Exhibits

 
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MATHROx

February 16 - September 2, 2024

Divide and conquer a range of life-size games, puzzles and building challenges designed to multiply your math skills. Infinite variables await as you solve brainteasers and explore hands-on activities. The common denominator is fun, so make sure you’re part of the equation!

About MathRox

Designed to inspire and spark the imagination, the MathRox exhibit provides rich and engaging experiences that:

  • encourage children to acquire a deeper understanding of math concepts;

  • make the practice of math skills surprisingly memorable and enjoyable; and

  • help children identify success with math as personally relevant and rewarding.

The exhibit includes brainteasers that are solved by working with tangrams and pattern magnets, a giant version of the “Tower of Hanoi” pegs-and-rings challenge, a large cube puzzle, a keystone arch challenge, and much more!

 
 
 

Permanent Exhibits

 
 
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5 Senses

Featuring a larger-than-life eye, nose, tongue, ear, and hand, the 5 Senses exhibit is full of interactive displays to explore your senses. 

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Ascend Federal Credit Union Train Depot

All Aboard! Future train engineers can dress up as railroad engineers, buy a ticket, and explore the Depot.

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Farmer's Market

Grab your basket, load up the conveyor with food, and roll your fresh food picks down to our cash registers.

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Firetruck

Firefighters, get ready to take a ride on our ever-popular fire engine. Put on your hats, pull on your boots, and climb aboard our Firetruck.

 
 
 
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The Great Outdoors

Get up close and personal with turtles native to Tennessee, captain a Jon boat, or just sit around the campfire in The Great Outdoors.

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Nature Play

Step into Nature Play filled with wonder, exploration, learning, discovery, and fun!

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Super Slide

What better way to learn about gravity than to slide down our 2 ½ story super slide!

 
 
 
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The Studio

Packed with paint, clay, chalk, paper, cardboard, and everything in between, The Studio has all you need to bring out your inner artist!

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Tiny Town & TotSpace

Explore how people work, live, and play together in our pint-sized Tiny Town! Features a Publix, MMC Pediatrics, Music Store, Post Office, and workshop.

TotSpace fosters your crawler or toddler’s brain development through interactives that will grab their attention and keep them busy!

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WaterWorks

NEW exhibit! Make a splash with squirt guns, floating lily pads, mini boats, fishing pond, hydroelectric dam, adjustable aqueducts, vortex ball-drops and launchers, and much more! More info»

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Wheels

The Wheels gallery is full of opportunities for problem-solving, make-believe, and motion. Change, a tire, drive the truck, or perfect your paper rocket design.

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