February vacation week at Discovery Museum

Massachusetts School Vacation Week

Open 9:00am - 4:30pm Every Day

February 15 - 22

Celebrate National Engineers Week

We're celebrating National Engineers Week with some Everyday Engineering! Construct and create with repurposed and recycled materials.

Engineer a Bird Feeder

Saturday, February 15

Sunday, February 16

10:00am - 2:00pm

Design and build your own birdfeeder to bring home and feed your feathered friends in your own backyard!

Float and Fly

Monday, February 17 & Tuesday, February 18

10:00am - 2:00pm

Craft some simple contraptions - paper helicopters and hoop gliders - that harness the power of air to float and glide.

Indoor Fort Building

Wednesday, February 19

Thursday, February 20

10:00am - 2:00pm

What can you do with clothespins, sheets, and cardboard boxes? Just about anything! Jump in and help build an ever-changing, room-sized blanket fort.

Tinfoil Ferries

Friday, February 21 & Saturday, February 22

10:00am - 2:00pm

Investigate floating by building tinfoil boats and loading them with pennies until they sink. How many pennies can your boat hold?

National Engineers Week is sponsored by:

Free Parking Shuttle!

Monday, February 17 - Friday, February 21

For your convenience we will have have a free shuttle bus running between the museum and an overflow parking lot at 133 Prospect St, Acton.

New Exhibit Open!

Toys: The Inside Story

January 18 - May 10

Did you ever want to open an Etch-a-Sketch® to see how it works? Wonder what makes Elmo® dance? Want to see what triggers the buzzer in Operation®? Explore the inside world of toys and the pulleys, cams, gears, circuits, and linkages that make them work.

177 Main Street (Route 27)

Acton, Massachusetts 01720

Phone: 978-264-4200

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