CMOST's Grand Re-Opening Celebration to Showcase New Science Exhibits!

The Children’s Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST)

Grand Re-Opening Celebration, featuring this hands-on exhibit

Seeing: An ExNET Exhibition from San Francisco’s Exploratorium

Generously on-loan from miSci (the Museum of Innovation and Science, formerly the Schenectady Museum)

Shocking proof that we don’t see the same thing when looking at the same scene, the six exhibits of Seeing at CMOST explore and explain visual perception. The exhibition questions our notion of objectivity and provides insight as to how the eye and brain function together. The exhibits in Seeing originated at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, the prototype for hands-on science museums around the world. Seeing at miSci is presented through the generosity of Neil and Jane Golub and National Grid.

Nano exhibit

Through a series of engaging, hands-on stations and activities, visitors are able to build a giant carbon nanotube; use their “spy skills” to find examples of nano products and phenomena as part of several interactive challenges; build a stable nano future on a tippy table; spin disks to compare the effects of static electricity and gravity; and sit back and comfortably learn more about nanotechnology from books and reading boards.

The Nano exhibit was created by the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Network) with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), nanoengineering, and is sponsored at CMOST by the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE)

GE Junior Discovery Room

The new GE Junior Discovery Room is a special place at CMOST where families can learn more about different scientific concepts by using our newly developed Explore Boxes. Each Explore Box contains a different hands-on science projects that families can work on together. Many Explorer Boxes are designed to present a different hands-on science topics in a simple way so that young children can be engaged in exploring the world of science.