The Very Quiet Cricket. Liberty Science Center, Liberty State Park, Exit 14B of the NJ Turnpike. Hosts numerous science-related activities and the nation's largest IMAX Dome screen. The Impolite Science of the Human Body' - Learn how your body produces mushy, oozy, scaly, stinky, altogether gross stories. Grandson James loved playing with the simulated fossilized reptile rib bones that you can assemble and disassemble from its rib cage, digging for fossils in a re-creation of a paleontological field site and reconfiguring a totem pole.
Older kids can track an earthquake on a seismograph and analyze astronomical images.
1109 Fifth Ave. Also on view are 13 stunning paintings by Yehuda Pen, Chagall's first teacher and initial artistic influence.