Microbes: Invisible Invaders, Amazing Allies
January 26, 2008 - December 31, 2008
Take a journey through an unseen world, one which sustains all life on earth while holding the deadly potential to wipe out millions. This amazingly interactive exhibit examines what microbes are, what they look like, the history of disease, emerging diseases and how research is helping find cures that save lives.

Visitors will experience the unseen world as never before in this amazingly high-tech, visually compelling exhibit that includes computer games, hands-on experiences and dazzling special effects. MICROBES: Invisible Invaders, Amazing Allies provides valuable information about one of the most pervasive and important, although misunderstood, influences in our lives -- the world of microbes.

MazeMania
January 26, 2008 - December 31, 2008
This is the perfect must see if you like solving problems or working puzzles. Maze Mania will lead you through an adventure of brain tingling puzzles. You'll explore secret mazes, games and numerous puzzles and maybe unlock thinking skills and strategies you never knew you had. Challenge your brain to another fun Children's Museum and Science Center exhibit.

Live Animal Gallery
The Children's Museum and Science Center was awarded $147,150 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to help design, fabricate and install the final three exhibit components to the museum's live animal gallery; "Elements of Life," "Diversity in the Carolinas," and "Save Our Planet." The inquiry-based exhibits in this gallery are designed to inform our visitors about the diversity of life on this planet and how their actions affect the world we share. As visitors tour the gallery, they will experience the variety of animal life found on earth - mammals, insects, fish, reptiles, birds, etc., and the array of habitats that support these life forces (i.e., wetlands, saltwater marshes, rainforests, etc.).

As visitors enter the new live animal gallery they will experience the "Elements of Life," the forces that make life on earth possible: water, air and solar energy. This exhibit area will tickle the senses as visitors see, hear and feel water flowing around them, wind blowing through their hair, and the warmth of the sun's rays on their skin. The entrance of the exhibit presents a holistic view of earth by immediately engaging the visitor's senses of sight, sound, and touch. This total sensory experience is designed to intrigue visitors of all ages.

Space Spot
The Space Spot is a great new addition to the CMSC permanent exhibit galleries. Space Spot is a sophisticated, hands-on interactive modular exhibit with numerous stations featuring information about astronomy and the space sciences. Space Spot was produced by Pacific Science Center for the Rocky Mount Children's Museum and Science Center and is suitable for all ages.

Spot Spot Interactives Include:

A Sunful of Jupiters
How do the sizes of the Earth, Sun, and Jupiter compare? See how many scale-sized "Jupiters" will fit inside a "sun" globe. Then see how many pea-sized "Earths" fit in a single "Jupiter" globe.

Star Colors
Why is the sun yellow, while other stars are blue or red or white? Stars' colors are a result of their temperatures. Compare the colors of three light bulbs--can you tell which is hottest? Then use a knob to match the bulbs' colors to a specific temperature.

3D Constellation
Constellations are giant pictures created by drawing lines between the night sky's stars. But because stars are not an equal distance away from the Earth, constellations don't look like they do from any other vantage point. Take a trip "around" the Big Dipper (Ursa Major), and see for yourself!

For more information about Space Spot or any other exhibit or program featured by the CMSC, call (252) 972-1167.

Inside Africa
January 31, 2009 - January 11, 2010
INSIDE AFRICA: is a national traveling exhibition that explores the many facets of AFRICA , its people, its lands, its rich cultural history, its stories and provides an important bridge to contemporary American life.

Well Interactive (Caravan)

At this hands-on display, two teenagers discover getting water from a well is hard work. The interactive pulley simulates the power needed to hoist a 13-gallon bucket of water up 98 feet--approximately one third the length of a football field.

The exhibit, produced by Evergreen Exhibitions in collaboration with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, has toured large cities across the United States and is now set to appear at the Rocky Mount Children's Museum & Science Center.

INSIDE AFRICA takes museum-goers of all cultural backgrounds and ages into the African experience, allowing them to discover firsthand the vitality, richness and significance of African peoples and communities in the context of a journey to selected sites on the African continent.

For example, visitors can look through binoculars to see a group of Mountain Gorillas, play traditional African instruments like the kora and calabash, see how a Tuareg family lives on the Sahara, or walk through the darkened interior of the slave ship, Diaspora -- spotlighting four enslaved Africans as they tell their individual stories. Each story begins in a different African language, with its translation complete in both English and Spanish.

INSIDE AFRICA is a once in a lifetime experience that everyone simply must see! Please make your reseverations today.