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Summer Hours
9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. 7 days. (Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend)

Winter Hours
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closed on Monday. (After Labor Day weekend through weekend before Memorial Day)

Closed – New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day


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Visitors Guide
The Mid America Science Museum has over 100 hands-on exhibits available for you to see, touch, and explore. (Enjoy a brief tour of our exhibit halls using the links below.)

Upper Level
Structures
Mirrors
Shadow Trapper


Middle Level
Underground Arkansas Cave
Trek through "Underground Arkansas", a gigantic indoor cave filled with awesome twists, turns, tunnels, and slides. Maneuver swinging bridges, climb rope ladders, and experience a realistic thermal waterfall.

Energy Island
This changing array of experiments demonstrates the various effects of energy, its characteristics and behavior. The numerous controls around the perimeter allow you to view and manipulate various experiments.

Gravity Tower


Lower Level

Other Exhibits and Demonstrations

Tesla Demonstration

In this amazing presentation, experience the power of “caged lightning” as you watch 1.5 million volts of electricity spark from the world largest publicly displayed conical Tesla Coil! This incredible show gives visitors an exciting - and safe - introduction to high-energy electricity.

Van der Graaff Generator

Laser Show

Sir Roland Emmett’s wondrous, whimsical creations

Three of these creations were used in the classic movie, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." These rare machines, the "Featherstone-Kite," the "Little Dragon Carpet Sweep", the "Hush-A-Bye Hot Air Rocking Chair", and the "Visi-Vision", create an atmosphere of fun, playfulness, and inventiveness that challenge the senses and imagination.

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