The Transportation Museum     Andrew Mancini, Director

2016 Transportation Museum: Sneak Peek

 

 

Scroll down to learn about a few of this year's museum exhibits. Be prepared to get surprised when you arrive at the museum, because we won't list everything! This year's Transportation Museum is on Sunday, September 25. For more information on getting to the museum, click here.

 

 

Space: 66 Years and Counting

Have fun at the Transportation Museum's highlight exhibit, Space: 66 Years and Counting

 

• Learn about the first American rocket sent into space, in 1950

• What was the Space Race, and who won?

• Find out about the Apollo missions

• Learn about the International Space Station

• Watch clips of our favorite space movies

• What is NASA working on right now? What is the future of NASA?

• Get the facts on the steps required to become an astronaut

 

 

Float Your Boat

Learn the science behind what makes a boat float, and then design your own boat out

of LEGO pieces!

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• Design your own boat out of LEGO pieces

• See how many cargo containers you can stack on your boat without it sinking!

• Learn all about buoyancy and displacement, and how they relate to floating

• Why does a rock sink in water, but not a toy ship?

 

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Transit in Action

View some of our favorite transportation scenes from movies

 

• View car chase scenes from Bullitt and The Seven-Ups

• Watch Denzel Washington trying to stop an out-of-control train in Unstoppable

• Follow a truck playing road games with a car in the California desert in Duel

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Crayons to Chapstick

Explore some of the museum's most interesting transit-related objects, from crayons to chapstick

 

• View interesting objects transit agencies from across the country have sent me

• See transit-related crayons and coloring books, chip-clips, and more

• Take an unusual item home, such as a Capital Metro (Austin) guitar pick

 

There will be other exhibits, too—you will just have to wait

and see what they're all about!