Test the universal laws of science and explore the wonders of technology and illusion in The Manitoba Museum’s Science Gallery. Learn about yourself and the world around you in an entertaining hands-on atmosphere where you become the scientist, discovering scientific principles at more than 100 challenging exhibits. Each exhibit offers operating instructions (what to do) and a short explanation of the science at work (what's going on).

See your shadow on the wall after you've left the Flash Room. Test your perception in the Illusion Room. Have a conversation with a talking computer, operate a robot and enter the Matrix where angled mirrors reflect your image into infinity.

• Do you possess perfect pitch or are you tone deaf? Test yourself at the Tone Memory exhibit. It's not easy to pick out an isolated tone since the human ear responds to frequencies of sound about 15 to 20,000 cycles per second.

• Make your own cartoon at the Zoetrope. The human eye is able to retain an image for about one-tenth of a second after it has been flashed on the eye.
This persistence of vision allows you to create a cartoon by drawing a series of images.

• Leave your shadow behind on a wall! The Flash Room is made of special material that appears to soak up your shadow. In reality, your body, not the wall, absorbs the light creating a shadow image.

• The illusion of floating in space in the Matrix is created by this room of mirrors and its computer-controlled sequencing of lights to music.

• Learn how undercurrent is created at the Wave Machine and feel the effects of the pulley and lever systems.

• Build and race boats, use a variety of pumps to lift water, conduct measurements, investigate locks and dams, determine streamlined shapes and use an Archimedes screw – all at the Water World exhibit!

With nearly 100 hands-on exhibits to explore, you'll discover that the laws
of science belong to everyday experience!