Ride a hovercraft to experience air pressure; float a boat to experiment with air flow. Lift, launch, and levitate your way through hands-on exhibits to explore how things move by land, sea, and air. Experiment with hands-on exhibits that make learning about gravity, friction, and the laws of motion fun!

Visitors can launch a colorful hot air balloon, operate an authentic canal lock system to move a boat from one water level to the next and experiment with pneumatics, pulleys, hydraulics, and levers to see what kind of mechanical advantage works best. One hundred feet of Air Tubes allow visitors to send colored balls in a rushing channel of air from one station to another. Visitors can watch the balls as they dart across walls, over their heads, and appear at the other station in record time.

*Images shown are from a previous installation and may differ from the exhibit’s presentation at our museum.