The IMAX dome dominates this view of the Pacific Science Center

Arches and fountains

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Organization

Pacific Science Center is an independent, non-profit science museum based in Seattle, Washington. It sits on 7.1 acres of land located on the south side of the Seattle Center. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ...

A Science Center van

A satellite campus in Bellevue, Washington, the Mercer Slough Environmental Center, teaches children and adults about environmental stewardship, wetland ecology and nature awareness. Like many museums, the Pacific Science Center creates, builds and rents many traveling exhibits. The Pacific Science Center also has a fleet of vans that provide science education to schools all across the state. A division of staff workers show teachers in the state how to teach science. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1296x976, 757 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1296x976, 757 KB) I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Location of Bellevue within King County, Washington, and King County within Washington. ... A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ...

History

Its original buildings were the United States Science Pavilion, part of the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. After the fair ended the Pacific Science Center opened. The land and buildings were leased for $1 a year until 2004 when the title deed was signed over and the Pacific Science Center Foundation officially took ownership. The Space Needle, built for the Century 21 Exposition. ...

The Pacific Science Center is located within walking distance of the Space Needle, and is next to the Seattle Center. It is housed in what was the United States Science Pavilion for the Century 21 Exposition in 1962. This building was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who also was the architect of the World Trade Center in New York. The walls of each building, composed of many pre-cast concrete slabs, form an arch motif used by Yamasaki in a number of buildings. Space Needle from Downtown Seattle. ... Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. ... The Space Needle, built for the Century 21 Exposition. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 – February 6, 1986) was an American architect best known for his design of the World Trade Center. ... WTC redirects here. ...

1960s

In the 1960s, many exhibits were carried over from the original World's Fair exhibition, though only a few of these original exhibits remain, such as the Lens and Mirror machine and a suspended moon. Many current parents and engineers fondly remember their parents taking them there.^[1] One of the most notable exhibits at the time was a ramp where the buildings were built at a tilt. This exhibit was reproduced in the late 1990s. The domed Spacerium, now used for laser shows, was designed for a wide-angle movie journey through space. Before IMAX, a previous movie theater there showed films like NASA's Apollo 8 (to the soundtrack of Yellow Submarine) and the 21st Century with Walter Cronkite. Future governor Dixy Lee Ray would head the Science Center for many years. Worlds Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid-19th century. ... Copper Bromide laser in operation. ... IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia. ... Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to orbit around the Moon. ... Dixy Lee Ray Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914- January 2, 1994) was the seventeenth governor of Washington State, U.S.A. and the first woman to hold that position (for one term, from 1977 until 1981). ...

1970s

In the mid 1970s, the lower-level math area was dominated by the IBM Mathematica exhibit where demonstrators in orange jackets ("OJ"s) made soap bubbles and showed audiences how the stylish new Chevrolet Chevette was paving the way for the quick adoption of the Metric system. Upstairs, a giant normal curve Pachinko machine would ring an alarm before emptying out its balls. An aerospace building contained a full-sized lunar module mockup from which suited astronauts would climb out. The Life building contained an Pacific Northwest Indian long house and a working geologic model of Puget Sound. With the physical sciences, the physics witch on Halloween would ask "Would you like to boil blood in a paper cup?" or Groucho Marx would dump liquid nitrogen on the ponds after a demo. The Eames theater was originally created for a special multi-screen IBM movie for the World Fair. It was converted into an IMAX screen. Charles Eames (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker who, together with his wife Ray, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. ... A soap bubble A soap bubble is a very thin film of soap water that forms a sphere with an iridescent surface. ... The Chevrolet Chevette was Chevrolets version of GMs worldwide T platform of the 1970s, which was also sold as the Vauxhall Chevette, Opel Kadett, Isuzu Gemini and the Holden Gemini, among others. ... The International System of Units (symbol: SI) (for the French phrase Syst me International dUnit s) is the most widely used system of units. ... The normal distribution, also called Gaussian distribution (named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician, although Gauss was not the first to work with it), is an extremely important probability distribution in many fields. ... Pachinko parlor Pachinko players Entrance to large pachinko parlor in Shinsaibashi, Osaka, Japan. ... Description Role: Lunar landing Crew: 2; CDR, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 20. ... For other uses, see Astronaut (disambiguation). ... A longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. ... Puget Sound Puget Sound (pronounced IPA ) is a sound connected to the Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. ... This article is part of the Witchcraft series. ... This article is about the holiday. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wikibooks using the Transwiki process. ... Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Nitrogen, N, 7 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15 (VA), 2 , p Density 1. ... Charles Eames (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker who, together with his wife Ray, is responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ... IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia. ...

IMAX & Past Exhibits

Today the museum is composed of eight buildings, including two IMAX theaters (one of only a few places in the world with more than one IMAX theater), one of the world's largest Laser Dome theaters, a tropical butterfly house, a planetarium, and hundreds of hands-on science exhibits. In addition to the many permanent exhibits the Pacific Science Center has offered a constant rotation of traveling exhibits, including notable exhibits such as "China: 7,000 Years of Discovery", "Titanic: the Artifacts Exhibit", and "Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls". IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia. ... Families Superfamily Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae Superfamily Papilionoidea: Papilionidae Pieridae Nymphalidae Lycaenidae Riodinidae A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera, it belongs to either the Hesperioidea (the skippers) or Papilionoidea (all other butterflies) Superfamilies. ... // A planetarium is a theater built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. ... For other uses, see Titanic. ... The current version of the article or section is written like an essay. ...

Current Exhibits

From January 27, 2007-May 6, 2007 Pacific Science Center will host “GROSSOLOGY: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body.” Grossology is an exhibit based on the best-selling book GROSSOLOGY, now in its fifth printing with more than 300,000 copies sold. This 6,000 square foot exhibit features more than 20 interactive displays and helps kids answer the slimy, oozy, crusty, and stinky questions they absolutely love to ask about the human body.

Colossal Fossils: Dinosaurs Around the World From May 26, 2007 through January 6, 2008 all of Pacific Science Center will be transformed back to the days of the dinosaurs! In addition to improvements to permanent exhibits in building 1 (always a huge draw for young visitors), Pacific Science Center will be bringing in Chinasaurs: The Great Dinosaurs of China, featuring amazing fossil discoveries that are revolutionizing the understanding about the origin of flight and feathers; and Hatching the Past, an exhibit about dinosaur eggs, nests, and even embryos, showcasing new evidence to unlock the mysteries of dinosaur reproductive behavior.

References

1. ^ 'Recalling the time of their lives", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 19, 2002

External links

• Pacific Science Center
• Google home video: Danger Science water explosion finale
• Calendar of Events