Mid-America Science Museum
A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate, this is a hands-on museum where visitors are invited to explore at their own pace and encouraged to interact with over 100 exhibits that demonstrate the concepts of perception, energy, matter and life.
501-767-3461
Ponca Elk Education Center
Want to find out about the largest mammal in Arkansas? Where can you view herds of elk along the Buffalo River Valley? These questions can be answered at the new Ponca Elk Education Center which houses an exhibit area focusing on elk ecology, wildlife and area information. 870-861-2432. . REGION: NORTH.
Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Fernbank Museum of Natural History inspires life-long learning of natural history through dynamic programming to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its people.(404) 929-6300.
Fernbank Science Center
Fernbank contains many materials for instruction, including dinosaur skeletons, rocks and minerals, a collection of tektites, an Aeronautics Education Laboratory and an electron microscope lab.678-874-7102.
Tellus Northwest Georgia Science Museum
Tellus is a world-class 120,000 square foot science museum that contains four main galleries: The Weinman Mineral Gallery, The Fossil Gallery, Science in Motion and The Collins Family My Big Backyard.(770) 606-5732.
Baltimore Public Works Museum
Exhibits, videos, interactive computer challenges and Streetscape, an outdoor maze to explore the city's infrastructure underground. 410-396-5565.
Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center features full-size dinosaurs, dozens of hands-on activities and experiments, national touring exhibits, IMAX Theater, Kids Room and planetarium. 410-545-5962.
Port Discovery, The Children's Museum in Baltimore
Port Discovery Children's Museum offers three floors of educational and fun-filled exhibits and programs for children ages 2-10 and is ranked among the TOP 5 children's museums in the US. 410-727-8120.
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science Greenwich
The Bruce Museum promotes the understanding and appreciation of Art and Science to enrich the lives of all people.
Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT (203-869-0376)
Earthplace - The Nature Discovery Center
Maintains a 62-acre wildlife sanctuary with trails, contains an interactive natural history museum and houses live wildlife.
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
The Stamford Museum & Nature Center is a collection of venues that can occupy summer camp visitors for hours. We have a Farm, Museum, Nature Trails, Natural Playground, Picnic Area and a Planetarium. Tel. 203-322-1646. REGION: South West CT.
Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Stepping Stones Museum for Children invites children to explore, imagine, create and discover new experiences every time they visit! Norwalk, CT. Tel: 203-899-0606.
Timexpo: The Timex Museum
The Timexpo - The Timex Museum is an educational tool and resource center with many opportunities for your campers to learn in a fun hands-on environment. 203-755-8463.
Dallas Museum of Natural History
The museum has played a significant role in documenting, describing and showcasing Texas’ vast natural diversity. 214-421-3466. REGION: NORTH TEXAS
Frontiers of Flight Museum
Experience the story of those who went Higher, Faster, Farther, First in Aviation & Aerospace. 214-350-1651. Dallas, NORTH TEXAS.
The Science Place
The number one leader in field-experiences for students, for more information click on The Science Place. Tel: 214-428-5555 x 225. Dallas, North Texas.
Hagley Museum’s DuPont Science and Discovery Exhibit
Offers visitors a look at 200 years of DuPont Company history. Wilmington, DE 19807. 302-658-2400. REGION: New Castle County, Northern DE.
Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Fernbank Museum of Natural History inspires life-long learning of natural history through dynamic programming to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its people.(404) 929-6300.
Museum of Arts & Sciences
Featuring an artist's garret, humanist's study, scientist's workshop and enclosed animal habitat where young and old can experiment with each discipline in a fun, larger than life atmosphere. 478-477-3232.
Telfair Museums
Permanent collection of paintings, photography, sculpture, and decorative arts contains over 4,500 objects from America and Europe, dating from the 18th-20th centuries.
The National Science Center's Fort Discovery
Discover the fun of hands-on science! This 128,000 square-foot math and science center fires the imaginations by making math, science and technology come alive.
Cradle of Aviation Museum
When camp groups visit the museum there is magic in the air as campers experience Long Island’s amazing aerospace heritage of discovery. Long Island's Only Giant Screen IMAX® Theater Garden City. Tel: 516-572-4066.
