Science Museum of Minnesota

Live science, real actors, pure magic. Science Live, the oldest professional museum theater company in the world, is making STEM learning concepts accessible and engaging through their daily performances at the museum. Recently, the

Alexandra Zappa is a project leader in the museum’s Exhibit Services Department, leading teams that develop, design, and build full-scale exhibits for cultural institutions across the country and around the world. Below is an overview of Cultural Crossroads, one of her most recent exhibit projects created with the Mayborn Museum at Baylor University.

The Science Museum of Minnesota maintains and stewards over 2 million objects in its collections, spanning millions of years and from all over the world. Some of these objects are made with poisonous plants that can pose a hazard to staff, volunteers, and researchers if they were to accidentally come into contact with them. Using ethnobotany, the study of the relationships be...

Museum to host Youth Science Day on July 16, bringing together over 1,700 students from across Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn. — This summer, the Science Museum of Minnesota celebrates 10 years of its pioneering STEM Freedom School, a six-week educational tradition geared toward maintaining literacy during the su...