Museum of Science and Industry

Yesterday we went to Chicago to ... see above!  To find out more about the Museum of Science and Industry, click here. 

My favourite things were 'The Toy Maker' and the 'You' exhibit.

The toy maker was so fun. It was about how toys were made. There was a robot that really drew! That was also an excuse to play video games. You can play games where you are the employee and you make decisions for the company. 

The drawing robot

The 'You' exhibit was all about the human body. There was a thing where you put your hand on a pad and it shocks you. There was a giant film of a beating heart and lots of models of bodies.



Running on a giant hamster wheel

I also liked the baby chick hatchery, which was part of an exhibit about genetics.  The chicks were cute.

My favourite parts were the coalmine and the submarine.  The submarine was a real U-boat from World War 2! I thought it was pretty big, but mum said it would have been really cramped in there. They had some really good footage of the U-boat's capture (by a US ship).  You had to stand in line for ages and ages to get in to the coal mining exhibit, but it was very good. It showed you the machines from the past and present. (Wyoming is the best state for coal, by the way!)  First we went to a coal seam, then on a coal train to an area with modern methane sensing technology.  It was ironic because he showed us the 'Davy lamp' invented by Humphrey Davy, who was from Penzance in Cornwall, where my mum comes from.

I also liked the exhibit where you learnt about extreme weather like tornados and the space exhibit where we saw the real equipment which the Apollo 11 astronauts used to practise for the moon landing. 

Me and a tornado...

Ellen making a mini-tornado

  



Us on the moon... Oh, OK, not really...!