Innovative Science Exhibits

Captivating images of modern science exhibits and installations in museums, combining technology and education in sleek designs.

Solar furnace, PSA, Plataforma Solar de Almeria, center for the research of solar energy by the DLR, German Aerospace Center, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain
Solar furnace, PSA, Plataforma Solar de Almeria, center for the research of solar energy by the DLR, German Aerospace Center, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain
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England, London, The Wellcome Collection, The Reading Room, German Pohl Omniskop X-ray Machine dated 1925
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Moon Globe, based on images from automatic stations Luna-3, Zond-4, Zond-5, Zond-6, Zond-7 and Zond-8. The Soviet automatic station Luna-3 was the first to return images of the lunar far side on October 7, 1959. Signal acquisition was carried out in Crimea, Simeiz Observatory. Between 1965 and 1970 spacecraft Zond-4 - Zond-8 continued exploration of the Moon and obtained photographs from a distance of 1500 km and 9500 km. The first map of the lunar far sidewith hundreds of surface details identified by their reflection characteristics was based on collected materials. Full catalog of these details was included in the "Atlas of the far side of the Moon" (1960).
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model of Leonardo Da Vinci's mechanism, for the transformation of Circular Motion. proved to be extremely useful, especially for machines used in the textile industry. based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist and polymath. Madrid Codex I, folio 29 v.
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Inflatable airlock from Voskhod 2, a Soviet manned space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock. It established another milestone in space exploration when Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave the spacecraft in a specialized spacesuit to conduct a 12-minute "spacewalk"
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prehistoric burial recreation prehistoric burial recreation, Gilena Museum Collection, Ecomuseum/Arqueodromo Molino de La Casería, province of Seville, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21728920
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JWST Full-Scale Model on Display.A full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope was built by the prime contractor, Northrop Grumman, to provide a better understanding of the size, scale and complexity of this satellite. The model is constructed mainly of aluminum and steel, weighs 12,000 lb., and is approximately 80 feet long, 40 feet wide and 40 feet tall. The model requires 2 trucks to ship it and assembly takes a crew of 12 approximately four days. This model has travelled to a few sites since 2005. The photographs below were taken at some of its destinations. The model is pictured here in Munich, Germany
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The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope just over 1,000 feet (305 m) across, the largest single radio telescope. The main metal collecting dish sits fixed a hemispherical karst sinkhole. Because it is fixed, a spherical reflector hangs 500 feet (150 m) over the dish on a 900 ton platform, known as 'the feed'. Technicians in a basket hang in a small cable car on their way to the feed. The observatory is the primary location of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, NAIC.
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Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, Sidney, BC, Canada
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The world's first blue Phalaenopsis moth orchird created
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model of mechanism that transformed Alternating Motion into "circular motion", which led a toothed wheel to always turn in the same direction, through the "alternating" motion created by the two toothed rods that held them in place. based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist and polymath. Madrid Codex I. folio 123 r.
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DF-ST-90-00610. Base: Kennedy Space Center State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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S69-32396 (4 April 1969) --- Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Lunar Module (LM) 5 being moved from work stand for mating with its Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA). LM-5 is scheduled to be flown on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
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Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden
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A view of the inside of the Mars rover concept, developed by vehicle designers, the Parker Brothers, with advice from NASA, is seen here during the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museums Mars Day, an annual event celebrating the Red Planet with exhibits, speakers, and educational activities, Friday, July 21, 2017 in Washington. The Mars rover concept is currently on an East Coast tour from its home base at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center in Florida, and is designed to engage and educate the public by demonstrating the types of features and equipment a future human exploration vehicle may need.
