved every second of it.

I’ve been here on countless school and family trips. This is the greatest place on Earth.

I grew up here, more or less. Bring your kids here if you want to make them happy.