COSI Columbus Permanent Exhibit Offerings
At COSI, you’ll be dazzled, amazed, and delighted as your family explores one incredible wonder after another. COSI features more than 300 interactive exhibits throughout our discovery-based and themed exhibition areas – Ocean, Space Gadgets, Life, WOSU@COSI, little kidspace®, Progress, and our outdoor Big Science Park.
The exhibition areas provide experiences for all age levels to creatively combine science facts and learning through play. Beyond the exhibits, you’ll find COSI’s hair-raising Electrostatic Generator Show, the only High-Wire Unicycle in the country, a seven-story Extreme Screen theater, a Science2GO! Retail store, and the Atomicafé restaurant. COSI also hosts world-class traveling exhibitions from other museums throughout the year.
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Space - Explore the Great Beyond, Right Here in Columbus
Combines the age-old questions about the universe and our place in it, exploration of the past, and the technology of today and the future into an interactive and thought-provoking experience. Highlights include a glimpse into life on the International Space Station, armchair astronauts where you can land a space shuttle, and the all-time favorite “black hole” you pass through to enter the Space. |
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Ocean - The World Under Water
Ocean allows you to investigate the mystery of water and its physical properties under the watchful eyes of the regal Poseidon as well as the opportunity to explore the hidden and sometimes forgotten world under the seas. Highlights include a light, sound and water show and interactive fountains, a wave tank, a real submarine you can climb into as well as other opportunities to learn about the wet world. |
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Big Science Park - Oversized Education Made Fun
This laboratory in the sun is proof that science is anything but boring with larger than life activities designed to let your inner scientist stomp around and shout out loud. Highlights include: A car you can lift with a giant lever, a 2.5 ton granite sphere that floats on water that you can spin, and the Centripetal Generotor where you can feel centripetal force firsthand as you spin around and the floor drops out. |
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Gadgets - A Tribute to Functional, Funky, and Fascinating Devices
Become an engineer. Gadgets contain a variety of interactive exhibits that help you understand how things work. Highlights include pulley chairs, a laser beam table, ball launcher, and Gadget’s Café where you can take apart old machines and computers and reassemble them into Gadgets art.
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Progress - Travel Through Time to Learn About Our Future from Our Past
Travel through time and interact with the people of a small Midwestern “town” and the technology of their time, 1898. Around the corner, find yourself a generation later in 1962 and see the changes progress makes. Highlights include: a talking bird that speaks when you send it Morse code, a replica of a 1960’s diner, and an early TV station where you can try your hand at announcing the nightly news. |
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Life - Exploring the Body, Mind, and Spirit of Humans
Everyone is curious about their bodies at some point in their lives. Life tells the story of you set in three thought-provoking chapters - Body, Mind and Spirit. Highlights include: the story of how we are born, the Rat Basketball Show, and the funny body noises keyboard. |
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little kidspace® - Full size Discovery for Pint-Sized People
little kidspace® is exclusively for children in kindergarten and younger with their accompanying adult(s) in a safe, fun and colorful place that includes a tree playhouse area, a build-a-house area, water fun, puppet show, a doctor’s office/ambulance area, and more. This special area also includes a nursing room, vending machines with nutritious snacks, and an information center for parents. Older children can hang out in a special room just for them while their sibs play. |
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WOSU@COSI - Lights! Camera! Action!
Come along for the adventure and experience the science behind broadcasting by visiting WOSU@COSI. A brand new experience at COSI that opened in 2006, visitors can now tour a working TV and radio studio and participate in exciting hands-on digital media activities, exhibits, and media literacy workshops.
U•TV
Be a director! Call the shots in U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. Create a multi-layered video of yourself and your friends in this “mini-studio.” Modify your image using digital effects and explore the use of chroma and luminance keying to add foreground and background elements to your live video. |
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Kelli Gaza Nowinsky
Public Relations Manager
333 West Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
614.629.3114
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