Christopher Columbus and COSI Science Museum- day 4
I wanted to post these last night, but Blogger was being a pain and wouldn't load for me when I finally got the girls to sleep.
This is a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria, that he sailed across the ocean blue in 1492... it was reconstructed by the City of Columbus in honor of the 500 year anniversary of his discovery of the 'new world' in 1992. It is only a couple of blocks from COSI, so we actually stumbled across it. We knew it was somewhere in the city, having read about it in one of the tourist brochures in the hotel room the night before, but we hadn't looked it up and didn't necessarily intend to see it. Stopping and looking at it for a few minutes actually helped us kill a little time until COSI opened at noon. You can actually take a tour for a pretty reasonable fee, but we didn't as we wanted to get over to the science museum.
We always enjoy science museums- fun and learning all rolled into one neat package- and this one was no exception. Oh, and COSI stands for Center of Science and Industry, just in case you were wondering ;) They had some familiar things, but they also had some really cool new exhbits too.
The most unique was the traveling special exhibit on Star Wars. We had to pay extra to see this as it wasn't covered in the standard admission and thus was not covered with our recriprocal membership pass, but how could we pass it up for a meer $5 extra per person?
They had lots of original costumes from all of the different movies displayed in cases for everyone to see. Exhibits on the sets and where they got the ideas from, and of course the technology that is in the movies and if it is really possible or just imagination. A lot of the technology advances they put in the movies have some basis in reality- they have just taken it further than is possible at this point in time.
A good example of this is the sand speeder that Luke drives in the 4th movie. Yes, we can use magnets and air cushions to levitate and propel vehicles-but no we cannot make them fly. Here is Bryce riding in a demo of an air cushion type vehicle. Each person was allowed one 30 second demo ride.
Most of the other exhbits focused on robotics and how to build them- for example, what types of things do robotic engineers have to take into consideration, and how do they accomplish them.
I was working on a LO of the Star Wars exhibit pictures I took, but it is not anywhere near done. So, you will just have to wait.
Brenna's favorite part of COSI was Kidspace- a really large room that was reserved for kids aged 5 and under. Some of the exhbits were similar to the larger ones in various other places in the museum, but they were sized smaller. Others were role playing type things- pretend to be a doctor, or a helicopter pilot, shop at the grocery store, etc., and of course there was a water table exhbit to get all wet in. Brenna loved balancing the balls in the air jets of this particular exhibit.
We saw a show/demonstration on the science of fireworks. there was something in that room that really caught Sarah's eye/attention as she just went nuts through the whole second half trying to get down to get something and making lots of noise. We're not really sure what she was so excited about.
The biggest surprise we had was the second room in the ocean exhibit- the first is a model of the inside of a submarine and underwater research dome. Pretty cool. The first thing you see when you walk into the second half of this area is:
That's Poseidon staring down at you from the top of a large fountain with water cannons to play with and various other types of hands-on water exhibits. The whole room looks like you are in an underwater grotto- there is even a sunken ship forming one wall. The atmostphere was really neat. Sarahs favorite was the fountain that Daddy helped her play in. She really is a water baby and loves to splash and play in the water now that she can sit up by herself. Every time that Mark got her up to the water she would put more and more into it. She even stuck her foot in the fountain pool.
The last exhibit we stopped at before they kicked us out because they were closing was the space room. They had a fun rocket made with a 2liter soda bottle and some compressed air and a replica of a space station module with examples of how the astronauts live there- what foods they eat, how they sleep (strapped to the wall in a sleeping bag), and how they go to the bathroom being a few. This pic is of Bryce and Carissa exploring the communications station of the module.
They had a John Glenn exhibit with a replica of the space capsule he orbited the Earth in, and some other memorabilia. And Mark and Bryce explored the space shuttle simulators for a few minutes there at the end.
This is a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria, that he sailed across the ocean blue in 1492... it was reconstructed by the City of Columbus in honor of the 500 year anniversary of his discovery of the 'new world' in 1992. It is only a couple of blocks from COSI, so we actually stumbled across it. We knew it was somewhere in the city, having read about it in one of the tourist brochures in the hotel room the night before, but we hadn't looked it up and didn't necessarily intend to see it. Stopping and looking at it for a few minutes actually helped us kill a little time until COSI opened at noon. You can actually take a tour for a pretty reasonable fee, but we didn't as we wanted to get over to the science museum.
We always enjoy science museums- fun and learning all rolled into one neat package- and this one was no exception. Oh, and COSI stands for Center of Science and Industry, just in case you were wondering ;) They had some familiar things, but they also had some really cool new exhbits too.The most unique was the traveling special exhibit on Star Wars. We had to pay extra to see this as it wasn't covered in the standard admission and thus was not covered with our recriprocal membership pass, but how could we pass it up for a meer $5 extra per person?
They had lots of original costumes from all of the different movies displayed in cases for everyone to see. Exhibits on the sets and where they got the ideas from, and of course the technology that is in the movies and if it is really possible or just imagination. A lot of the technology advances they put in the movies have some basis in reality- they have just taken it further than is possible at this point in time.
A good example of this is the sand speeder that Luke drives in the 4th movie. Yes, we can use magnets and air cushions to levitate and propel vehicles-but no we cannot make them fly. Here is Bryce riding in a demo of an air cushion type vehicle. Each person was allowed one 30 second demo ride.Most of the other exhbits focused on robotics and how to build them- for example, what types of things do robotic engineers have to take into consideration, and how do they accomplish them.
I was working on a LO of the Star Wars exhibit pictures I took, but it is not anywhere near done. So, you will just have to wait.
Brenna's favorite part of COSI was Kidspace- a really large room that was reserved for kids aged 5 and under. Some of the exhbits were similar to the larger ones in various other places in the museum, but they were sized smaller. Others were role playing type things- pretend to be a doctor, or a helicopter pilot, shop at the grocery store, etc., and of course there was a water table exhbit to get all wet in. Brenna loved balancing the balls in the air jets of this particular exhibit.
We saw a show/demonstration on the science of fireworks. there was something in that room that really caught Sarah's eye/attention as she just went nuts through the whole second half trying to get down to get something and making lots of noise. We're not really sure what she was so excited about.
The biggest surprise we had was the second room in the ocean exhibit- the first is a model of the inside of a submarine and underwater research dome. Pretty cool. The first thing you see when you walk into the second half of this area is:
That's Poseidon staring down at you from the top of a large fountain with water cannons to play with and various other types of hands-on water exhibits. The whole room looks like you are in an underwater grotto- there is even a sunken ship forming one wall. The atmostphere was really neat. Sarahs favorite was the fountain that Daddy helped her play in. She really is a water baby and loves to splash and play in the water now that she can sit up by herself. Every time that Mark got her up to the water she would put more and more into it. She even stuck her foot in the fountain pool.
The last exhibit we stopped at before they kicked us out because they were closing was the space room. They had a fun rocket made with a 2liter soda bottle and some compressed air and a replica of a space station module with examples of how the astronauts live there- what foods they eat, how they sleep (strapped to the wall in a sleeping bag), and how they go to the bathroom being a few. This pic is of Bryce and Carissa exploring the communications station of the module.
They had a John Glenn exhibit with a replica of the space capsule he orbited the Earth in, and some other memorabilia. And Mark and Bryce explored the space shuttle simulators for a few minutes there at the end.
posted by Melinda at 10:01 PM
2 Comments:
Wow! So much fun, I'm enjoying the pictures of your trip!!
oh my goodness...I loved reading this entry and seeing all your pictures. I wish I was with you guys...seems like you are having so much funnnnnnnn. That science place is so cool!
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