If your family is spending a few nights at a Boston hotel , and you wish to encourage your sons and/or daughters to develop a scientific turn of mind, then you’ll want to ask the concierge about Boston’s Museum of Science.
At the museum, you’ll be able to stroll through current exhibits that include a virtual tour of Acadia National Park, which contains a specimen of every bird found in New England. There’s a bees exhibit which displays glassed-in beehives where you may watch thousands of the insects traveling in and out of the colony. You can take a look at the advancements in medical imaging from the discovery of the X-ray in 1895 to the present.
If you feel more like participating than watching, there’s the simulator experience for five dollars a ride (four dollars if you’re a museum member). In the simulator, you and your family may travel through space, explore beneath the ocean or inside a water molecule. The featured films here include Bermuda Triangle Adventure, where a submersible vehicle searches for shipwrecks and missing aircraft. In Wings, you can experience what it might have been like to ride in some of the world’s historic machines, from the Sopwith Camel to the F-5 Tiger. In Space Walk, you can orbit around the International Space Station and witness its construction. Then, in five minutes, you may board the Solar Coaster and see the solar system in a roller coaster like thrill ride, taking you from the Sun to the Kuiper Belt.
These are only a few of the attractions available at the Museum of Science , which is open Saturday through Thursday from nine to five, and Fridays from nine to nine.