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Kansas
Emporia
Emporia SU Geology Museum
Cram Hall
Emporia
Phone 620 341-5330
Web Site
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Description
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus Science Museum
Field of Study/Science Facility Geology
KS
Hutchinson
Kansas
Cosmosphere and Space Center Museum
1100 North Plum
Hutchinson
KS
Web Site
http://www.cosmo.org/
Toll Free
800 397-0330
Description
large collection of Russian and American space
suits and artifacts, spacecraft, live
science
show, planetarium
Type of
Resource
Science
Primary
Focus
Science Museum
Kind of
Activity
IMAX
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Space
Collection
N-Z
Vehicles
New or
Updated:
12/4/2005
KS
Manhattan
KSU
Herbarium
Division of Biology - Ackert Hall
Manhattan
KS
66506
Phone
913 532-6619
Web Site
http://www.k-state.edu/herbarium/
Description
200,000 specimens featuring 175,000 ferns,
majority from the Great
Plains, as
old as 1840
Type of
Resource
Science
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Herbarium
Research
Library
Era
1877
New or
Updated:
9/20/2007 |
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Kansas
Pittsburg
Pittsburg SU Sperry Herbarium
Dept of Biology
Pittsburg KS 66762
Phone 620 235-4867
Alt Phone 620 235-4740
Web Site http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~slt/sperryherb.htm
E-mail mailto:slt@pittstate.edu
Description 50,000 vascular plant, 5200 bryophytes
Type of Resource
Science
Field of Study/Science Facility Herbarium
Kansas
Wichita
Lake Afton Public Observatory
Lake Afton County Park
MAIL: Wichita SU, 1845 Fairmount 67260
Wichita KS
Phone 316 978-7827
Web Site http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/
E-mail mailto:observatory@wichita.edu
Alt Web http://www.sedgwick.ks.us/lake_afton/observatory.html
Description programs for the general public on weekends throughout the year
Type of Resource
Science
Field of Study/Science Facility Observatory |
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KS
Wichita
Exploration
Place
300 N McLean Boulevard
Wichita
KS
67203
Phone
316 263-3373
Web Site
http://www.exploration.org/
Description
flight and design, human life, outdoors, weather,
fossils, Kansas in Miniature, play
areas, 3
theaters, mini golf
Type of
Resource
Science
Primary
Focus
Science Museum
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Planetarium
New or
Updated:
11/19/2005
KS
Wichita
Lake Afton
Public Observatory
Lake Afton County Park
MAIL:
Wichita SU, 1845 Fairmount 67260
Wichita
KS
67260
Phone
316 978-7827
Web Site
http://webs.wichita.edu/lapo/
E-mail
mailto:observatory@wichita.edu
Alt Web
http://www.sedgwick.ks.us/lake_afton/observatory.html
Description
programs for the general public on weekends
throughout the year
Type of
Resource
Science
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Observatory
New or
Updated:
11/19/2005
KY
Berea
Berea
College Burroughs Geological Museum
Berea College
Charles
Martin Hall Science Building
Berea KY
40404
Phone
859 985-3351
Web Site
http://www.berea.edu/geologymuseum/
E-mail
mailto:alice_hooker@berea.edu
Description
over 2200 catalogued specimens of minerals,
rocks, gemstones, fossils
& artifacts
- agate collection
Type of
Resource Science
Primary
Focus
Science Museum
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Geology
New or
Updated: 4/10/2006
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KY
Berea
Berea
College Weatherford Planetarium
Berea College
Berea KY
Phone
859 985-3351
Web Site
http://physics.berea.edu/
Alt Web
http://www.kentuckyliving.com/article.asp?articleid=1311&issueid=231
Description
Type of
Resource
Science
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Planetarium
New or
Updated: 4/8/2006
KY
Bowling Green
Brims Children's Museum
1229 Center St
Bowling Green KY 42101
Phone 270 843-9799
Web Site BROKEN http://www.premiernet.net/~brims
Alt Web http://bg.ky.net/Tourism/attractions.html
Description BRIMS Blaster mini-tornado, HO railroad, wind
tunnel, Magic Mirrors, 40 exhibits
