OCSM : Exhibits

Exhibits

A wide range of exhibits both indoors and out appeals to children of all ages.

Indoor Exhibits

CASTLE WORKALOT

Step back in time to a medieval world of castles, knights, queens, kings, and simple machines in the newest exhibit at OCSM. You'll have hands-on fun playing, exploring, and creating with simple machines and building structures in a real castle. Castle Workalot is where inhabitants only work a little, as simple machines cleverly bear the burden of the load.

Miniature Castle: Re-create yourself (as a castle character), then take rule of the scaled castle complete with drawbridge, dragon's lair, and moat. As the royal engineer, move water through the land with pulleys, gears, levers, and wheels.

Carpenter's Workshop: A declaration has been made for engineers of the royal court to build a strong and sturdy bridge to span the royal steps and to build flying buttresses.

Amazing Levers: Amaze yourself with what can happen when levers, balls, and gravity meet. Can you change the path of the ball to avoid the dungeon?

Pulley Pull: Try lifting different weights of flour bags and see how pulleys can make lifting much, much easier.

Blacksmith Shop: Even the smallest of carpenters can build with tools and participate in different trades and jobs important to life in a castle.

Royal Dining and Kitchen: Explore and work with simple machines in everyday castle life. Cook on the hearth and accomplish everyday tasks with pulleys, levers, and gears.

Waterworks

Measure sand, learn about ground water pollution and how rivers flow, or just sit back and read.

Giant Lever has returned to the museum floor.

Walk out on the 14' foot lever arm marked with different body weights. When you reach your weight, the lever arm will be level and you will have balanced the 300 pounds (!) of lead in the end of the lever. The less you weigh, the the further you must walk.

S.S. Ackermann Tugboat

An interactive river simulation takes visitors on a Mississippi River Trip. The tugboat allows young visitors opportunities to explore a tugboat.

Outdoor Exhibits

The outdoor exhibits are currently closed for the winter and will open when spring conditions will allow.

Critter Corner & Biology Section

We have a growing family of critters at the museum. Here is the family photo album.

Here's Wendy the Ornate Box Turtle! She's really cute.

Galatea the Rose Haired Tarantula is peeking out of her burrow.

Three Austrialian Bearded Dragons lounge in their lizard house.

Irene the Madagascan Hissing Cockroach hangs out on some cork.

We invite you to gain a better undertstanding of history by exploring medieval inventions and experience how these affected peoples' lives. This new exhibit provides open-ended activities that encourage, both individuals and groups, in many oportunities for play and problem-solving.

The Orpheum hopes to see you and your family at the ribbon cutting ceremony in March 2008.

Outdoor Exhibits


Outdoor Exhibits: The outdoor exhibits are currently closed for the winter and will open when spring conditions will allow.
Dino-Dig: Don safety goggles and use digging tools to unearth and identify fossils while replicas of a full-size Deinonychus and a young Tyrannosaurs Rex look on. Our above-ground simulated 15' x 30' paleontological dig was built by Taylor Studios.

Whisper Dishes

Try out these giant sound devices. Send a message silently across the courtyard to a friend.

Timeline Sidewalk: Stroll back in time to the theoretical beginnings of life in our universe. Tiles along the walkway depict mass extinctions and pictorial representations of the Earth's continental drifts.
Exhibit Proposals: We welcome exhibit ideas as well as exhibit designers and builders. We need woodworkers, metal workers, and electricians for on-going projects. If you have an interest in helping build or design an exhibit, please contact our Exhibits Committee.

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