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New name for Schenectady Museum
The Schenectady Museum is now called miSci.
miSci = Museum of Innovation and Science
It's pronounced "my-sigh."
The museum has been changing things up this year. In February it ousted its executive director. And it's been focused on bringing in new interactive exhibits, including a series of visiting exhibits from the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The first of those exhibits will open in October.
Earlier on AOA:
+ Now on YouTube: Steinmetz, Felix the Cat, and other figures from GE's history in Schenectady
+ Now on YouTube: Steinmetz, Felix the Cat, and other figures from GE's history in Schenectady
Here's your chance to touch a moon rock
Coming to the Schenectady Museum in July: NASA's Driven to Explore Exhibit. From the blurbage:
Immerse yourself in the story of NASA: learn why we explore; discover the challenges of human space exploration; and see how NASA provides critical technological advances to improve life on Earth. And touch a 4 billion-year-old moon rock brought back aboard Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon in 1972. The moon rock is one of only eight lunar samples in the world made available for the public to touch.
The mobile exhibit will be at the Schenectady Museum July 12 (noon-9 pm) and 13 (noon-5 pm). The last tickets will be sold an hour before closing. Tickets are $7.50 adults / $5 children / $6.25 seniors / plus $2 for a show at the Suits-Bueche Planetarium.
And, of course, the museum will also be selling astronaut ice cream.
photo: NASA
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