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Iowa
Ames
Archives of Women In Science & Engineering
Special Collections Dept
403 Parks Library, Iowa State U
Ames IA 50011
Phone 515 294-6648
Web Site http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html
E-mail mailto:tzanish@iastate.edu
Description personal papers of individual women, records about them, material on women's science & engineering organizations
Type of Resource Science
Primary Focus History Resource
Nature of Group or Site Oral History
Group Identity Women
Research /Reading Archives
New or Updated: 11/20/2002 |
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Science Station
427 1st Street SE
Cedar Rapids IA 52401
Phone 319 363-4629
Web Site http://www.sciencestation.org/index.html
Description 130 hands on exhibits with electricity, magnets, sound, light, optical illusions, flight, dinosaurs, human body, machines, solar system
Type of Resource Science
Primary Focus Science Museum
Kind of Activity IMAX
New or Updated: 04/25/2003 |
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Iowa
Cherokee
Sanford Museum and Planetarium
117 East Willow Street
Cherokee IA 51012
Phone 712 225-3922
Web Site http://mail.cherokee.k12.ia.us/~sanford/default.htm
Description most of the natural and physical sciences
Type of Resource Science
Primary Focus Natural History
Field of Study/Science Facility Planetarium
New or Updated: 03/31/2003 |
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Iowa
Des Moines
Science Center of Iowa
4500 Grand Avenue
Des Moines IA 50312
Phone 515 274-4138
Web Site www.sciowa.org/
Description
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum |
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Iowa
Waterloo
Science Imaginarium
322 Washington Street
Waterloo IA 50701
Phone 319 233-8708
Web Site www.cedarnet.org/grout/Imaginarium.html
Description
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum
Idaho
Boise
Idaho Museum of Mining & Geology
3455 Old Penitentiary Road
Boise ID 83712
Phone 208 368-9876
Web Site www.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/index.html
Description
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Science Museum
Field of Study/Science Facility Geology |
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Illinois
Aurora
SciTech
18 W Benton Street
Aurora IL 60506
Phone 630 859-3434
Web Site http://scitech.mus.il.us/
Description interactive science & technology, 200 hands-on exhibits
Type of Resource Science
Primary Focus Science Museum
New or Updated: 09/23/2002
Illinois
Batavia
Leon Lederman Science Education Center
Fermilab
Batavia IL
Phone 630 840-8258
Web Site www-ed.fnal.gov/ed_lsc.html
Description Physics at the site of one of the premier research facilities in the world -- displays on Accelerators, detectors, methods, and Ideas
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum
Field of Study/Science Facility Physics |
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IL
Bourbonnais
Strickler Planetarium
Olivet Nazarene U
One University Avenue
Bourbonnais
IL
60914
Phone
815 939-5308
Web Site
http://www.olivet.edu/services/planetarium/
Description
college based planetarium with public shows
Type of Resource
Science
Field of Study/Science Facility
Planetarium
New or Updated:
09/01/2003
Illinois
Carbondale
Science Center Carbondale
611 East College
Carbondale IL 62901
Phone
Web Site
Description
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum |
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IL
Champaign
William M Staerkel
Planetarium
Parkland College
2400 West Bradley
Avenue
Champaign
IL
61821
Phone
217 351-2446
Alt Phone
217 351-2568
Web Site
http://www.parkland.edu/coned/pla/index.html
E-mail
dleake@parkland.edu
Description
public shows Friday and Saturday evenings
Type of Resource
Science
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Planetarium
Owner/Operator:
Parkland College
New or Updated:
8/2/2006
Illinois
Chicago
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
1300 S Lake
Shore Drive
Chicago IL 60605
Phone 312 922-7827
Alt Phone 312 322-0300
Web Site http://www.adlerplanetarium.org
Description planetarium on Lake Michigan shoreline with extensive
additional astronomy and science exhibits
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum
Field of Study/Science Facility Planetarium |
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IL
Chicago
John G
Shedd Aquarium
1200 S Lakeshore Drive
Chicago IL
60605
Phone
312 939-2438
Web Site
www.sheddnet.org/
Description
on the lakefront, you can look out over Lake
Michigan while watching dolphin show,
Amazon
River, tropical reef, dolphins
Type of
Resource
Science
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Aquarium
New or
Updated:
5/7/2005
Illinois
Chicago
Henry Crown Space Center
5700 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago IL 60637
Phone 773 684-1414
Web Site http://www.msichicago.org/info/vtm/visit.html
Toll Free 800 GO TO MSI
Alt Web http://hga.com/experience/museum_and_exhibition/henry_crown_space_cente
Description part of the Museum of Science & Industry houses space artifacts with several spacecraft & Omnimax theater
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum
Kind of Activity Omnimax
Field of Study/Science Facility Space
New or Updated: 05/16/2003
Illinois
Chicago
Museum of Science & Industry
5700 South Lake Shore Dr
Chicago IL 60637
Phone 773 684-1414
Web Site www.msichicago.org/
Description
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum |
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Illinois
Chicago
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N Cannon Drive
Chicago IL 60614
Phone 773 755-5100
Web Site www.chias.org/
E-mail mailto:info@naturemuseum.org
Description butterfly greenhouse, city science (how a house works), environmental central, family water lab, wilderness walk,
children's gallery, outside native plants on grounds
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Natural History
Collection A-F Butterflies
Owner/Operator: Chicago Academy of Sciences
Illinois
DeKalb
Davis Hall Observatory - NIU
NIU Davis Hall, 7th Floor Room 703
Normal & Locust Roads
DeKalb IL 60115
Phone 815 753-1305
Alt Phone 815 753-1772
Web Site http://niuhep.physics.niu.edu/~observatory/
Description tours, limited public hours & viewing time, various public programs
Type of Resource
Science
Field of Study/Science Facility Observatory |
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