Then visit NOAA's new Interactive Lighthouse featuring eight computer kiosks where you can browse the Internet and view, in real time, a variety of information pertinent to the National Ocean Services. The touch screen operated Lighthouse is located on the third deck of Nauticus. The exhibit is organized by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The U.S. Navy in the Era of Violent Peace . Through October 29 This exhibition, at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum located on the second deck of Nauticus, showcases artifacts and photographs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during its humanitarian and peacekeeping operations over the past 15 years.
Admission is free.
The exhibit not only inspires, but also teaches budding scientists how to chart out academic and career paths in the science field. This traveling exhibit was developed by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The medium of holography graphically conveys many of the scientific and artistic concepts of light and color, as well as the technical aspects of lasers and optics. The works will excite and educate you with three-dimensional images of incredible depth. Lasers and photography have been combined to develop amazing technological art pieces that allow the audience to experience illusion, real and virtual imagery, transmission, reflection, refraction, and interference.