The Museum of Science, Boston

One of the world's largest science centers, the Museum is ranked sixteenth among the "50 Overall Top-Rated Attractions" in the Zagat Survey's "U.S. Family Travel Guide" and one of the top two science museums nationwide. The Museum's interactive, hands-on exhibits and lively staff demonstrations show the excitement and relevance of science, engineering and technology in daily life. In 2001, the Museum launched the innovative Current Science & Technology Center (CS&T), which offers up-to-date science and technology news stories through staff and guest researcher presentations, exhibits and media. In 2004, the Museum launched the National Center for Technological Literacy (NCTL) to foster learning about how technologies are created and used by offering educational products and programs for pre-K-12 students and teachers, creating curricula, supporting an online resource center, and engaging in partnership and outreach with other institutions. As part of its mission of advancing technological literacy, the NCTL is also collaborating with other science centers across the country to create exhibits and programs that engage visitors in engineering, helps them explore cutting-edge technologies, and encourage them to consider and discuss the interactions between technology and society. In 2005, the Museum began renovating its Human Evolution exhibit. Located in the Human Body Connection Discovery Space, the exhibit explains evolution, exploring the evidence for it offered by life forms, fossils and genetics. Encountering live animals, computer interactives, and hands-on activities, Museum-goers investigate prehistoric stone tools, skull and skeletal models, and their own genes in a taste experiment to learn about evolution and natural selection.

For more information, visit www.mos.org.