The Bassett Planetarium , at Amherst College in Amherst, MA is open to groups by appointment only. Admission is free.
The planetarium is unusual in that it has not gone digital. The night sky is shown using a star projector made up of a very bright light inside a pierced [continue reading]
Archive for Science and Nature Museums
The Bassett Planetarium
Dec
16
2015
Free Planetarium Shows this Autumn
Oct
13
2015
Astronomy students at Williams College will host free shows for the public on Friday evenings at 8pm!
October : 16, 23, 30
November : 6, 13, 20
December : 4
829 Main Street, Williamstown , MA. [continue reading]
October : 16, 23, 30
November : 6, 13, 20
December : 4
829 Main Street, Williamstown , MA. [continue reading]
High Tech Planetarium Takes Us to the Stars
Oct
8
2015
Milham Planetarium at Williams College is an incredible high-tech resource for Western Mass. Astronomy students in the area always seem to want to open up the planets for the rest of us. All through the Fall they will host free shows for the general public. There is something scientifically hypnotic about a planet show, and [continue reading]
Local History: Greenfield Home to First Dinosaur Museum in the Country!
May
1
2013
Greenfield’s Lost Museum: Dexter Marsh and the Dinosaur Tracks Many local people know that Dexter Marsh (1806-1853), quarrier — stonemason, janitor, handyman, and jack-of-all-trades in 19th-century Greenfield, MA — was among the first to discover dinosaur footprints, but how many know that he opened one of the first dinosaur museums in the country? In 1835, [continue reading]
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: The Macaulay Library
Jan
17
2013
The Macaulay Library is the world’s largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology founder Arthur A. Allen and Library of Natural Sounds (now Macaulay Library) founder Peter Paul Kellogg were pioneers in the field of recording bird sounds. Allen worked with a local movie company to [continue reading]
Cornell Lab of Ornithology founder Arthur A. Allen and Library of Natural Sounds (now Macaulay Library) founder Peter Paul Kellogg were pioneers in the field of recording bird sounds. Allen worked with a local movie company to [continue reading]
The Amherst College Museum of Natural History
Dec
22
2009
The Amherst College Museum of Natural History (formerly the Pratt Museum) contains three floors of exhibits and over 1700 individual specimens. There are a variety of displays on vertebrate evolution and extinction, geology of the Connecticut River Valley, and the world’s largest collection of dinosaur tracks, many from the local area.
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The Hitchcock Center
Dec
22
2009
The Hitchcock Center for the Environment , located in Amherst, MA, offers natural history programs for both children and adults, as well as a resource center. Located in the Larch Hill conservation area, the trails and butterfly garden are open to the public during daytime hours. [continue reading]
Springfield Science Museum
Nov
8
2008
Springfield Science Museum 21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103
Phone: 413-263-6800
Discover the wonders of science through the live animal Solutia Eco-Center, the cultures and animals in R.E. Phelon African Hall, Dinosaur Hall with its towering Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Seymour Planetarium, Mineral Hall, early aviation in Springfield, and [continue reading]
