The Rochester Museum & Science Center offers three floors of hands-on exhibitions exploring science and technology, natural science, and our region's cultural heritage. In addition to ongoing favorites such as Expedition Earth, several new traveling exhibits each year make the RMSC a popular destination for families.
NEW EXHIBIT!
Electricity Theater
Opens July 2
With "singing" Tesla coils, this exhibition experience features dazzling displays of lightning set to music. 
TRAVELING EXHIBIT
The PGA Championship History Exhibit
Honor a tradition that traces more than 95 years, the PGA Championship. Whether you’re a golf afficionado or not, get the family together and check it out—it’s sure to be a hole-in-one! 
ONGOING EXHIBITS
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KEVA Planks—Come build with us!
Construct your own wooden masterpiece with KEVA Planks—identical, stackable construction blocks. Blending science with art, KEVA planks bring out the designer, architect and engineer in each of us.
ENERGIZE it
the power, the energy, the choices—in your hands
What powers our bodies, cities and planet, and is neither created nor destroyed? ENERGY. Developed and built by RMSC staff and volunteers, ENERGIZE it brings you through a multi-sensory, highly physical experience where YOU hold the power! 
Lig
ht Here | Light Now
Located in the Strasenbrurgh Planetarium
Optics exhibit! Lasers, mirrors, lenses, prisms—hands-on fun with optics! Explore the science, technology, and engineering that have made Rochester a global center for imaging and optics research.
Bend brilliant green and red lasers through an eerie mist to learn about reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
Dance and move to mix a rainbow of "Colored Shadows."
Play beautiful music on the "Laser Harp" to discover a world of optical sensors. Find out how lasers can be used to detect motion as you wave your hands along invisible strings to "play the harp."
Take a trip to "Light Island!" Experiment with light and shadow as you play with lenses, mirrors, and colored filters.
Stories of Rochester contributions are woven through the exhibit.
Flight t
o Freedom: Rochester's Underground Railroad
Explore the paths that courageous freedom seekers followed through Rochester in this dramatic, interactive exhibition. Walk in the footsteps of Austin Steward, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Reverend Thomas James as they overcome huge obstacles to build free lives. Learn how they joined Rochester activists in the fight to abolish slavery and help others seeking freedom.
Young visitors can follow their own child-level "Songs of Freedom" story as little Imani makes the dangerous journey north with her family.
The exhibition is presented with support from the City of Rochester and the Underground Railroad Heritage Trail, a program of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
Also, Explore the Underground Railroad Heritage Trail — Upstate New York
Expedition Earth
Glaciers & Giants
You & Your Earth and An Ever-Changing Planet
American Rock Salt Company Object Theater
Adventure Zone
Explore the underwater world of Lake Ontario as you dive to the lake floor in the Deep Submergence Vehicle. Examine the rock layers of the Genesee River Gorge in the climbing wall. Become a reporter in the weather studio, or operate the fill valves in an interactive model of an Erie Canal lock.
Discover Our Weather
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n the AdventureZone Gallery
HOW THINGS WORK
Discover the science behind everyday devices in this hands-on, minds-on exhibit. Through fun, first-hand investigation, find out how mechanisms such as light switches, thermostats, and traffic signals work.
K'NEX
Flex your engineering skills and creative muscle! Build trucks, towers—anything you can imagine—with this colorful construction toy. Purchase your creations to take home, or take them apart to come back and play another day.
AT THE WESTERN DOOR
The hundreds of objects displayed show the Seneca's and Haudenosaunee's creative response to new technologies and materials introduced following European contact. Clan and family continue to bind communities together and define who the Seneca and Haudenosaunee are.
ROCHESTER BUSINESS HALL OF FAME
Explore Erie Canal connections in RMSC exhibits and get your Erie Canalway Passport to Your National Parks stamp at the museum Welcome Center!
SMALL EXHIBITS
Howard W. Coles
Sponsored by the Rochester Educational Opportunity Center (REOC) and WDKX-103.9 FM.
This exhibit honors the historian, human rights activist, writer/editor, broadcast journalist and sociologist who founded the Fredrick Douglass Voice newspaper. It includes clothing, photographs, and Coles' typewriter. To learn more, click on the link below:
Howard Coles and the Coles Collection
ONLINE EXHIBITS
Rochester's 1873 Time Capsule
Rochester Business Hall of Fame
Nagasaki Tamako
RMSC Quilt Project
British Pottery Displaying Erie Canal Imagery