Creative Discovery Museum is a children's hands-on museum focusing on Art and Science. Create fantastic art to take home, splash in RiverPlay, see amazing science shows, and much much more! There is a broad range of art and science activities to appeal to kids of all ages. Discounts are available for reserved groups of 10 or more.
To find out the current exhibit and hours, please visit our website at www.cdmfun.org!
Exhibitions:
Fun is Disgusting at Creative Discovery Museum
Summer 2010 Featured Exhibit
Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body
May 29 – September 6
(March 26, 2010, Chattanooga, TN) - -It’s slimy, it’s noisy, it’s smelly, it’s bumpy, and it’s GROSS this summer at Creative Discovery Museum! Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body will be the featured exhibit from May 29 – Sept. 6, 2010. With colorful, interactive displays and games, kids are sure to love learning about the body and how it functions. Based on the best-selling book, Grossology by science teacher Sylvia Branzei, this exhibit has been presented in major museums, science centers and theme parks.
Kids have plenty of questions about the human body that aren’t always appropriate to discuss around the dinner table. Grossology gives kids a fun environment to explore the answers to many of the slimy, oozy, crusty, stinky questions they love to ask about the human body.
Stepping through a giant mouth and tongue, visitors are introduced to the world of Grossology with a spectrum of bright exhibit areas to greet them. Plus, lively backdrops add even more science with interesting factoids displayed throughout the exhibit.
- Nigel Nose-It-All
Kids find out what causes runny noses, sneezes and allergies by pressing buttons that activate Nigel, an oversized animatronic character. Kids will be thrilled to dodge Nigel’s snot ball as it drops out of his faucet nose! Plus, visitors can get an up-close look into microscopes featuring slides of things that cause runny noses.
- Know Your Blemish Climbing Wall
The exhibit creatively presents a climbing wall with the texture of human skin. Kids will traverse the wall by hanging on to warts, hairs, and wounds that serve as hand and foot holds. Pimples, blisters, pores, bruises, and scabs are other features in this part of the exhibit.
- Burp Man
This exhibit breaks burping down to a science by encouraging visitors to help make a larger- than-life cartoon character release a giant burp. This is accomplished by pumping soda pop from a three-foot can to make him drink and increase his stomach pressure.
- Patients Please!
Remember the game Operation? Well, here it is on a grand scale. Kids learn different body parts by attempting to remove them from the game table without touching the sides. An educationally fun challenge for sure.
- Look Inside
This x-ray machine allows visitors to learn how food is digested as it passes through the gastrointestinal system.
- Urine: The Game
Kids act as a kidney in this computer game in which they learn how kidneys remove waste. To illustrate the process, visitors use a track ball to grab waste elements and remove them from the blood stream.
- Vomit Center
In this active demonstration, kids will learn the four processes that alert the human body that it needs to vomit. If they guess the correct “process” order, they are rewarded by a cartoon character that “barfs”.
- Y U Stink
Discover all the smelly parts of the body. In this game, visitors will need to match the body odor with the area of the body that emits that odor. Kids may guess from the choices of arm pits, lower intestines, mouth and feet.
- Toot Toot
Kids learn the physics of gas and how air, vibration and pressure create different sounds. Visitors will create a variety of sounds that replicate the physics of gas by using rubber tubing and air.
- Let’s Play GROSSOLOGY
This fun multiple choice trivia game tests guests Grossology IQ to find out what lessons were learned by visiting the exhibit.
Grossology Exhibiting produced by Advanced Animations LLC., in collaboration with Science World British Columbia. GROSSOLOGY is a registered trademark of Penguin Group (USA).
Sponsored locally by: Little Debbie
Events:
4th Friday
Family Fun Night
at Science Theatre!
You know our members get free admission for the people on their membership for twelve months. But did you know about the other great benefits? Such as . . .
* Early registration for camps and workshops
* Discount on birthday parties
* Discounts on camps and workshops
* Discounts in the Museum Shop and Cafe Dino-MIte
* $2 off tickets for guests who come visit with the member
* Invitation to special members-only events such as Monster Bash
First Tennessee Free Family Night!
First Tennessee Free Family Night is the second Thursday of most months. Mark your calendar! Join us for free family fun. Make a splash in RiverPlay! Create a masterpiece in Arts Alley! Dig the dinos in Excavation Station! Bring the family and enjoy art lessons, science demos, a drawing for a free membership, guests from other organizations such as Project Ready for School and much much more!
