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A museum science educator assists visitors at the Imaginarium's marine touch tanks.
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The new Imaginarium Discovery Center, which opened in May at the Anchorage Museum, includes a Bubble Space, which features bubbles both as playthings and as tools to understand surface tension, shape and light reflection.
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The Magic Planet can also transform into other planets so visitors can examine, for example, craters on the moon, the polar ice caps of Mars or the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.
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The Magic Planet is a 24-inch spherical screen with images projected from inside. The interactive globe uses NASA and NOAA imagery so visitors can see the Earth’s weather patterns, how the planet would look if the oceans were drained and much more.
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The museum's science educators will offer frequent reptile demonstrations in the new Imaginarium Discovery Center. Reptiles include a ball python and a Chinese water dragon like the one shown here.
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A Christmas sea anemone, one of the animals in the marine touch tank at the new Imaginarium Discovery Center.
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An ochre sea star, one of the animals in the marine touch tank at the new Imaginarium Discovery Center.
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The new Imaginarium Discovery Center, which opened in May at the Anchorage Museum, includes a Bubble Space, which features bubbles both as playthings and as tools to understand surface tension, shape and light reflection.
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The Imaginarium Discovery Center’s Earth and Life Science gallery features baby alligators, moon jellies and a marine life touch tank with sea stars and anemones. Here, an Anchorage Museum science educator lets a young visitor pet a sea star.
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In the new Imaginarium Discovery Center, visitors can experiment with levers and pulleys to haul themselves up in this hoist chair. The exhibit explains how simple mechanical systems can lower the force needed to lift something.
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A young visitor is mesmerized by Calliope Borealic, an interactive art piece in the new Imagiarium Discovery Center. This ball obstacle course is by George Rhoads, a well known audio/kinetic sculpture from New York.
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The Imaginarium Discovery Center’s Earth and Life Science gallery features baby alligators, moon jellies and a marine life touch tank with sea stars and anemones. Here, a young visitor makes friends with Chomper, a common snapping turtle.
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The new Imaginarium Discovery Center, which opened in May at the Anchorage Museum, includes a Bubble Space, which features bubbles both as items of play and as tools to understand surface tension, shape and light reflection.
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The Anchorage Museum's new Imaginarium Discovery Center features several themed galleries. The exhibits in the BP Kinetics Gallery focus on all things physics.
Chuck Choi
The Anchorage Museum's new Imaginarium Discovery Center features several themed galleries. The exhibits in the BP Kinetics Gallery focus on all things physics.
