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Auction Ends: May 22, 2011 11:59 PM EDT

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Explore the Museum of Science and Industry

Item Number
162
Estimated Value
105 USD
Sold
50 USD to fansofnie
Number of Bids
3  -  Bid History

Item Description

Experience a scientific playground of over 450 hands-on activities in the largest science center in the southeastern United States with five passes to the MOSI Exhibit Galleries and IMAX Dome Theatre.

MOSI offers over 400,000 square feet of permanent interactive exhibits. At MOSI, visitors can:

  • Learn through play inside Kids In Charge!, the largest children's science center in the nation.
  • Brave extreme weather conditions inside Disasterville, featuring WeatherQuest—a 10,000 square foot exhibition on the science behind tornados, hurricanes, wildfires and much more!
  • Harness themselves onto a bicycle along a 98-foot-long steel cable, suspended 30 feet above ground on MOSI's "High Wire Bike," the longest in a U.S. museum!
  • Enter into an engineered ecosystem in the "Bio Works Butterfly Garden" and view multiple kinds of free-flying butterflies.
  • Learn about the human body in all its complexity—from DNA to organs in "The Amazing You", an Exhibition of the Human Body!
  • Take in an astronomy show in The Saunders Planetarium and gaze into the starry nighttime sky.
  • Experience images of unsurpassed size, clarity, and impact onto a dome shaped screen providing 10,500 square feet of visual imagery in Florida's only IMAX Dome Theatre!

MOSI is a private, nonprofit corporation that seeks to inspire the public through hands-on, minds-on experience involving science, technology and various industries.

Item Special Note

Not valid for special engagement IMAX films or exhibitions.

Winning bidder must pay for postage and shipping of the items or pick them up at the St. Petersburg Times downtown St. Petersburg Bureau, 490 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.