Museum of Science, Boston

Exhibits & Shows

Cahners ComputerPlace — your portal into the digital world:

Bytes!

- Take a peek inside a computer

- Chat with Ada and Grace, our new virtual human guides, and go behind the scenes at "InterFaces" (follow link above to enter the virtual exhibit).

- Get advice from Tinker, a relational agent who can remember meeting you!

- Design and program animations and games

- Build electronic inventions, like musical Play-Doh

Bots!

- Train a robot dog to obey commands

- Program a robot by connecting wooden blocks

- Operate a Personal Exploration Rover from Mission Control

- Check out a military robot that served in Iraq to protect soldiers from harm

Visit Cahners ComputerPlace and chat about your digital world with our human educators.

Download our software list (below) for a descriptive list and sources for software presented in ComputerPlace.

When the Museum of Science exhibit halls are open, Cahners ComputerPlace is available:

Saturday - Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Extended hours (MA school vacation weeks and summer through Labor Day):

Saturday - Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 6:45 p.m.

Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.