Long Island Children's Museum
Hands on exhibits on the arts, literacy, science, social studies and a special exhibit on the physically challenged. Tel: 516-224-5800. REGION: LONG ISLAND NY.
Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum is the former summer residence of William K. Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Staten Island Ferry and New York Central Railroad. 631-854-5539. www.vanderbiltmuseum.org.
Louisiana Art & Science Museum
Features fine art exhibitions, interactive art and science exhibits, an Egyptian gallery and a Challenger Learning Center. Building is a 1920’s train depot with five-car train on-site. Baton Rouge, REGION: south east. 225-344-5272
Louisiana State Oil & Gas Museum
The importance of the oil industry and its 1900 boom town is detailed as well as early Caddo Indian relics. Tel: 318-995-6845. Oil City, REGION: NORTH WEST.
Rivertown Museums & Attractions
Kenner’s Rivertown encompasses the Daily Living Science Center, Space Station, Planetarium & Observatory, Wildlife & Fisheries, Cannes Brulees Native American Center, Mardi Gras Museum, Saints Hall of Fame. 504-468-7231. REGION: South East.
Sci-Port Discovery Center
Interactive educational museum focused on animals, biology and entomology. Tel: 318-424-3466. Shreveport, REGION: NORTH WEST.
Bar Harbor Whale Museum
The Bar Harbor whale museum's gift shop offers an extensive collection of marine mammal field guides, adult and children books on marine mammal science and biology and educational toys and gifts related to the marine environment.
Castine Scientific Society dba Wilson Museum
The Wilson Museum uses its diverse collections and learning experiences to stimulate exploration of the natural history and cultures of the Penobscot Bay region and the world.
Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine
The Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine exists to inspire discovery and imagination through exploration and play. Tel: 207-828-1234.
L.C.Bates Museum of Natural History and Culture
The L.C. Bates Museum houses unique natural history and culture collections. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 207-238-4250.
Nylander Museum
The museum was originally designed to house the collections of Olof O. Nylander, a self-taught naturalist from Oremolla, Skifvarps, Sweden. Tel: 207-493-4209
Penobscot Marine Museum
The principal exhibits at Penobscot Marine Museum focus on the industry of Penobscot Bay in the 19th century and illustrate what it was like to live and work on one of the great square-rigged ships in the last quarter of the 19th century, and to visit China when it truly was exotic.
The Northern Maine Museum of Maine
Large collections of marine and fresh-water sea shells, local forestry specimens and the beginnings of our herbarium. 207-768-9482.
Wendell Gilley Museum
The Wendell Gilley Museum teaches the art of bird carving and presents art exhibitions and educational programs with a special focus on people, nature and art.
Baltimore Public Works Museum
Exhibits, videos, interactive computer challenges and Streetscape, an outdoor maze to explore the city's infrastructure underground. 410-396-5565.
Maryland Science Center
The Maryland Science Center features full-size dinosaurs, dozens of hands-on activities and experiments, national touring exhibits, IMAX Theater, Kids Room and planetarium. 410-545-5962.
Port Discovery, The Children's Museum in Baltimore
Port Discovery Children's Museum offers three floors of educational and fun-filled exhibits and programs for children ages 2-10 and is ranked among the TOP 5 children's museums in the US. 410-727-8120.
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
The museum is housed in a 17,000 square foot building on its own 80-acre site and abutted by 320 acres of town- and conservation-owned land.
Egan Maritime Institute
On the premises of the Coffin School on Nantucket, the Egan Maritime Institute maintains a collection of fine art, maritime books, and artifacts related to the maritime world that have been collected by both founders and several generous donors.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is the most visited attraction at Harvard because of its historical collections, temporary exhibitions, and new permanent galleries.
Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center
From the founding of Mass Audubon in 1896, the organization has been inextricably linked with art. Named for John James Audubon, the legendary painter of American birds, Mass Audubon quite naturally was the recipient of generous gifts and bequests of artworks.
Massachusetts Air & Space Museum Inc.
The Massachusetts Air & space Museum presents an aerospace past, present, and future through physical artifacts, digital images, archival records, displays of aircraft, spacecraft, spacecraft, aerospace systems and equipment.
