The Museum actively participates in numerous key partnerships, including with six of the nation's leading science museums, seven children's museums, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
EXPERIMENT AND EXPLORE IN OUR INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS!
What will you discover today? Find out in the Museum’s all-new interactive exhibits. From toys to tornado tubes, waterworks to Western lore, dinosaurs to da Vinci, there’s something for inventors of all ages.
MORE HANDS-ON EXHIBIT FUN
Innovation Studios
Learn about science and history topics as they happen in these interactive, illuminated spaces. There’s always something new and different happening in each lab. We reserve the right to surprise you!
Energy Blast
Take a journey back in time in the 4D theater and learn about the origins of the Barnett Shale. Then visit the “rig site” and witness the scientific story of energy – one of physics and technology.
Fort Worth Children’s Museum
Enter through the friendly dragonhead and have hands-on fun in this special exhibit gallery designed especially for children from birth through age 8.
Let’s Take the Streetcar: Journeying Through Fort Worth’s Past
Hop aboard the streetcar and follow the history of city and interurban rail travel in Fort Worth from the mid 1870s to the mid 1930s.
Cattle Raisers Museum
A cooperative venture between the Museum and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Foundation, the Cattle Raisers Museum is a “museum within a museum” that immerses you in the dynamic history and science of the cattle and ranching industry.
Native American Gallery
View artifacts from the Gordon W. Smith North American Indian Collection, presented in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
DinoLabs
Use scientific processes to discover dinosaur fossils at field sites, analyze fossils, and create images of what dinosaurs looked like.
DinoDig®
Learn how paleontologists find fossils, document their location, carefully dig them up, and securely pack them for transportation to the lab in this large, outdoor recreation of the Jones Ranch dinosaur field site in Texas.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS
Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius
May 22 - Sept. 6, 2010
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever known. More than 500 years ago, da Vinci designed flying machines, robots, submarines, underwater breathing gear and solar-powered industries. Discover his genius and your own in this remarkable internationally acclaimed exhibition that displays over 60 models of da Vinci’s famous machines, inventions and designs.
Building Brainstorm –
May 29 - Sept. 6, 2010
Presented locally by VLK Architects
Step inside a design studio where you can explore what it’s like to be an architect, designer and engineer. Plan a dream home or a dog house, build a skyscraper model, find the best arrangement of an apartment model’s rooms and furniture, construct a structure you can crawl through, and much more in the bilingual exhibit. Designed for children 8 and under.
Mexico: Festival of Toys –
May 5 - August 10, 2010
Marvel at this colorful, interactive exhibition of more than 600 toys dating from the 1920s to the present day. The toys reveal the sprit of play and the beauty and craftsmanship behind an ancient and universal tradition of folk art in toy making.
Rotation –
Opens June 19, 2010
Discover geosynchronous orbits, experience angular momentum, observe a chaotic and unpredictable tornado, duck into a kaleidoscope, and tinker with tops, Kapla blocks, Spirographs and zoetropes. Rotation will have your head spinning and your curiosity sparked!
Call for reservations 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
817-255-9440 or toll-free 1-888-255-9300, ext. 440
