Science Lab

abacus

CREHST Museum’s Science Lab presents the wonders of cutting-edge science right at visitors’ fingertips. From intelligent touch screen computers to interactive labs throughout the exhibit, there’s something for everyone: launch an object with a catapult, power a motor with your bare hands, solve math problems using a life-sized Abacus, and more! Visit often as these exhibits change frequently.This exhibit also includes a mammoth tusk, a mammoth vertebra, and part of the oldest fossilized deer in America. A short Ice Age Flood video is a repeating feature on a flat screen television.

Some of the area’s premier local science communities have added interesting elements to the exhibit. This includes the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory’s (LIGO’s) interactive model of a laser interferometer.

Added spring 2011, sound recording and playback from the early 1900s to present day.  This display features physicist and life-long inventor Jim Russell whose vision in 1965 has become today’s CD.