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Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
's largest hands-on science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
. Located in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
's "Museum Row" in the West Main District
West Main District (Louisville)
The West Main District is one of the five districts of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The district, or a portion of it, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as West Main Street Historic District, due to its containment of some of the oldest structures in the city...
of downtown
Downtown Louisville
Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. Its boundaries are the Ohio River to the north, Hancock Street to the east, York and Jacob Streets to the south, and 9th Street to the west...
, the museum operates as a non-profit organization. It was founded in 1871 as a natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
collection, and now more than half a million people visit the museum annually. More students in Kentucky take field trip
Field trip
A field trip or excursion, known as school trip in the UK and school tour in Ireland, is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment...
s to the Louisville Science Center than to any other destination.
The building itself is located at 727 West Main Street, and takes up 150000 sq ft (13,935.5 m²). This includes a four-story IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
theater, built in 1988, in which three million people have seen at least one of the 45 different films shown there. The distinctive cast-iron facade limestone building was originally built in 1878 as a dry goods warehouse. The city purchased the building in 1975 and the museum moved into the premises in 1977, subsequently winning several design awards for its preservation of an older building.
The center will begin construction later this year to create a $1 million Science Education Wing in the building's first floor. The new wing, encompassing more than 5300 square feet (492.4 m²), will include four science-workshop labs equipped for "hands-on" student and parent activities. Programs for students and teachers will correspond to the Science Center's core exhibits focusing on physical, natural and life sciences. The five-story Alexander Building totals nearly 37000 square feet (3,437.4 m²). On October 3, 2009, The Louisville Science center now has one of the most famous ships in the world's artifacts, the legendary RMS Titanic came to Louisville. The Louisville Science Center's Titanic Exhibit will hold the same amount of tickets that numbered to the same amount of passengers on the Titanic. The tickets will hold who you are who was onboard Titanic and what their class is, and those tickets tell you if you survived the Titanic.
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38.257638°N 85.762687°W
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
's largest hands-on science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
. Located in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
's "Museum Row" in the West Main District
West Main District (Louisville)
The West Main District is one of the five districts of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The district, or a portion of it, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as West Main Street Historic District, due to its containment of some of the oldest structures in the city...
of downtown
Downtown Louisville
Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. Its boundaries are the Ohio River to the north, Hancock Street to the east, York and Jacob Streets to the south, and 9th Street to the west...
, the museum operates as a non-profit organization. It was founded in 1871 as a natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
collection, and now more than half a million people visit the museum annually. More students in Kentucky take field trip
Field trip
A field trip or excursion, known as school trip in the UK and school tour in Ireland, is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment...
s to the Louisville Science Center than to any other destination.
The building itself is located at 727 West Main Street, and takes up 150000 sq ft (13,935.5 m²). This includes a four-story IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
theater, built in 1988, in which three million people have seen at least one of the 45 different films shown there. The distinctive cast-iron facade limestone building was originally built in 1878 as a dry goods warehouse. The city purchased the building in 1975 and the museum moved into the premises in 1977, subsequently winning several design awards for its preservation of an older building.
The center will begin construction later this year to create a $1 million Science Education Wing in the building's first floor. The new wing, encompassing more than 5300 square feet (492.4 m²), will include four science-workshop labs equipped for "hands-on" student and parent activities. Programs for students and teachers will correspond to the Science Center's core exhibits focusing on physical, natural and life sciences. The five-story Alexander Building totals nearly 37000 square feet (3,437.4 m²). On October 3, 2009, The Louisville Science center now has one of the most famous ships in the world's artifacts, the legendary RMS Titanic came to Louisville. The Louisville Science Center's Titanic Exhibit will hold the same amount of tickets that numbered to the same amount of passengers on the Titanic. The tickets will hold who you are who was onboard Titanic and what their class is, and those tickets tell you if you survived the Titanic.
External links
38.257638°N 85.762687°W
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
's largest hands-on science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
. Located in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
's "Museum Row" in the West Main District
West Main District (Louisville)
The West Main District is one of the five districts of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The district, or a portion of it, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as West Main Street Historic District, due to its containment of some of the oldest structures in the city...
of downtown
Downtown Louisville
Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. Its boundaries are the Ohio River to the north, Hancock Street to the east, York and Jacob Streets to the south, and 9th Street to the west...
, the museum operates as a non-profit organization. It was founded in 1871 as a natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
collection, and now more than half a million people visit the museum annually. More students in Kentucky take field trip
Field trip
A field trip or excursion, known as school trip in the UK and school tour in Ireland, is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment...
s to the Louisville Science Center than to any other destination.
The building itself is located at 727 West Main Street, and takes up 150000 sq ft (13,935.5 m²). This includes a four-story IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
theater, built in 1988, in which three million people have seen at least one of the 45 different films shown there. The distinctive cast-iron facade limestone building was originally built in 1878 as a dry goods warehouse. The city purchased the building in 1975 and the museum moved into the premises in 1977, subsequently winning several design awards for its preservation of an older building.
The center will begin construction later this year to create a $1 million Science Education Wing in the building's first floor. The new wing, encompassing more than 5300 square feet (492.4 m²), will include four science-workshop labs equipped for "hands-on" student and parent activities. Programs for students and teachers will correspond to the Science Center's core exhibits focusing on physical, natural and life sciences. The five-story Alexander Building totals nearly 37000 square feet (3,437.4 m²). On October 3, 2009, The Louisville Science center now has one of the most famous ships in the world's artifacts, the legendary RMS Titanic came to Louisville. The Louisville Science Center's Titanic Exhibit will hold the same amount of tickets that numbered to the same amount of passengers on the Titanic. The tickets will hold who you are who was onboard Titanic and what their class is, and those tickets tell you if you survived the Titanic.
External links
38.257638°N 85.762687°W
