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Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) Review
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Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI)
Museums / Galleries, Tampa
Fodor's Review:
The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) is a fun and stimulating scientific playground, though at times several exhibits aren't working properly. When it's hitting on all cylinders, you learn about Florida weather, anatomy, flight, and space by seeing and by doing. At the Gulf Coast Hurricane Exhibit, experience what a hurricane and its 74-mph winds feel like. The BioWorks Butterfly Garden is a 6,400-square-foot engineered ecosystem project that demonstrates how wetlands can clean water plus serve as a home for butterflies. The 100-seat Saunders Planetarium -- Tampa's only planetarium -- has afternoon and evening shows, one of them a trek through the universe. For adventurous spirits, there's a high-wire bicycle ride 30 feet above the floor. There's also an impressive IMAX theater, where films are projected on a hemispherical 82-foot dome. Kids in Charge, a 40,000-square-foot science center with interactive exhibits aimed at the 12-and-under set, opened in 2005, complete with a flight simulator ($3.50 additional charge). Disasterville, an exhibit about -- you guessed it -- natural disasters, opened in mid-2006, giving visitors a chance to walk through a simulated town hit by natural disasters.
INFO
- Address: 4801 E. Fowler Ave., 1 mi north of Busch Gardens, Northeast Tampa, Tampa, FL
- Phone: 813/987-6000; 800/995-6674
- Web site
- Cost: $19.95
- Open: Daily 9-5
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