Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center is located in the Inner Harbor downtown in Baltimore, Maryland. The Science Center has many exhibits to learn about everything science from dinosaurs to the human body to outer space. There are many activities to draw people back again and again.
The Science Center has an IMAX theater that offers multiple movie experiences. The movies are designed to give everyone the opportunity to travel along with an extreme adventurers, athletes and explorers. The theater is designed to
The Science Center also has a planetarium, offering different programs to learn about astronomy, a demo stage that provides demonstrations of scientific phenomena with the aid of the audience, and an observatory that allows everyone to look at the night sky.
All of the exhibits at the Science Center are designed to engage everyone in the topic being presented. The Dinosaur mysteries exhibit includes full size skeletons of dinosaurs. Some of the activities available at this exhibit are searching for dinosaur bones, measuring the bones and standing in the tracks of dinosaurs.
The Fossils exhibit displays fossils found throughout Maryland of dinosaurs, raptors and crocodiles. This exhibit engages the future paleontologist with a wall of fossils to explore.
Another exhibit which explores Maryland is about Blue Crabs, which is one of the regions most important residents. This exhibit demonstrates the reasons why the Chesapeake Bay needs to be taken care of and allows you to explore the bay through satellite photos. There is a huge mechanical crab that is remembered by generations as an icon of the Science Center.
The Science Center strives to provide activities for kids to engage them in various aspects of science. The family with young kids is welcomed at the Kids Room exhibit where kids get to send boats down a river, play in a submarine, and build Lego towers. Newton's Alley is designed to explore physics in an interactive format. Older children will find this exhibit fascinating as they convert their energy into electricity or create a vortex of water. The Your Body exhibit explores how the body works and has activities that explain germs and sanitation.
A visit to the Science Center wouldn't be a visit with out exploring the Outer Space exhibit. This exhibit allows you to travel the solar system by learning how stars are born and exploring each planet. This exhibit contains the Hubble Space Telescope National Visitor Center and displays photos taken by it through out a gallery.
The Maryland Science center is one place that should be visited again and again not only by residents of Maryland, but by visitors of Maryland who want to explore the universe.