You can touch, test, investigate and learn. Gallery educators and Science Museum volunteers are here to field questions or suggest related exhibits. Because the museum's exhibits focus on scientific process and phenomena, these areas provide many ways of meeting the Scientific Investigation, Reasoning and Logic strand outlined in the Virginia Standards of Learning. This area begins on the mezzanine and continues in the main concourse just behind the Electriworks gallery. This series of exhibits is designed to introduce many of the basic principles of physics.
Train cars come and go throughout the year.
Work on Discover Park has begun with the addition of a fitness trail. Future plans include a renovated 1918-vintage streetcar that will carry visitors on a loop around the park. Your students can observe the behavior of live fish or explore the link between natural cycles and behavior in the first two areas of the new Life Sciences galleries. Traveling Exhibitions Some of the museum's exhibitions are designed to travel to other museums and may not be available all year round. The Group Marketing Center can provide further information about these exhibitions when you book your visit.