Current Exhibits
At MKI, it's not just learning about how things are, it's about learning how things work. We don't show you an image with lots of text to demonstrate our exhibits. You actively participate inside the exhibits! Whether it's learning about aerodynamics through hitting golf balls or throwing baseballs, driving an experimental spaceship around the solar system, playing with steam pressure to power a factory, creating new adhesives, or driving a train up a mountain pass, your creativity is helping to run the exhibit.
The McKight Center currently has 5 new exhibits. Come and enjoy all 5. It may take you more than a day to see them all, but that just means you get to come back again! Just click the links below for more details.
Water is Everywhere With so much of the planet covered in water, we take it's presence for granted. It falls from the sky as rain, floats down as snow, makes the summers hot and humid, and cools us off as icy cold drinks. But why does this incredible substance do so much?...
The Science of Sticky Spiders crawl up walls. Flies sit on walls. Geckos climb up walls. What makes these creatures able to scale shear surfaces without falling off? We've come a long way since Velcro...
Around the Solar System Ever wonder how those new NASA engines will propel a vehicle out in space? It's not like opening a steam valve like on the Trains of the Wild West exhibit...
Aeronautics Through Sports Sure we can show you all the formula data you could ever want to read about how a golf ball stays aloft in the air. But does that mean anything to you?...
Trains of the Wild West If you lived in Boston and had to get to San Fransisco, a very long ocean voyage was in your future. But, with the advent of the steam locomotive, you could now make that journey in a fraction of the time. Imagine seeing the entire country coast-to-coast for the first time!...