Nantucket Historical Association
Permanent exhibitions contain the skeleton of a forty-six foot male sperm whale, a collection of ceremonial implements and various weapons, spears, and armor from other South Seas islands, portraits of whaling captains and merchants by William Swain and James Hathaway, rare sperm whale teeth engraved by Frederick Myrick and Edward Burdett, and dazzling specimens of swifts, busks, canes, jagging wheels, coconut-shell dippers, ditty boxes, furniture tools, Arctic ivory, and plaques.
Springfield Museums
The Springfield Museums, home of the Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden, offers five museums of fun-filled, educational exhibits and programs.
The Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Cape Cod Maritime Museum's second major exhibit explores life on Cape Cod both from European and Native Peoples' perspectives.
The Chatham Historical Society
The Chatham Historical Society, founded in 1923, features 3000 objects-paintings, decorative arts, and maritime artifacts.
Mount Washington Observatory Weather Discovery Center
An interactive science museum about weather and the extreme climate and atmosphere of Mount Washington. Tel: 603-356-2137
The Children's Museum of New Hampshire
Children's museum of learning and play featuring several interactive exhibits and class trips for grades Pre-K-6. Tel: 603-742-2002
Insectropolis Toms River
Insectropolis is a unique, interactive bug museum that is both entertaining and educational for visitors of all ages and interest levels. 732-349-7090
Liberty Science Center
Wow campers with 100’s of unique interactive exhibits, real science labs, hands on experiments and the nation’s largest IMAX Dome Theater- a full day of excitement and fun.
The Newark Museum
Eighty innovative galleries offering visitors opportunity to encounter world-class art and science collections that are entertaining, engaging and fun! Highlights include renowned American and Tibetan collections, The Ballantine House, Planetarium and Mini Zoo. Featured exhibitions: Body Wars: Fighting Infection, Staying Healthy - kids learn about disease causing germs and microorganisms with the use of computer games, video animations and discovery panels. Museum cafe, shop and parking located on-site.
American Museum of Natural History & The Rose Center for Earth and Space
Over 42 Exhibition Halls, a giant IMAX Theater,the famed Hayden PLANETARIUM and the Rose Center for Earth and Special Exhibits: The Horse - This exhibition demonstrates the powerful and continuing relationship between the horse and humans. American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street and Central Park West, NYC. Tel: 212-769-5100
Bodies...The Exhibition
BODIES. . . THE EXHIBITION is an educational science and anatomy exhibit that features real human bodies. Now your campers can experience the human body like never before! 1-888-507-6909.
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Enjoy action-packed, hands-on exhibits and programs in world culture and natural science. Explore people and places, the environment, music, plants, animals, and ideas from near and far in the Museum's nine interactive galleries. Brooklyn, NY. Tel: 718-735-4400.
Ripley's Believe it or Not!
The world’s most fascinating, exciting and oddly educational attraction has redefined extraordinary with their new location in the heart of Times Square.
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Today and tomorrows communications technology. Hands on activities including action as talent for TV Production, surfing the web, DVD features in the 72 seat theater. Tel: 212-833-8100.
The Paley Center for Media
This unique Museum (formerly known as the Museum of Television and Radio) collects programming—radio shows, television programs, and commercial advertisements in both media—and makes that programming available to families and school and camp groups.
The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street, NYC. (212-621-6600)
Buffalo Museum of Science
The Buffalo Museum of Science offers authentic science programming to its community, area schools and families focusing on the natural sciences. 716-896-5200.
Empire State Aerosciences Museum
Our mission is to educate, entertain and excite with experiences in Air and Space. The Museum occupies nine buildings on twenty-seven acres of land on the western perimeter of the Schenectady County Airport, an ideal environment in which to present the history of aviation, especially that which occurred in New York. Glenville, NY. Tel: 518-377-2191. For more information click on name.
Erie Canal Discovery Center
A new state-of-the-art interpretive center for the Erie Canal, focusing on the role that Lockport played in canal history. 716-439-0431.
Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum
The museum tells the story of Western New York's unique aviation and aerospace heritage through the acquisition, preservation and display of aviation artifacts. 716-858-4340.
