Visit our New Exhibits!

Sea Life Rescue: August 26 - September 11, 2008
Coming to you LIVE, from behind the Shark Tank, it's Sea Trek! Come to the Discovery Center for a firsthand look into Sea Life Rescue. There will be an onsite exhibit as well as an interactive video conference connection with staff from Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida.

Giant Map of Asia: November 2008
Plan now to be part of this unique learning opportunity!  This map from National Geographic is being brought to DCS in collaboration with the Missouri Geographic Alliance.  Limited scholarship funds are available through the MO Geographic Alliance.  To book a field trip and find out about program options using the map, contact Hayley Budd at 862-9910x726.  For map scholarship info., contact Laurie Duncan at 862-9910x701.

Cruse Charitable Trust ChromoZone Gallery
We've opened the Cruse Charitable Trust ChromoZone Gallery with 22 permanent exhibits developed by the Exploratorium and underwritten by an Anonymous donor. These exhibits will help visitors of all ages understand the characteristics of all living things; life needs energy, life uses common materials, life makes new life, and life changes over time. Visitors can explore these traits of life by watching glow-in-the dark worms, looking inside a termite’s gut, watching the beating heart of a chicken embryo, and observing beetles completing the circle of life.

You can also see your own DNA by visiting the ChromoZone Lab, where you'll put on a lab coat and conduct a laboratory process to extract your DNA from cheek cells. Then, sneak a peak into the Resident Scientist Lab, where you can watch real scientific research in progress.  And if the window is open, feel free to ask the scientists about their projects!

Exhibit Photo Gallery from the Springfield News Leader.

ExNet, Part III: Now - Aug. 2009
ExNet is the Exploratorium Network for Exhibit Based Teaching, founded on the exhibit design and education expertise of the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. As a member of the ExNet network, Discovery Center has received 34 new hands-on exhibits focusing on the areas of Force and Structure, Mirrors and Reflection, Making Images, and Rotation. For more information on the exhibits, click here.