Now, many of these presentations steal the spotlight on a brand-new stage in the Museum's Green Wing. Visitors design behaviors for their fish, launch their creations into the tank, and then see how the few simple rules they used to design their individual fish lead to complex behaviors and patterns for whole groups of fish. At another, visitors can turn themselves upside-down with a parabolic mirror. Visitors of all ages further explore the principles of light and optics in 18 additional hands-on activities throughout the exhibit space. They can experiment with refraction at the Lens Table, try Optical Pinball, and take apart color with prisms.
Visitors explore what light is, how it changes direction, and how color is made.
The Light House illuminates the truth behind common myths that surround the topic of light. Funded by the National Science Foundation. Learn about the myriad ways we communicate, from language, to music to codes. We rely on our senses to supply us with information about the world. At Seeing Is Deceiving, a permanent Museum exhibit now open in the Blue Wing, visitors will encounter dozens of visual and auditory illusions that explore the conflict between perception and reality.