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Exhibit Hall

Engage, excite, inspire!

Our exhibit hall has dozens of interactive hands-on exhibits to keep every visitor captivated and enthralled. A Tot Spot, live lizards, special events, classroom space, and science demonstrations make the Science Factory Children's Museum & Exploration Dome a place where "imagination gets in gear!"

Current Exhibits

NOISE!
September 16, 2012 — May 2013

Get ready for some earsplitting fun as the traveling exhibition NOISE! arrives in the Exhibit Hall this fall. Featuring interactive stations on sound, music, and hearing, this display is sure to raise decibels! Each activity takes a playful look at the physics of sound waves as well as how music and sound affect our mood.

Highlights include:

Now 'Ear This , a station featuring an over-sized model of the human ear where visitors can explore the structure and functions of our sound-detecting organ

the Sceam Chamber, complete with a sound-proof cubicle where children can scream at the top of their lungs! Outside the booth, a meter indicates the decibel level of the scream and a video monitor shows those inside getting loud.

Good Vibrations , a station allowing visitors to manipulate frequencies and amplitudes to their heart's delight! Watch the vibrations make thousands of Styrofoam beads dance through an acrylic tube.

the Wrench Ball, with various sized wrenches attached. To make sound, strike the wrenches and listen as they resonate attractive tones similar to those of a xylophone.

Spooky Sounds, an activity using silent video footage and a theremin (an electronic musical instrument that the player never touches!) inspires visitors to create eerie soundtracks. The shape of the sound waves from your songs are visible on an oscilloscope.

Other concepts you can expect to discover through Noise! include tonal memory, the Doppler Effect, wave mechanics and pitch. Come check out where all the racket is coming from at the Science Factory!

Noise! exhibits are the creations of Science Works Hands-On Museum in Ashland, OR. The Science Factory thanks local sponsors Eugene Hearing & Speech Center, ESCO Foundation, Chambers Family Foundation and Checkrite Electionics for supporting this exhibition.

Upcoming Exhibits

Check back periodicially for upcoming exhibitions!

Ongoing Exhibits

Recyclotron
Prevent the balls from ending up in the "landfill" in this recycled exhibit from OMSI.
This exhibit made possible by a donation from BRING Recycling.

The Tot Spot
Children 5 and under will have a ball in this exhibit area designated just for them. Toddlers can engage in a variety of hands-on fun in an exploratory space that is big-kid free!

Generously sponsored by SELCO Community Credit Union

TOTAL TOT SPOT TRANSFORMATION

Visit our ocean-themed tot spot! On March 5, 2010 the updated Tot Spot became “Discovery Cove,” an immersive ocean and shoreline play zone. Visiting toddlers can climb into a boat play structure, touch a starfish in a make-believe tide pool touch tank, or act out stories with ocean animal puppet characters. Tots may also enjoy getting active in the ball pit “shallows” – or, they can watch ocean animals in action displayed on the new flat screen TV. The Tot Spot ocean environment is finished with commissioned illustrative collages designed by artist Alice Feagan to stimulate the imaginations of all age groups.

While some of the pieces in the new Tot Spot came from an exhibit collection acquired from Alaska’s Imaginarium, the new and improved Tot Spot was made possible by a generous gift from the Emerging Generation trustees of the Woodard Family Foundation. We would like to thank the Woodard Family Foundation and Alaska’s Imaginarium for helping us produce this exciting new ocean adventure for tots and families at the Science Factory.