Type of Resource Science
Primary Focus Children
Collection G-M Model Railroad
New or Updated: 5/10/2004
KY
Bowling Green
Hardin
Planetarium
Department of Physics & Astronomy
1906 College
Heights Blvd #11077
Bowling
Green
KY
42101
Phone
270 745-4044
Web Site
http://physics.wku.edu/
Description
shows 3 days a eek most weeks
Type of
Resource
Science
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Planetarium
Owner/Operator:
Western Kentucky U
New or
Updated:
4/6/2006
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Kentucky
Louisville
Gheens
Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium
U of Louisville
Louisville
KY
Phone
502 852-6664
Web Site
http://www.louisville.edu/planetarium/
Description
Type of
Resource
Science
Primary
Focus
Science Museum
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Planetarium
New or
Updated:
3/30/2007
KY
Louisville
Louisville Science
Center
727 W Main Street
Louisville
KY
40202
Phone
502 561-6100
Web
http://www.louisvillescience.org/
Description
hands-on science center, World We Create, World
Within Us, World
Around Us, KidZone
Type of Resource
Science
Primary Focus
Science Museum
Kind of Activity
IMAX
New or Updated
1/31/2006 |
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KY
Owensboro
Owensboro Area Museum of Science & History
220 Daviess Street
Owensboro
KY
42303
Phone
270 687-2732
Web Site
http://www.owensboromuseum.com/
E-mail
mailto:information@OwensboroMuseum.com
Description
one temporary, 3 permanent galleries, Speedzeum (motorsports),
Encounter hands on area
Type
of Resource
Science
Primary
Focus
Science Museum
New
or Updated:
6/25/2005
LA
Alexandria
STAR
Center
1014 3rd Street
Alexandria
LA
71301
Phone
318 443-0100
Web Site
http://gocenla.thetowntalk.com/112
E-mail
mailto:cenlapri@bellsouth.net
Description
environmentally oriented facility with hands on
activities such as paper making, making rubber
stamps from used inner tubes, observing fish hatchery, recycling, astronomy,
computers
Type
of Resource
Science
Primary
Focus
Science Museum
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Ecology
Owner/Operator:
Cenla Pride/Keep Cenla Beautiful
New or Updated:
6/19/2005 |
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LA
Baton Rouge
LSU
Herbarium
A257 Life Sciences Annex
Department
of Biological Sciences
Baton Rouge
LA
70803
Phone
Web Site
http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/
Description
founded 1869, holds 165,000 specimens,
concentrations in lichens and fungi -
academic
facility, NOT a museum, advance notice necessary
Type of
Resource
Science
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Herbarium
Research
/Reading
Library
New or
Updated:
7/24/2005
LA
Kenner
Freeport
McMoRan Science Complex
409
Williams Blvd
Kenner
LA
70062
Phone
504 468-7231
Web Site
www.rivertownkenner.com/science.html
Description
planetarium, observatory, full size NASA space
station prototype
Type of
Resource
Science
Primary
Focus
Science
Museum
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Observatory
New or
Updated:
8/23/2005
Louisiana
New Orleans
Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
#1 Canal Street
at the River
New Orleans LA 70130
Phone
Web Site http://www.acres.org/aoa_visitor.htm
Toll Free 800 774-7394
E-mail mailto:air@auduboninstitute.org
Description aquatic tunnel through tank, frogs, Seahorses, Jellyfish, sharks, sea otters
Type of Resource
Science
Kind of Activity IMAX
Field of Study/Science Facility Aquarium |
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LA
Shreveport
Sci-port
Discovery Center
820 Clyde Fant Parkway
Shreveport
LA
71101
Phone
318 424-3466
Web Site
http://www.sciport.org/
Toll Free
877 724-7678
Description
Exploration Gallery, Demonstration Theater,
Children's Discovery Gallery, Physical
Sciences
Gallery, Technology Gallery, Bodyworks Gallery
Type of
Resource
Science
Primary
Focus
Science Museum
Kind of
Activity
IMAX
New or
Updated:
11/24/2005 |
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01/12/2008 |
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