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laboratory laboratory, Paleontological Center , Enciso, La Rioja , Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21624669
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Visitors looking at film and findings brought back up from the Titanic wreck at the Cite de la Mer, maritime museum in Cherbourg, Normandy, France, Europe
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Yuri's Night 2009 held at the California Acaemy of Sciences in San Francisco, California
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Moon Globe, based on images from automatic stations Luna-3, Zond-4, Zond-5, Zond-6, Zond-7 and Zond-8. The Soviet automatic station Luna-3 was the first to return images of the lunar far side on October 7, 1959. Signal acquisition was carried out in Crimea, Simeiz Observatory. Between 1965 and 1970 spacecraft Zond-4 - Zond-8 continued exploration of the Moon and obtained photographs from a distance of 1500 km and 9500 km. The first map of the lunar far sidewith hundreds of surface details identified by their reflection characteristics was based on collected materials. Full catalog of these details was included in the "Atlas of the far side of the Moon" (1960).
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Auditorium during presentation with visitors. First Light Pavilion - Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, United Kingdom. Architect: HASSELL, 2022.
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Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters speaks in front of the Hyperwall at a NASA-sponsored Earth Day event at Union Station, Monday April 22, 2013 in Washington.
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Visitors explore one of NASA's exhibits at the Earth Day event on Monday, April 22, 2019, at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
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Prejanopterus curvirostra, Paleontological Center, Enciso, La Rioja, Spain, Europe.
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Original photo and caption dated June 22, 1988: "A dwarf wheat variety known as Yecoro Rojo flourishes in KSC's Biomass Production Chamber. Researchers are gathering information on the crop's ability to produce food, water and oxygen, and then remove carbon dioxide. The confined quarters associated with space travel require researchers to focus on smaller plants that yield proportionately large amounts of biomass. This wheat crop takes about 85 days to grow before harvest.&quot
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Islands of Evolution Exhibit, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate park, San Francisco, California, USA
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Macau science center.
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England, London, Kensington, science museum, Science museum, 'Wellcome museum', museum of the History of Medicine,
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Scientists presented the first images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO during a special "first light" press conference, Wednesday, April 21 2010, at held at the Newseum in Washington DC. Here, scientists are showing an animation from Walt Feimer, lead animator for the Heliophysics team.
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A display case dedicated to astronaut Roger Chaffee is shown inside the new tribute to the crew of Apollo 1 who perished in a fire at the launch pad on Jan. 27, 1967, during training for the mission. Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Chaffee were lost during the fire. The tribute at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center opened Jan. 27, 2017, 50 years after the crew of three was lost. It features numerous items recalling the lives of the three astronauts. It also includes the three-part hatch to the spacecraft itself, the first time any part of the Apollo 1 spacecraft has been displayed publicly. A version of the hatch after it was redesigned is also showcased as an example of improvements NASA made throughout the agency and to the Apollo spacecraft that would later carry astronauts to the moon.
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Canada, Quebec Province, Montreal, McGill University, Redpath Museum, dinosaur skeletons exposed in the center of the Dawson
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA astronaut candidates Victor Glover, from left, Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir tour the Apollo Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a daylong set of briefings and tours of different facilities at NASA's primary launch center. The astronaut class of 2013 was selected by NASA after an extensive year-and-a-half search. The new group will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system.
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Madrid, 01/22/2018. Presentation of the book by astronaut Scott Kelly.Photo: Matias Nieto ARCHDC.
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England, London, The Wellcome Collection, Educational Sculpture of Transparent Woman
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers check the position of the fairing for Deep Space 1 as it reaches the top of the Mobile Service Tower where it will be attached to the Boeing Delta 7326 rocket that will launch on Oct. 15, 1998. The first flight in NASA's New Millennium Program, Deep Space 1 is designed to validate 12 new technologies for scientific space missions of the next century. Onboard experiments include an ion propulsion engine and software that tracks celestial bodies so the spacecraft can make its own navigation decisions without the intervention of ground controllers. Deep Space 1 will complete most of its mission objectives within the first two months, but will also do a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid, 1992 KD, in July 1999
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Reconstruction of the study used by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857 - 1935), Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. His works inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. Tsiolkovsky spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, southwest of Moscow.
