Featured Exhibits
In addition to the more than 450 interactive displays that explain science and demystify the world, NYSCI also presents seasonal featured art and science exhibits that capture the imagination of all ages.
Amazing Brains Virtual Exhibit
View high-resolution images of real brains from different species, to artistic portraits crafted out of brain cells.
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With 100,000 plus square feet of indoor exhibition space, NYSCI presents more than 450 interactive displays that explain science and demystify the world.
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Presented in the iconic Great Hall, Connected Worlds immerses visitors in a fantastical animated world where your actions – gestures, movements, and decisions – impact how well the world is kept in balance.
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Design Lab encourages visitors to be creative while experimenting with structures, circuits, simple materials and more.
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On Earth, wherever there is life, there is water. Are there other places in our solar system that might contain water and perhaps life?
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Explore ideas such as ecology, connected systems, sustainability and climate change through works created by artist-and-scientist teams.
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Installed in inside the entrance to NYSCI, Scattered Light plays with space, light, color and perception, and changes as sunlight shifts around the building.
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Preschool Place is the ideal space to explore, discover and build! Here our youngest visitors can experience multi-sensory activities in a safe, protected area.
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Explore the role of evolution and natural selection in health, illness, and prevention.
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What animals really think.
Through videos, games, and displays, discover the similarities between human and animal cognition.
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Seen through the eyes of Charlie, a young boy who is writing a report about his favorite bird—the kiwi, Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure offers an engaging story, exhibits, and activities that introduce visitors to the basics of evolution.
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Explore the sense of sight, learning how humans see and perceive color and light, and how what we think we see often may not be what is actually there.
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The "Queen of the Sciences" for its intrinsic beauty, mathematics mothers a host of sciences & disciplines. Designed for IBM in 1961 by world-renowned designers Charles and Ray Eames, Mathematica is the first interactive exhibition devoted to Math.
Outdoor Exhibits
NYSCI’s 60,000 square feet of outdoor space lets you experience the Science Playground and an up-close view at vintage Atlas and Titan rockets with a nine-hole miniature golf course—proving that play really is rocket science!
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Through dozens of playground elements like slides, seesaws, sand pits, and fog machines, visitors of all ages and abilities can explore the scientific principles of motion, balance, sound, sight and simple machines, as well as sun, wind, and water.
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Get a rare chance to explore some of the rockets and spacecraft that helped initiate the space race.
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Rocket Park Mini Golf reveals that the same laws of motion and gravity that guide the path of a spaceship control the motion of golf balls here on Earth.
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