Exhibitions
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Building Imagination, Brick by Brick
Through January 2, 2025The Community Science Museum
Building Imagination: Brick by Brick is a bilingual exhibition featuring four exciting themes: Imaginative Play, Transportation & Neighborhoods, Cloud City, and Garden & Underground.
Each area invites visitors to explore creativity and innovation through immersive, hands-on experiences.
Maker Space
Through February 2, 2025The Community Science Museum
The Maker Space offers a dynamic environment where you can engage with a variety of real tools and materials to reimagine and create something new.
Here, we encourage you to think outside the box, experiment freely, and visit the endless possibilities of transforming everyday objects into something innovative. We believe that the creative process is not about perfection but discovery, and that making mistakes is an essential part of learning and growth.
Connected Worlds
Through March 10, 2025The Community Science Museum
Connected Worlds immerses visitors in a captivating, environment that illustrates how ecological systems are interconnected and rely on each other to maintain balance and health.
Through their own actions, gestures, and decisions, visitors control the flow of resources in this dynamic, evolving ecosystem. At NYSCI, this interactive experience empowers guests to visit the tools, skills, and big ideas that will shape the future of our planet.
The Big Bubble Experiment
Through April 2, 2025The Community Science Museum
The Big Bubble Experiment invites visitors to dive into a world of playful exploration and scientific discovery through the simple yet fascinating act of bubble-making.
This interactive experience allows you to engage with the science behind bubbles, learning about surface tension, air pressure, and the properties of different materials while having fun creating bubbles of all shapes and sizes. By blowing, shaping, and experimenting with various techniques, visitors can uncover the fascinating principles that make bubbles behave the way they do, all while sparking curiosity and joy in the process.
Powering the City
Through May 5, 2025The Community Science Museum
Powering the City invites visitors to visit the fascinating world of energy generation and distribution that powers our modern lives. Through a series of interactive exhibits, visitors will learn how a city's power grid works, discover how energy flows from its sources to our homes and businesses, and understand our role.
The exhibit also delves into key principles of energy transformation and efficiency, offering a hands-on opportunity to see how the science of energy connects to the world around us. At The Community Science Museum, visitors can bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world applications, gaining a deeper understanding of how energy shapes our daily lives and the future of our communities.
Design Lab
Through June 1, 2025The Community Science Museum
Design Lab invites you to take bold risks, collaborate, and gain fresh perspectives on engineering and design through hands-on challenges, raw materials, and opportunities to tackle real-world problems. Here, you will have the chance to not only visit creative solutions but also to engineer practical innovations that can make a difference.
In Design Lab, being a scientist or engineer is not just about knowledge, it's about the skills and ability to turn ideas into reality. This is where theory meets practice, and where you can learn how to apply your creativity and problem-solving skills to shape the world around you.
Exhibition Spaces
Cosmology
visit the wonders of our cosmos. Our fantastic exhibition, 'The Sky Above Us', visits the night sky and what we can see and know about the universe around us. We'll locate the various constellations and galaxies that can be seen and learn a bit about the early navigators who used the stars to travel by.
Follow the journey of our solar exploration: from early Arab traders, to Galileo's telescope, to the latest exploration of the planets in our solar system.
Evolution
For centuries, philosophers and scientists have wrestled with the question of our origins. Where do we come from and how did we get here? Since Darwin proposed his theory of evolution we have had a framework for exploring and understanding our place in this world.
Discover the origins of life on this planet and how the species we know today have evolved our time. You can also take some time to meet a few of the creatures who didn't survive, including our Woolly Mammoth, the Dodos, and a number of dinosaurs too.
Biology and Medicine
From micro-organisms to the human body, major breakthroughs in biology are offering us unique insights into the great wonders of the tiny world.
For many people their life expectancy is much longer and their quality of life much improved, thanks to the growth of our understanding of medicine. Over a series of exhibits we visit the history of medicine and take a look at some major breakthroughs including the discovery of penicillin and the first heart transplant.
Many of our great medicinal discoveries have come not only from the lab, but also from observing animals in the wild. Often our fellow creatures have beat us to it.
Robotics and AI
The information revolution is here and robotics and artificial intelligence are the science of the future. From useful home applications of AI to industrial uses of robotics, the future is here. You can even say hello and shake the hand of Rob the Robot.
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Career opportunities
The Community Science Museum has garnered widespread recognition both nationally and internationally for its outstanding commitment to fulfilling its social mission...
The museum has been praised for its innovative approach to education and engagement, making science accessible and enjoyable for people of all ages. Its dedication to fostering curiosity and learning has earned it numerous accolades, and it has been voted as Oslo's best experience for children.
Internships
Are you interested in working in a museum? Do you enjoy the fun and excitement of sharing the wonders of nature with people?..
Well you could be just the right person to enjoy an internship at the museum.
Volunteer
A number of people volunteer their time and effort to keep the displays in good order and ready for visitors to come and enjoy...
Volunteering has its perks including getting to see behind the scenes of a working museum, access to staff-only lectures, and a monthly lunch where all staff and volunteers come together to discuss ideas for future exhibits and strategies for the museum.You can help volunteer in a number of different spheres. Please contact us if you'd like to find out more about how you can get involved.