Zeiss Star Pojector

The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum houses the largest collection of aircrafts and spacecrafts in the world.

This museum features many fascinating exhibits including a recently-opened, in depth evolution exhibit. This exceptional, interactive exhibit features personal artifacts of Charles Darwin and a collection of his discoveries and works.

The Exploratorium is known for its interactive exhibits. At any given time, this informal learning center features around 600 participatory exhibits.

The Neil Armstrong Museum features a F5 Skydancer, the Gemini 8 spacecraft, Apollo 11 artifacts and moonrocks. The outside of the building is made to resemble to moon, itself.

Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit created by Gunther Van Hagens, who invented a plastination technique to preserve real human bodies. The exhibit features real human bodies doing different physical and mental activities, allowing people to see the exact nature of the inside of the human body.

 

This amazing exhibition combines science with art. At the facility, you can see Chihuly’s beautiful works, as well as videos of the science behind his working process.

 

12. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Ill.

The Science of Storms exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago reveals the science behind seven natural phenomena — lightning, fire, tornados, avalanches, tsunamis, sunlight and atoms in motion. The exhibit also contains more than 50 interactive experiments.

 

13. The Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, Calif.

The Hale Telescope, built by Caltech, has discovered distant objects at the edges of the known universe, given us the first direct evidence of stars in distant galaxies, and shown us thousands of asteroids.