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Compare the friction of three slides, watch a small avalanche form, or step inside a model of the human heart. These photos show hands-on science museums around the world and the exhibits that give each one its character.

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Exploratorium, San Francisco
Exploratorium, San Francisco: The Exploratorium opened in 1969 and later moved to Pier 15. Scott Weaver’s toothpick…
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Miraikan, Tokyo
Miraikan, Tokyo: Tokyo’s Miraikan opened in 2001. Its suspended Geo-Cosmos globe turns satellite readings and other data…
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Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Chicago’s museum opened in 1933. In Science Storms, the spinning disk…
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The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia: Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute opened its science museum in 1934. The Giant Heart…
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Deutsches Museum, Munich
Deutsches Museum, Munich: The Deutsches Museum opened its Museum Island building in 1925. In the Kids’ Kingdom gallery…
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Science Museum, London
Science Museum, London: London’s Science Museum became a separate institution in 1909. In Wonderlab, the friction slides…
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NEMO Science Museum, Amsterdam
NEMO Science Museum, Amsterdam: NEMO’s copper-clad Amsterdam building opened in 1997. In the Fenomena gallery, visitors can…
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Museu de les Ciències, Valencia
Museu de les Ciències, Valencia: Valencia’s Museu de les Ciències opened in 2000. Watch its Foucault pendulum swing across…
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Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris: The Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie opened in Paris’s Parc de la Villette…
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Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong: Opened in 1991, the Hong Kong Science Museum built its atrium around the Energy…
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Questacon, Canberra
Questacon, Canberra: Questacon opened its purpose-built Canberra center in 1988. The building pictured houses Free Fall, a…
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Science World, Vancouver
Science World, Vancouver: Science World moved into Vancouver’s Expo 86 dome in 1989. The photo shows a demonstration on…
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Science Centre Singapore
Science Centre Singapore opened in 1977. Behind the entrance shown here, the Energy Story exhibition covers energy from…
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Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg
Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg: Phaeno opened in Wolfsburg in 2005. The concrete forms under Zaha Hadid’s building make…
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Parque Explora, Medellín
Parque Explora, Medellín: Parque Explora opened in Medellín in 2007. Beneath the red buildings is Sala Abierta, an outdoor…
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Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City
Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City: Papalote opened in Chapultepec in 1993. The bubble room shown here has stations where…
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Museu Catavento, São Paulo
Museu Catavento, São Paulo: Museu Catavento opened in 2009 in São Paulo’s former Palace of Industries, pictured here. In…
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Museum of Science, Boston
Museum of Science, Boston: Boston’s Museum of Science opened at Science Park in 1951. The Theater of Electricity uses the…
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Liberty Science Center, Jersey City
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City: Liberty Science Center opened in Jersey City in 1993. Its suspended Infinity Climber…
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CosmoCaixa, Barcelona
CosmoCaixa, Barcelona: Barcelona’s science museum reopened as CosmoCaixa in 2004. The Flooded Forest in the photo recreates…
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Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw
Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw: Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre opened in 2010 on the Vistula. Inside the building…

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