Sensory Guide

• Can be noisy, can hear people downstairs

• Can buy tickets in advance, or from a touch screen kiosk in the lobby

• Strong popcorn smells from IMAX theater

• Can be busy

• Some movie sound effects can be loud

• Popcorn smell upon entering

• Can be busy

• Outdoor seating available if weather permits

• Cooking food smells

• Can be loud if space is busy

• Fluorescent overhead lighting

• The Tech Studio has large pieces to build a device to do a task

• Can be loud if space is busy
• Create and program robots using blocks
• Seizure warning due to lights on some blocks

• Can be loud if space is busy
• Can hear air and plastic balls moving through tubes
• Activating the “Brainstorm” ball drop is loud and can be surprising

• Can hear the heating and cooling overhead noise
• Floor reflects overhead lights

• Can hear roller coaster noises from exhibit nearby
• Create block animals, help the software recognize it, then bring it to life in the display on the wall

• Can hear roller coaster noises from exhibit nearby
• Use hand gestures to create, release and move sea creatures on a video display on a wall

• Roller coaster sounds can be loud
• Dark space with projections on the wall
• Design a roller coaster, then get in an open-air simulator to ride it virtually

• Use a stylus pen on a touch screen to create 3D paintings

• Bright light on the wall
• Move hand close to wall or knobs to create movement and sound changes

• Using a touchscreen, make different things occur to the city located on the table
• Other participants can be around the table interacting with different cities at the same time

• Move magnets on a fridge, or inside move fake foods that will prompt facts about food storage

• Move a puck on a map to hear voices of community members.

• Very dark area, can be difficult to see
• While this area is quiet you can hear the noise from the Jet Pack Chair nearby

• Noise cancelling headphones available if needed
• Transfer to a chair, use a joystick to move the chair and to hit targets

• Comfortable couches and benches
• Can be busy with people walking through to exhibits

• Comfortable couches, quieter area
• Interactive story bags and books the on wall

• Comfortable couches, fluorescent lights
• Louder and brighter area
• Books and hands-on free play materials

• Quiet, dark, benches in semi-circle inside
• Darker semi-enclosed space, voices echo

• Plastinated real human bodies and body parts on display. Children under 12 must be supervised

• Can be crowded and noisy on busy days
• Dark space with full-scale projection on walls
• Calm music plays continuously throughout the exhibit
• Move your body to interact with the projections