Museum of Science, Boston

Museum of Science, Boston Inspiring a lifelong love of science in everyone - in museums, classrooms and online.
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We believe in a world where science belongs to each of us for the good of all of us.

06/17/2026

New Immersive Exhibit: Life Chronicles!

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Step into prehistoric history with our new interactive experience, Life Chronicles! For 30 minutes, explore different paleo-landscapes, geological periods, and experience the evolution of our planet.

06/17/2026

You could see up to 100 meteors per hour this month! 🌠

The Bootids are active now until July 2, and will peak on June 21. This meteor shower varies, with some years producing just a few meteors in an hour, and others getting up to 100 per hour! Scientists are unable to predict which version is coming, but if all goes well, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere could get a dazzling shower!

The James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes teamed up to study Terzan 5, a stellar system 22,000 light-years away in the ...
06/17/2026

The James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes teamed up to study Terzan 5, a stellar system 22,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, and what they found rewrote the classification books. 🔭

New research uncovered strong evidence for four distinct stellar populations, with formation ages spanning from 12.5 billion to just 2.5 billion years ago. That extraordinary age range means Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as originally thought, but something far rarer: a bulge fossil fragment, a self-enriching stellar system embedded in the densely packed core of the Milky Way. Packed with roughly 2 million times the Sun's mass into just a few tens of light-years, it's one of the most massive, densely populated systems in our galaxy.

Image source: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, G. Zullo (University of Bologna), F. R. Ferraro (University of Bologna). Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)

New Exhibit: Making Waves is Now Open!Plan your visit today: https://bit.ly/4uJJ3vhDiscover the invisible force behind o...
06/16/2026

New Exhibit: Making Waves is Now Open!

Plan your visit today: https://bit.ly/4uJJ3vh

Discover the invisible force behind our everyday world in Making Waves, a brand-new hands-on exhibition where you can see, hear, and feel the science of waves in action. Included with Exhibit Halls admission.

06/16/2026

The solstice doesn’t just happen on Earth 🌎☀️🪐

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains that solstices happen across our solar system, but every planet experiences them at a different time depending on its axial tilt. While Venus and Jupiter have only slight axial tilts and mild seasonal changes, Uranus is tilted so drastically that it experiences some of the most extreme seasons and weather patterns in the solar system.



This project is part of IF/THEN, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

Join us on Saturday, June 27 for a Pride Month Celebration filled with local scientists, live performances, and family a...
06/16/2026

Join us on Saturday, June 27 for a Pride Month Celebration filled with local scientists, live performances, and family activities! Connect with neighborhood organizations and enjoy a special, one-day-only free screening of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Together, let's celebrate the scientists, stories, and communities that make us who we are. Visit our website to learn more and plan your day with us: https://bit.ly/4e9OHlf

06/15/2026

What happens when you take the air out of a can of shaving cream? 🪒

Wolf_Science explains how the atmosphere inside squeezes thousands of tiny air bubbles to stay small in their container. When the air is taken out, it causes them to expand, resulting in an excess amount of foam. Then, when the air is put back, it looks like half the shaving cream disappears!

06/14/2026

Why do millipedes live on top of their food? 🐛

Our Florida Ivory Millipedes’ habitat is made of bioactive substrate, which also doubles as their typical meal! While they also receive fruits and veggies a couple times a week, their main source of nutrition is primarily made up of the substrate, which consists of leaf, litter, rotting wood, and decaying plants. They also like to make the most of their meal, using it as a tunnel system and a place to lay their eggs.

06/13/2026

You can see cosmic rays with this science experiment!

We are constantly being bombarded by invisible cosmic rays. Alex Dainis shows us how to make them visible with this science experiment!

To see the best results, put your container in a dark area. The big negatively charged muons will leave large tracks, while electrons and positrons leave tiny curly ones!

06/12/2026

You have to see this! Microscopic view deep into an Onion!

Chloe Savard, also known as tardibabe, takes us into the inner skin of an onion, peeled down to a single cell layer, so thin that light passes straight through it. That's what makes it perfect for microscopy.

Those glowing borders are rigid cell walls, and the specks drifting inside are organelles working around the clock. The giant, clear space that fills most of each cell is the vacuole; onion cells have enormous ones. It stores water, nutrients, and waste, and it's basically what gives an onion its crunch.

That little oval structure you can spot floating inside a cell? That's the nucleus, the control room, holding all the DNA. The tiny dot within it is the nucleolus, which builds the ribosomes that make every protein in the cell. The purple glow comes from polarized light, which turns a transparent sliver of onion into something that looks like stained glass.

Life is everywhere. Even on your cutting board.

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Museum Of Science, 1 Science Park
Boston, MA
02114

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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