This engaging exhibition shows how we all can use our ingenuity to build body replacements, develop brain-machine interfaces, and engineer unique assistive tools that push human potential beyond limits. Human Plus invites visitors to explore the dynamic, creative, user-focused engineering…
Experience the annual gingerbread competition and exhibit that meshes two of our favorite things—baking and creativity! The awe-inspiring entries celebrate popular science fiction and the wonders of astronomy. The gingerbread creations are set amongst a display of festive holiday trees…
Galleries in all four museums will burst with color when over 50 museum objects are creatively interpreted by florists and garden club members during the 5th annual Festival of Flowers. Join us as we celebrate spring throughout the art, history…
It's time to meet your microbes! Trillions of microbes make their homes inside our bodies, and we wouldn’t be able to survive without each other! Zoo in You, invites visitors of all ages to explore this fascinating and complex world…
Amazing gingerbread creations by local bakeries, schools, adults and kids displayed along with festively decorated holiday trees, enchanting lights, and a backdrop of beautifully painted murals representing a popular young wizard and his adventures in a magical world. Visitors have…
Earth Hall features spectacular minerals from around the world, many of which have been in the museum’s collection since the 1880s. Among the prominent displays is the Schortmann Collection of fine mineral specimens. The collection was assembled by brothers Alvin…
Springfield Science Museum, First & Second Floors The multi-level R.E. Phelon African Hall opened in 1981 with exhibits that highlight the diversity of Africa’s wildlife and peoples. Visitors travel through the hall along a winding ramp that leads them past…
Sit back and experience the wonders of the night sky with expert astronomers and educators. Be prepared to open your eyes to a whole new world—or worlds! The Seymour Planetarium is home to historically significant astronomy education tools as well…
Our popular live animal center has evolved! Through living exhibits, explore habitats from around the world and right in our own neighborhood. Get up close with beloved inhabitants like the wood turtle and poison dart frogs and meet new aquatic animals…
The Springfield Science Museum’s Dinosaur Hall is dominated by a life-sized replica of Tyrannosaurus rex, the 20-foot-tall meat eater who lived 65 million years ago. In addition, there is a replica of Coelophysis, an early dinosaur which lived in the…