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NASA Ames Exploration Center exhibits Updated 2008
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Switzerland, Geneva, Miniature of ATLAS Detector in CERN. Miniature of the ATLAS Detector. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the biggest particle physics laboratory in the world.
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A badge board and badges from launch support staff at Launch Complex 34 is observed inside the Apollo 1 tribute at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center as it opened Jan. 27, 2017. Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Chaffee perished in a fire at the launch pad on Jan. 27, 1967, during training for the mission. The tribute highlights the lives and careers of the astronauts. The tribute features numerous items recalling the lives of the three astronauts. The tribute also includes the three-part hatch to the spacecraft itself, the first time any part of the Apollo 1 spacecraft has been displayed publicly. A version of the hatch after it was redesigned is also showcased as an example of improvements NASA made throughout the agency and to the Apollo spacecraft that would later carry astronauts to the moon.
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Krechet-94 spacesuit - the Soviet semi-rigid spacesuit with integrated life-support system. Designed under the direction of Guy Severin (1926-2008).
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Engineers evaluate early space suit designs in an Orion mockup at Lockheed Martins Exploration Development Lab (EDL) in Houston on July 1, 2011. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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Europe, England, United Kingdom, Manchester - Museum of Science and Industry
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Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), specimen, exhibition, exhibition room, German Oceanographic Museum, Dominican Monastery, Hanseatic city, Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
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Endoscope display at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
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SK-1 Flexible spacesuit with open type ventilation system designed for cosmonauts on-board "Vostok"
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A real asteroid is on display at the new Great Balls of Fire exhibit at NASAs Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The grand opening of the new attraction featured remarks by former NASA astronaut Tom Jones, and Therrin Protze, chief operating officer at Delaware North Parks and Resorts at the visitor complex.Great Balls of Fire shares the story of the origins of our solar system, asteroids and comets and their possible impacts and risks. The 1,500-square-foot exhibit, located in the East Gallery of the IMAX theatre at the visitor complex, features several interactive displays, real meteorites and replica asteroid models. The exhibit is a production of The Space Science Institute's National Center for Interactive Learning. It is a traveling exhibition that also receives funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation.
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Tour of NASA Glenn's Ares 1-X Manufacturing Facility by NASA's Constellation Program Manager
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Model of a weather radar with radome (protective cover) and weather map of Germany in the weather park Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe
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Madrid, 10/27/2021. Interview with Roberto Martínez Orio, head of the Mineral Resources area of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain and photos of strategic minerals and rare earths. Photo: Isabel Permuy. ARCHDC.
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NASA's Earth Dome is seen at Union Station, Monday, April 22, 2013 in Washington. The Earth Dome housed two of NASA's Science Gallery exhibits as part of a NASA-sponsored Earth Day event at Union Station.
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Hawaii, Maui, Maui Ocean Center, Mother and baby viewing moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
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Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin Museum of Natural History. Paleontological Museum in Berlin Ancient skeletons of dinosaurs. Berlin's Natural History Museum (Museum für Naturkunde) is home to a vast array of zoological, paleontological and mineralogical specimens. The popular Berlin museum also boasts that it houses the largest mounted dinosaur in the world. It is so large in fact, that it was impossible for me to get a full photo of it! The main entrance to the museum has a number of steps, but
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Yuri's Night at Ames a celebration of the first human in space
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Entrance to exhibition. Moving to Mars at The Design Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: N/A, 2019.
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A picture of the Map of the Northern Sky, created to honor the work of Jan Hevelius, Polish astronomer. Designed by Jan Szczypka, Andrzej Dyakowski, Jacek Zdybel, and Anna Waligorska, Agnieszka Budenko, and Anna Kloc, in 2008
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UK, England, London, Natural History Museum
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Clare Johnston, 10, and Eden Landis, 3, stare in wonder at the moon rock on display at the INFINITY at NASA Stennis Space Center visitor center and museum. The children toured INFINITY exhibits during ribbon-cutting activities for the facility April 11, 2012.