Tommy Bartlett Exploratory, Science museum in Wisconsin Dells, United States.
Tommy Bartlett Exploratory is a science museum in Wisconsin Dells with over 175 hands-on exhibits inside a single indoor building. The exhibits cover physics, engineering, and space science, letting visitors try experiments themselves rather than just observe.
The museum first opened under the name Robot World before being renamed. It grew alongside Tommy Bartlett's water ski show, which ran for 69 years and closed in 2020.
The museum brings together families and school groups who learn about physics, engineering, and space exploration through hands-on activities. Visitors discover how scientific ideas work by doing experiments themselves rather than just reading about them.
The museum sits in the Parkway area of Wisconsin Dells and is easy to spot when arriving by car. A visit tends to take a few hours, and it works well for families with children of different ages.
The museum holds an original core module from the Russian space station Mir, and it is the only one on display in North America. Visitors can walk up close to this piece of Soviet space hardware and read about how it was used in orbit.
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