• Chemists Celebrate Earth Week: Trees and Forests

    Discovery Museum 177 Main Street (Route 27), Acton, MA, United States

    Discover the science behind Trees and Forests: Into the Woods with Chemistry as we celebrate Chemists Celebrate Earth Week. Join us and our guest educators from the North Eastern Section of American Chemical Society and have fun exploring chemistry through hands-on activities related to this year’s theme, Trees and Forests!

    Free with admission
  • Chemists Celebrate Earth Week: Trees and Forests

    Discovery Museum 177 Main Street (Route 27), Acton, MA, United States

    Discover the science behind Trees and Forests: Into the Woods with Chemistry as we celebrate Chemists Celebrate Earth Week. Join us and our guest educators from the North Eastern Section of American Chemical Society and have fun exploring chemistry through hands-on activities related to this year’s theme, Trees and Forests!

    Free with admission
  • Happy Birthday Leonardo da Vinci!

    Discovery Museum 177 Main Street (Route 27), Acton, MA, United States

    Join Discovery Museum as we celebrate Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday. Born on April 15, 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor, artist, engineer, and mathematician who spent his lifetime following his curiosity and exploring a wide variety of interests. Be inspired by da Vinci’s passion for flight as you build paper helicopters at our Wind […]

    Free with admission
  • Take Aparts

    Discovery Museum 177 Main Street (Route 27), Acton, MA, United States

    Are you curious about what’s inside telephones, computers, radios and more? Grab a screwdriver and discover resistors, capacitors, and circuit boards as you uncover the inner workings of everyday electronics.

    Free with admission
  • Sign and Dance with DEAFinitely Crew!

    Discovery Museum 177 Main Street (Route 27), Acton, MA, United States

    Get ready to sign and dance! The Discovery Museum welcomes the DEAFinitely Crew for a performance that combines American Sign Language, hip hop and breakdancing. As a Boston based non-profit, DEAFinitely represents a wide diversity of Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and hard of hearing youth. Crew members between the ages of 8-18 years old come together […]

    Free with admission
  • SMART Gals (Science, Math, Art): Exploring DNA

    Discovery Museum 177 Main Street (Route 27), Acton, MA, United States

    Join us as we learn about women who have made important contributions throughout history to the fields of science, math, and art. Chemist Rosalind Franklin made great discoveries and contributions to what we know about DNA. We’ll honor Franklin’s work and learn about other women who use what she discovered in their own research by […]

    Free with admission
  • Everyday Engineering: Squishy Circuits

    Discovery Museum 177 Main Street (Route 27), Acton, MA, United States

    Squish and sculpt as you explore some simple circuitry. We’ll discover the conductive properties of a childhood favorite, as we sink our hands into playdough to make LEDs light up and buzzers buzz!

    Free with admission