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Wandering the Milky Way - A Tour of the Solar System
June 2, 2022 - January 1, 2023 Do you need to get away from it all? Far, far away? Outer space is the place! From Jupiter’s swirling red spot to the icy geysers on Neptune’s moon Triton, our corner of the Milky Way is full of wonders just waiting to be explored. Meet the inventors who’ve used robots, rockets, and rovers to take the people of Earth on a tour of the planets. Discover how a new generation of innovators is sending us out of the solar system into the space between the stars. |
Featured Exhibit
Voyages - A Trip Through Space and Time
June 2, 2022 - January 1, 2023 In 1977, two Voyager space probes launched from Florida on a five-year mission to explore the solar system. Today, Voyagers 1 and 2 are still broadcasting back to Earth as they travel farther into space than any manmade object. NASA has commissioned a team of physicists to design a new interstellar mission to send a probe on a space journey that could last a century. Discover how a spacecraft from the 1970s is still teaching us about the galaxy and learn how scientists are designing a mission that spans generations. |
Join Tracey the pencil dog and her crew—Rooth, Drop, Inky, Uno, and Kari—on a fantastically immersive journey to create stories using science and imagination.
Dive into the world of storytelling and channel your creativity to develop your own animated production using storyboarding, sketching, stop-motion movie making, and more! The quirky cast of characters and hands-on interactives break down the process step-by-step to reveal how animated features are created. Animationland empowers visitors of all ages to experiment, learn, and tell their own stories through animation. This exhibition was created by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and is made possible through generous funding from Visit Gainesville, Alachua County. |
Mothers of Invention
Located along the Cade Museum's second floor rotunda Audio Tour Available Everyone says that necessity is the mother of invention, but at the Cade, we see inventions born from all of these Mothers of Invention: Necessity, Curiosity, Imagination, Iteration, and Serendipity. Around Rotunda, see examples of inventors who exemplify these concepts. Click the button below to read more about the exhibit and listen to the audio tour. |