Aerospace Education Center
Your adventure awaits at the Aerospace Education Center Museum. Enjoy the history of aeronautics and see beautifully restored aircraft and artifacts representing Arkansas aviation and much more. 501-376-4629

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Mid-America Science Museum
A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate, this is a hands-on museum where visitors are invited to explore at their own pace and encouraged to interact with over 100 exhibits that demonstrate the concepts of perception, energy, matter and life. 501-767-3461

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Fernbank Museum of Natural History


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Baltimore Public Works Museum
Exhibits, videos, interactive computer challenges and Streetscape, an outdoor maze to explore the city's infrastructure underground. 410-396-5565.

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Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center features full-size dinosaurs, dozens of hands-on activities and experiments, national touring exhibits, IMAX Theater, Kids Room and planetarium. 410-545-5962.

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Mashantucket Pequot Museum
& Research Center
A visit to the Pequot Museum is an adventure! Journey back in time to see and feel history come alive as never before. 860-396-6945.

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Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Conveniently located in Mathews Park, offering families access to green grass and fresh air. The award-winning building serves as exhibit itself topped by the museum's whimsical tower - its windows are eyes, ears and a mouth; its nose is a sundial; its hat a birdcage where flights of fancy are hatched; and the hat has a "feathervane" in honor of the local folk hero, Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Stepping Stones Museum for Children, Mathews Park, 303 West Avenue, Norwalk, (203-899-0606).

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The Dinosaur Place, Montville
A family oriented activity center featuring activities with fossils, lifesize dinosaurs, gems, rocks and minerals, perfect for school trips, scout badges, birthdays, and family trips. Children of all ages can dig for gems and crystals in Jackpot Mine, pan for “gold” in Thunder Creek and excavate a dinosaur skeleton in The Bone Zone.
The Dinosaur Place, 1650 Route 85, Montville, CT (860-443-4367).

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The Discovery Museum and Planetarium Bridgeport
Hands-on Brains-On Learning! Experience the wonder of science discovery through interactive permanent and traveling exhibits, first class lessons aligned with CT science standards, planetarium shows and CT’s only Challenger Learning Center.

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Timexpo: The Timex Museum
The Timexpo® The Timex Museum is an educational tool with many opportunities for your group to learn in a fun hands-on environment.

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Frontiers of Flight Museum
Experience the story of those who went Higher, Faster, Farther, First in Aviation & Aerospace. 214-350-1651. Dallas, NORTH TEXAS.

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Coca-Cola Space Science Center
Interactive exhibits in space science, physics, and astronomy; flight simulators and an Omnisphere Theater planetarium.

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Fernbank Museum of Natural History


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Museum of Arts & Sciences
Featuring an artist's garret, humanist's study, scientist's workshop and enclosed animal habitat where young and old can experiment with each discipline in a fun, larger than life atmosphere. 478-477-3232.

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Rock Springs Nature Center
The museum exhibits are designed to teach about the natural history of Macon County. 217-423-7708.

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Telfair Museums
Permanent collection of paintings, photography, sculpture, and decorative arts contains over 4,500 objects from America and Europe, dating from the 18th-20th centuries.

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The National Science Center's Fort Discovery
Discover the fun of hands-on science! This 128,000 square-foot math and science center fires the imaginations by making math, science and technology come alive.

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Cradle of Aviation Museum
When school groups visit the museum there is magic in the air as students and teachers experience Long Island’s amazing aerospace heritage of discovery. Garden City. Tel: 516-572-4066.

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Long Island Children's Museum
14 hands-on exhibits on the arts, literacy, science, social studies and a special exhibit on the physically challenged. Tel: 516-224-5800. REGION: LONG ISLAND NY.

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Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum is the former summer residence of William K. Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Staten Island Ferry and New York Central Railroad.

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Bar Harbor Whale Museum
The Bar Harbor whale museum's gift shop offers an extensive collection of marine mammal field guides, adult and children books on marine mammal science and biology and educational toys and gifts related to the marine environment.

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Castine Scientific Society dba Wilson Museum
The Wilson Museum uses its diverse collections and learning experiences to stimulate exploration of the natural history and cultures of the Penobscot Bay region and the world.

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L.C.Bates Museum of Natural History and Culture
The L.C. Bates Museum houses unique natural history and culture collections. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 207-238-4250.

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Nylander Museum
The museum was originally designed to house the collections of Olof O. Nylander, a self-taught naturalist from Oremolla, Skifvarps, Sweden. Tel: 207-493-4209

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Penobscot Marine Museum
The principal exhibits at Penobscot Marine Museum focus on the industry of Penobscot Bay in the 19th century and illustrate what it was like to live and work on one of the great square-rigged ships in the last quarter of the 19th century, and to visit China when it truly was exotic.

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The Northern Maine Museum of Maine
Large collections of marine and fresh-water sea shells, local forestry specimens and the beginnings of our herbarium. 207-768-9482.

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Wendell Gilley Museum
The Wendell Gilley Museum teaches the art of bird carving and presents art exhibitions and educational programs with a special focus on people, nature and art.

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Baltimore Public Works Museum
Exhibits, videos, interactive computer challenges and Streetscape, an outdoor maze to explore the city's infrastructure underground. 410-396-5565.

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Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center features full-size dinosaurs, dozens of hands-on activities and experiments, national touring exhibits, IMAX Theater, Kids Room and planetarium. 410-545-5962.

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Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
The museum is housed in a 17,000 square foot building on its own 80-acre site and abutted by 320 acres of town- and conservation-owned land.

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Egan Maritime Institute
On the premises of the Coffin School on Nantucket, the Egan Maritime Institute maintains a collection of fine art, maritime books, and artifacts related to the maritime world that have been collected by both founders and several generous donors.

