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Current Exhibits
 CSI: Crime Scene Insects
Learn the secrets of crime solving bugs. The Miami Science Museum offers visitors a rare opportunity to learn more about the mysterious world of crime scene investigation with its new exhibit, CSI: Crime Scene Insects. The exhibit dives into forensic entomology, the use of insects such as flies, maggots and beetles to reveal critical details of a crime scene, a fascinating practice that plays a vital role in solving a variety of crimes. CSI: Crime Scene Insects opens June 6th and runs through January 2010.
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 Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure
Join Charlie as he travels back in time to the age of the dinosaurs to discover the kiwis’ ancestors and evidence for how evolution works. Charlie and Kiwi’s Evolutionary Adventure is an original, focused experience that invites visitors to:
- see evidence of evolutionary connections between dinosaurs and birds
- enjoy the story of Charlie, whose curiosity leads to his understanding of how evolution works
- engage in activities about variation, inheritance, selection, time and adaptation, key evolutionary concepts
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 Heart Smart
Heart disease is a serious public health concern. Heart Smart gives you the tools you can use to evaluate your personal risk factors and take control of your own health, while simultaneously allowing museum visitors, large and small, to actively participate in a research study. Heart Smart invites you to:
- Assess your heart health by taking some personal measurements such as, blood pressure, height, weight, waist size, and health habits.
- Unwind in our relaxation station and feel your heart rate slow down, your muscles relax, and your mood improve.
- Pump up your heart rate by challenging your friends to a hula-hoop contest.
Heart Smart opens October 2009 and runs through Summer 2010.
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 The Reclamation Project/Native Flags
A collaborative eco-art intervention by Miami artist, Xavier Cortada
The Reclamation Project explores our ability to coexist with the natural world. It reminds us of what our community looked like before all the concrete was poured. For a few months, mangrove seedlings will "reclaim" the island where they thrived a few decades ago. Afterwards, the seedlings will be planted on Biscayne Bay. This new mangrove colony will eventually rebuild ecosystems above and below the water line.
 Immersion Theatre
In "Vital Space" you will be called upon to explore inside the body of an infected astronaut. Using nano-robots, you will use the touch screens and compete in a series of virus fighting games to save your team member. In the highly-interactive exhibit, you will be immersed in a representational reconstruction of our human biology traveling through the major organs to the cellular structure and beyond into DNA.
 Newton's Notions
Everything moves, but why? How? Isaac Newton figured it out and so can you in this exhibit that invites you to push, pull, lift, stop, go, drop and bounce your way to discovering more about how the world works. It's a fun, hands-on way to learn about the universal laws of motion.
 40 Tons of Coral in New York City
Dr. Roy Waldo Miner documented the coral reefs of the Bahamas in the 1920s and 1930s. These unique hand-colored photographic images from the collection of the Miami Science Museum document the ingenuity and technology required to collect and transport 40 tons of coral for a two-story diorama at the American Museum of Natural History. Open April 2005 - Ongoing
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