COSI, officially the Center of Science and Industry, is a science museum and research center in Columbus, Ohio. COSI was opened to the public on 29 March 1964 and remained there for 35 years. In 1999, COSI was moved to a 320,000-square-foot (30,000 m2) facility designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki along a bend in the Scioto River in the Franklinton neighborhood. COSI features more than 300 interactive exhibits throughout themed exhibition areas.
COSI (Center of Science and Industry) is a Columbus science museum and research facility. COSI opened to the public on March 29, 1964, and remained open for 35 years. COSI relocated to a 320,000-square-foot (30,000-square-meter) facility designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki in the Franklinton neighborhood in 1999. COSI has over 300 interactive exhibits spread across themed exhibition areas.
Exhibit Area
Energy Explorers
Energy Explorers, which opened in 2013, allows visitors to choose an avatar character that follows the guest to the town’s Home Zone, Transportation Zone, and Product Zone, making decisions via computer kiosks to balance energy efficiency and cost.
The Space
Energy Explorers, which opened in 2013, allows visitors to select an avatar character who follows them through a town’s Home Zone, Transportation Zone, and Product Zone, making decisions through computer kiosks to balance energy efficiency and cost.
A replica space station pod to tour, a recreation of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 spacecraft from the Mercury-Atlas 6, remote-controlled vehicles, balance tests, and other hands-on experiments dealing with space flight trajectory, gravitational pull, and simulated rover landings are all part of the Space exhibit area. Space was originally housed on Level 2 in its enclosed atrium exhibit area, accessible via a “black hole” spinning funhouse hallway designed to confuse visitors. Bed Bug Exterminator Columbus
Dinosaur Gallery
In collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, COSI opened a permanent Dinosaur Gallery on November 19, 2017. In the spring of 2018, a traveling special exhibition gallery opened. They take up 22,000 square feet on the first floor.
Gadgets
Many classic science museum hands-on experiments, such as pulleys, wind tunnels, plasma globes, magnets, light bulbs, engines, and counterweights, can be found in the Gadgets exhibit area. Gadgets also have the Gadgets Café, where families can sit and choose from a menu of quick science experiments. Visitors can disassemble donated phones, computers, clocks, and other electronic devices, which are recycled using a take-apart menu.
Address: 333 W Broad St, Columbus, OH
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