OCSM : Exhibits

Exhibits

Our fun and interactive exhibits include a two story castle, tugboat, rock grotto, 10-foot water flume, whisper dishes, dinasaur dig area, sand exploration and a tornado exhibit.

We have a wonderful critter corner with a corn snake, turtles, tarantula, hissing cockroaches and bearded dragons.

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.

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.

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.

Outdoor Exhibits

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.
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