Science Museum of Minnesota

1. Name of the museum

Official name of the museum in English : Science Museum of Minnesota

2. Contact information

Mailing address: 120 W Kellogg Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55102, United States

Telephone number: + 651 221 9444

Fax number: + 800 221 9444

Email: info@smm.org

URL: http://www.smm.org/

3. Visitor services

Opened days/Closed days: throughout the year/Monday

Regular museum hours: Sun/Tue/Wed(09:30-17:00), Thu/Fri/Sat(09:30-21:00)

Admission fee/Ticket prices

-Omnitheater+Museum Admission: Adult($20) Child(4-12)/Senior(60+)($17), Members(Free)

-Omnitheater Only: Adult($8) Child/Senior($7), Members(Free)

-Museum Admission Only: Adult($13), Child/Senior($10)

Membership fee

-Basic Memberships: Family/Household($99) Dual($69)

-Supporting Memberships: Darwin($150-249) Carver($250-499) Hopper($500-999) Einstein($1000-2499)

-Curie Society: Curie ($2,500-$4,999), da Vinci ($5,000-$9,999), Aristotle ($10,000-$24,999), Newton ($25,000-$49,999), Galileo ($50,000 and above)

4. Establishment

Date of establishment:  1907

Organizer/Main group of the establishment:

Patron/Partner(Organization):

Goals/Mission statement: The Science Museum of Minnesota is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

The Science Museum of Minnesota, founded in 1907, is a large regional science museum located on the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul. The Science Museum's programs combine research and collection facilities, a public science education center, extensive teacher education and school outreach programs, and an Imax Convertible Dome Omnitheater to provide science education to our audience of more than a million people per year.

The Science Museum's building is 370,000 square feet, built into the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. The museum's 70,000 square feet of exhibition space includes a 10,000-square-foot temporary exhibit gallery and five permanent galleries covering the topics of paleontology, physical science and technology, the human body, peoples and cultures of the Mississippi River, and the museum's collections. The Mississippi River flows just outside the windows of the museum and past the museum's ten acres of outdoor exhibits and programming space. The Science Museum of Minnesota employs over 600 full and part time staff and is supported by more than 1,000 dedicated volunteers.

The Science Museum of Minnesota is known worldwide for its interactive exhibits, dynamic traveling exhibitions, and internationally distributed large format films. The museum was an early innovator in the use of live theater as a humanizing interpretive tool and continues to be a training ground for other museums wishing to include live programming in their exhibit halls. The museum provides innovative staff development programs for teachers throughout the region and science education outreach programs for K-12 classrooms. The Science Museum constantly explores and implements new technologies to educate our audience about science. The museum's Science Learning Division and St. Croix Watershed Research Station provide significant ongoing scientific research in the areas of anthropology, paleontology, biology, and environmental sciences.

Mission: Turn on the science: realizing the potential of policy makers, educators, and individuals to achieve full civic and economic participation in the world.

5. Exhibition

AV/Online exhibits: Mississippi River Gallery, Human Body Gallery, Cell Lab, Collections Gallery, Experiment Gallery, Dinosaurs & Fossils Gallery, Big Back Yard, Collectors' Corner, Science Buzz

Special Exhibitions: Future Earth, Math Moves!,

Moving/Traveling exhibits: Ultimate Dinosaurs, Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed, RACE: Are We So Different?, Wild Music

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