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Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is the most visited attraction at Harvard because of its historical collections, temporary exhibitions, and new permanent galleries.

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Martha's Vineyard Museum
The object collections at the museum include over 30,000 items relating to all aspects of life on Martha's Vineyard.

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Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center
From the founding of Mass Audubon in 1896, the organization has been inextricably linked with art. Named for John James Audubon, the legendary painter of American birds, Mass Audubon quite naturally was the recipient of generous gifts and bequests of artworks.

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Massachusetts Air & Space Museum Inc.
The Massachusetts Air & space Museum presents an aerospace past, present, and future through physical artifacts, digital images, archival records, displays of aircraft, spacecraft, spacecraft, aerospace systems and equipment.

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Nantucket Historical Association
Permanent exhibitions contain the skeleton of a forty-six foot male sperm whale, a collection of ceremonial implements and various weapons, spears, and armor from other South Seas islands, portraits of whaling captains and merchants by William Swain and James Hathaway, rare sperm whale teeth engraved by Frederick Myrick and Edward Burdett, and dazzling specimens of swifts, busks, canes, jagging wheels, coconut-shell dippers, ditty boxes, furniture tools, Arctic ivory, and plaques.

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The Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Cape Cod Maritime Museum's second major exhibit explores life on Cape Cod both from European and Native Peoples' perspectives.

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The Chatham Historical Society
The Chatham Historical Society, founded in 1923, features 3000 objects-paintings, decorative arts, and maritime artifacts.

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Adventure Aquarium Camden
Adventure Aquarium features nearly 200,000 square feet of sea and wildlife. View over sixty different exhibits that are filled with exotic and amazing creatures.800-616-JAWS

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Franklin Mineral Museum
Discover all about fluorescent rocks and minerals found in NJ’s “Fluorescent Mineral Capital of the World”. 973-827-3481

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Imagine That Children's Museum Florham Park
A hands-on 16,000 square feet museum. Over 50 exhibits. Florham Park, NJ. Tel: 973-966-8000.

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Insectropolis Toms River
Insectropolis is a unique, interactive bug museum that is both entertaining and educational for visitors of all ages and interest levels. 732-349-7090

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Bodies...The Exhibition
BODIES. . . THE EXHIBITION is an educational science and anatomy exhibit that features real human bodies. Now your campers can experience the human body like never before! 1-888-507-6909.

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FDNY Fire Zone
The FDNY Fire Zone is state-of-the-art Fire Safety learning center. Manhattan. Tel: 212-698-4520.

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New York City Center for Space Science Education
The Center for Space Science Education is a Department of Education facility offering opportunities for simulated exploration and excitement.

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New York Transit Museum Brooklyn
Housed in an historic 1936 subway station in Brooklyn Heights, this is the nation's largest museum devoted to public transportation history, and one of the premier institutions of its kind in the world.

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Ripley's Believe it or Not!
Located in the heart of Times Square, Ripley's offers visitors the ultimate insight into the world of the odd and bizarre.

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Buffalo Museum of Science
The Buffalo Museum of Science offers authentic science programming to its community, area schools and families focusing on the natural sciences. 716-896-5200.

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Erie Canal Discovery Center
A new state-of-the-art interpretive center for the Erie Canal, focusing on the role that Lockport played in canal history. 716-439-0431.

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Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum
The museum tells the story of Western New York's unique aviation and aerospace heritage through the acquisition, preservation and display of aviation artifacts. 716-858-4340.

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Kopernik Observatory & Science Center
From its 1,700 foot hilltop, the Kopernik Observatory offers three domed observatories and four classroom labs for specified subjects such as: space science, physics, earth science and computers. Tel: 607-748-3685.

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Museum of Science & Technology
Science and technology museum, inspiring all generations through hands-on exhibits and activities. 315-425-9068.

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New York City Center for Space Science Education
The Center for Space Science Education is a Department of Education facility offering opportunities for simulated exploration and excitement.

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Niagara Science Museum
The Niagara Science Museum (NSM) is a sanctuary for the preservation and appreciation of old science instruments and philosophical apparatus.

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Salt Museum
Discover the industry that created the City of Syracuse and supplied the nation with salt! Explore the site of an original boiling block where brine was turned into salt. 315-453-6713.

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The Sam Noble
Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
Featuring 50,000 square feet of exciting dinosaur exhibits, detailed nature dioramas, and exhibits showcasing Oklahoma’s Native American cultures both ancient and modern.405-325-4712

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Erie County History Center
An organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation and presentation of the rich history of Erie and adjacent regions including Lake Erie and its maritime traditions. Venues include museums, library and a planetarium. 814-454-1813.

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Tom Ridge Environmental Center
The Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC) is an educational center at heart, dedicated to teaching visitors about the unique 3,200 acres of Presque Isle. 814-833-7424.

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Fennessey Ranch
Visit 4,000 continuous acres of the Texas Gulf Coast wetlands. Observe unique estuary and plains ecosystems, track indigenous animals and identify native vegetation. Tel: 361-529-6600.

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Frontiers of Flight Museum
Experience the story of those who went Higher, Faster, Farther, First in Aviation & Aerospace. 214-350-1651. Dallas, NORTH TEXAS.

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Mayborn Planetarium & Space Theater
For an out-of-this-world field trip, visit the Mayborn Planetarium and Space Theater, on the campus of Central Texas College in Killeen. Tel: 254-526-1671. REGION: Bell County, South Central TX.

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McDonald Observatory
Explore the universe with your students at the McDonald Observatory! Fort Davis. Tel: 432-426-3672. REGION: Jeff Davis County, West TX.

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The Planetarium at UT Arlington
2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the introduction of the telescope to astronomy. Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy with a visit to a planetarium.

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