Word: exploratorium
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...pioneering Deutsches Museum, created in 1903. Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and Philadelphia's Franklin Institute brought the movement to the U.S. in the 1930s. Science centers took a giant leap forward, says Franklin's Dennis Wint, in 1969 when man walked on the moon and the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto ushered in the hands-on era by inviting museumgoers to explore science by pulling ropes, cranking levers and sounding gongs...
...museum of Science is worth the price. With the exception of San Francisco's Exploratorium, there probably is no other science museum in the U.S. as well-known as Boston's own. While it's too late to catch the DaVinci exhibit, the permanent collection is always worth a look, as is a new exhibit on special effects...
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