Niagara Power Project's Power Vista
Features more than 50 interactive exhibits about hydroelectricity and an observation deck perched 350 feet above the Niagara River Gorge. 716-286-6661.
Niagara Science Museum
The Niagara Science Museum (NSM) is a sanctuary for the preservation and appreciation of old science instruments and philosophical apparatus.
Salt Museum
Discover the industry that created the City of Syracuse and supplied the nation with salt! Explore the site of an original boiling block where brine was turned into salt. 315-453-6713.
Martin Park Nature Center
A 140-acre nature park that combines recreation, education and wildlife. It features a hands-on nature museum highlighting the animal life, flora and fauna of Oklahoma. 405-755-0676. Oklahoma City, CENTRAL..
Oklahoma Museum of History
Museum of History presents a comprehensive historical overview of Oklahoma, from prehistoric times to oil field wildcatters to the space program. (405) -521-2491.
Oklahoma Oil Museum
Museum features oil field equipment, historic photos, authentic housing from the 1800s, and many other items relating to the oil boom days in Oklahoma. Central Region: Seminole.
Omniplex
The complex houses several museums (hands-on science exhibits and air & space artifacts, Red Earth Indian Center, and the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum), a planetarium, gardens and greenhouses. 800-532-7652. REGION: CENTRAL.
Richard O. Dodrill's Museum of Rocks, Minerals & Fossils
Featuring 7,000 square feet of rocks, minerals, fossils, artifacts and Oklahoma history. Items include a fossilized bison skull, wooly mammoth hair and teeth, fluorescent rocks, meteorites, gemstones and much more. Central region: Cushing. Tel: 918-225-0707.
Tulsa Zoo And Living Museum
The Tulsa Zoo is unique for combining animal exhibits with natural history museum exhibits, offering an exciting journey into the natural world. 918-669-6600. North East Region: Tulsa.
Orlando Science Center
Orlando Science Center-is 207,000 square-foot "hands-on" learning center with hundreds of interactives for all ages. Orlando. Tel: 407-514-2000.
Erie County History Center
An organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation and presentation of the rich history of Erie and adjacent regions including Lake Erie and its maritime traditions. Venues include museums, library and a planetarium. 814-454-1813.
Reading Public Museum
The Reading Public Museum is a unique museum featuring art galleries, cultural and natural science exhibits, and even has its own planetarium! Tel: 610-371-5850
Tom Ridge Environmental Center
The Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC) is an educational center at heart, dedicated to teaching visitors about the unique 3,200 acres of Presque Isle. 814-833-7424.
Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History
The museum focuses on the natural history and culture of South Texas, including relics from a 1554 shipwreck, recreations of two of the three ships used for Columbus’s voyage to the New World, an interactive weather station, a children’s section with marine activities and numerous artifacts. 361-883-2862. Corpus Christi, South & Gulf Coast.
Crater Museum
Visit the Odessa meteor crater, the second largest meteor crater in the US. Landed around 50,000 yrs ago and was 550 ft in diameter and 100 ft deep. 432-381-0946. West Odessa, West Texas.
Dallas Museum of Natural History
The museum has played a significant role in documenting, describing and showcasing Texas’ vast natural diversity. 214-421-3466. REGION: NORTH TEXAS
Frontiers of Flight Museum
Experience the story of those who went Higher, Faster, Farther, First in Aviation & Aerospace. 214-350-1651. Dallas, NORTH TEXAS.
River Legacy Living Science Center
The 12,000-square-foot River Legacy Living Science Center, terraria, aquaria and interactive exhibits introduce visitors to the natural world. The Center’s exhibits, programs and activities encourage the appreciation of our natural resources, while emphasizing the importance of preservation and restoration for years to come. 817-860-6752. NORTH TEXAS.
The Science Place
The number one leader in field-experiences for students, for more information click on The Science Place. Tel: 214-428-5555 x 225. Dallas, North Texas.
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium is a museum of natural science and history as weoll as Vermont's only public planetarium. Tel: 802-748-2372
Montshire Museum of Science
The Montshire Museum houses several permanent and revolving exhibits relating to the natural and physical sciences, ecology, and technology. A hands-on museum, the outdoor environment is a large part of the visitor experience. Tel: 802-649-2200.
