This permanent exhibit gives visitors insight into how our bodies function. There are computer games in the Nutrition Cafe, Calorie Bicycles to explore how much energy one produces, and many other...

Explore the life and science of northwest Washington's large and ecologically diverse estuary, Puget Sound. See real tides and currents in action at the 100-square-foot scale model of the sound. See...

In 1909, nearly 4 million people attended the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition (AYP) at the University of Washington campus in Seattle. The exposition celebrated the explosion of development in...

See live creatures of all kinds, from the domestic to the exotic. Animal displays feature reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, including a colony of East African naked mole-rats.

Computers, robots, virtual reality and more! Challenge an industrial robot to a game of tic-tac-toe. Defend your team's goal in VR Keeper, the full- body virtual reality soccer experience.

For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of explorers, scientists and travelers. Its starkly beautiful landscape, extraordinary wildlife, and bitter climate are just the beginning of the...

Strap on your hiking boots to trek up the mountain and learn about Washington's forests. Climb past a waterfall and make your way through a cave full of bats and flowing lava. At the top, slide down a...

Th exhibition showcases significant buildings and interiors, furniture, glass, metalwork, ceramics, textiles, fine arts, graphics and book arts and photography with over one hundred objects drawn from...

Be "cause" this exhibit has great "effects," you will learn the fun of cause and effect in no time! Send balls through this busy cityscape using pulleys, pipes, mazes and levers.

Skipper the Good Ship See Worthy as you head for an adventure round the world. Visit a Tailor Shop in Ghana, travel around the Philippines on a tricycle or enjoy some sushi in Japan.

'Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound' will focus on the visitor experience and how Hendrix indelibly affected popular music with his unique talents and innovative sound.

This premiere of a nationally-touring exhibit will take visitors on a "road trip" through the American West to learn about the region's intriguing fossils and the stories they tell about the past...

Originally established in 1990, Imagination Studio is a drop-in art studio where artists and visitors work together to create art. The projects, developed by the artists and museum staff relate to...

Ahoy, infants and toddlers. Join the museum for a trip "under the sea" in Discovery Bay, an area aimed especially for the young visitors. Pull kelp, slide over a ferry boat and investigate fish in a...

Giant robotic insects, interactive exhibits and live animal displays give you a close-up look at the world of insects and other arthropods.

Spin a two-ton granite ball with your bare hands or walk in the giant water wheel in Water Works. Nearby, ride the High Rail Bicycle 15 feet above the ground -- on a rail one inch wide!

The collection at the Burke Museum includes 100,000 spiders, as well as other terrestrial invertebrates such as 37,000 butterflies and moths, and some 136,000 additional specimens including bees...

In 'Pacific Voices,' you'll learn about seventeen different Pacific Rim cultures and how they adapt and remain vibrant in a changing modern world. Here you can learn about the revival of a dying...

The Gunther Garden features plants important to Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. These plants were--and in many cases still are--used for food and medicine, and as the raw materials for...

The Genetic Resource Collection at the Burke Museum is essentially a "library" of biodiversity--and one of the most important in the world for birds. The Burke's GRC and the few others like it are the...

The herpetological collection at the Burke Museum contains 4,200 specimens of amphibians and reptiles, primarily from the Pacific Northwest. It is particularly strong in amphibians and garter snakes...

Archaeology is the scientific study of how people lived in the past through the objects they left behind. The Burke Museum Archaeology Collections include more than one million objects from around the...

'Life and Times of Washington State' is a hands-on adventure that begins 545 million years ago. Richly exotic, yet strangely familiar, this exhibit is a passport through the evolution of the state's...

Be here for the fun at feeding time. Naturalists will give short talks during feeding activities with the animals.

How does an electric motor work? What does a gyroscope do? How fast can you throw a baseball? Who wins the bubble race? Find the answers to these and other questions in the Science Playground.

Have you ever wondered how 3D movies are made? Or how some artists create incredibly realistic 3D images with only the use of paint and canvas? Pacific Science Center's 'Adventures in 3Dimensions'...

Enjoy year-round sunshine in the Tropical Butterfly House! Temperatures are in the low '80s, humidity is 60 to 70 percent, and full-spectrum lighting keeps the plants and butterflies healthy. Watch...

See yourself on TV as the Guest Meteorologist in the K5 First Alert Weather Center. Freeze your shadow on the Shadow Wall. Experiment with water at the stream table. And for the smallest scientist...

The University of Washington Herbarium (also known as WTU) is an international resource for research into the diversity, distribution and ecology of Pacific Northwest vascular plants, non-vascular...

The Burke's mineralogical collection is one of the finest on the Pacific Coast. The collection contains specimens of every major chemical group, and is particularly rich in silicates, carbonates...