Highlights
The Maryland Science Center is a science museum located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The center was opened by the Maryland Academy of Sciences in 1976, with expansions in 1986 and 2004. The museum's attractions include several permanent interactive exhibits, traveling exhibits, a planetarium, a demonstration stage, an observatory, a Segway station and an IMAX theater. The "Fossil Quest" exhibit features fossils from all over the state. "Follow the Blue Crab" looks at the connection between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, and features a large mechanical blue crab. "Newton's Alley" has many activities that illustrate Sir Issac Newton's scientific principles, and "Dinosaur Mysteries" inc...
The Maryland Science Center is a science museum located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The center was opened by the Maryland Academy of Sciences in 1976, with expansions in 1986 and 2004. The museum's attractions include several permanent interactive exhibits, traveling exhibits, a planetarium, a demonstration stage, an observatory, a Segway station and an IMAX theater. The "Fossil Quest" exhibit features fossils from all over the state. "Follow the Blue Crab" looks at the connection between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, and features a large mechanical blue crab. "Newton's Alley" has many activities that illustrate Sir Issac Newton's scientific principles, and "Dinosaur Mysteries" inclues more than 12 full-sized dinosaurs and live lizard exhibits. The IMAX theater, added in 1987, is five stories tall and plays both regular and 3-D films. The center participates in community programs such as an overnight "camp-in" for scout troops and middle-school children, and a summer camp for kids.
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Three Different Da Vinci Exhibits
Cities around the country are in da Vinci mode with shows about Leonardo da Vinci's work. In New York, "Leonardo Da Vinci's Workshop: Inventor + Artist + Dreamer" opens Nov. 20 at the Discovery Times Square Exposition and runs through April 4. The show...Tags: Times Square, Vatican City, Museum Dioramas, Sculpture, Invention and Innovation
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The genius of wine
Dining@LargeSometimes events pass me by.I just heard about the Science Uncorked: The Genius of Wine series at the Maryland Science Center -- but it seems to be the second installment. This one is tied to the Science Center’s latest touring......Tags: Museum Dioramas, Italy, Dining and Drinking, Beverage Industry, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Outings tailored for autistic kids
Like most 15-year-olds, Eric Kane loves watching movies, sometimes as many as three a night.
Yet they're almost always DVDs. Seeing the latest blockbusters on the big screen in a darkened theater wasn't always easy for the autistic teenager.
"He would...Tags: Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, People, Autism
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Living with a mother's nightmare
Just a few months after her husband drowned their three children, Amy Castillo found herself standing on top of a mountain during a Christian missionary trip to China, winds whipping, rain pouring down.
She asked herself a question: "Can I live with...Tags: Suicide, Pediatrics, Dining and Drinking, Assault, Vehicles
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What's better than a carousel?
Baltimore's vintage Inner Harbor Carousel could be replaced by a pirate-themed theater, a miniature golf course, a traveling Ripley's Believe or Not exhibit or a Ferris wheel.
It also might give way to a new carousel, with figures shaped like anything...Tags: William Donald Schaefer, Government, Public Officials, Fort McHenry, Museum Dioramas
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The Weather Page
Sun Reporter // Weather BloggerOn Sunday, we listed a high temperature of 80 for Saturday in downtown Baltimore. That puzzled reader Fred Weiss. "My thermometer barely made it to 70 ... Where and what time was that 80-degree reading?" Darned if I know. Our data vendor claims it came...Tags: Museum Dioramas
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Castillo pleads guilty in killings of his 3 children
The odd and tragic case of Mark Castillo took another erratic turn Wednesday, when the 43-year-old father abruptly pleaded guilty to drowning his three young children in a city hotel bathtub, carefully timing their submersion with a stopwatch. Castillo's...Tags: Suicide, Trials, Religious Texts, Game Playing, Bible
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On tape, Castillo says he gave his 3 kids 'a good day' before drowning them
Mark Castillo and his three young kids spent the day downtown, at the Maryland Science Center, before he checked into the Marriott Inner Harbor hotel at Camden Yards about 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, 2008, according to a taped statement he gave police...Tags: Museum Dioramas, Game Playing, Hospitals and Clinics, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Lawyers
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Tape of confession played in father's drowning of 3 children
Mark Castillo and his three children spent the day downtown, at the Maryland Science Center, before he checked into the Marriott Inner Harbor hotel at Camden Yards about 5 p.m. March 29, 2008, according to a statement he gave police at Maryland Shock...Tags: Defendants, Game Playing, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Museum Dioramas, Prosecution
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Solomon Love
Solomon "Sol" Love, former research director of Edgewood Arsenal's Detection Division of the Army Chemical Center and longtime Maryland Science Center volunteer who entertained the young and old alike, died of cancer Sept. 25 at Gilchrist Hospice Care....Tags: Pikesville, Death and Dying, NATO, Colleges and Universities, Twitter, Inc.
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Da Vinci decoded
Baltimore Sun reporterPainter. Scientist. Inventor. Designer. Engineer. Visionary. Genius. Has there ever been a man with more labels attached to his name than Leonardo da Vinci? Probably not. In a world where mere mortals struggle to master just one profession, da Vinci...Tags: Photography, Vehicles, James Rouse, Trips and Vacations, Air and Space Accidents
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May, June without 90s ... Cool summer ahead?
Maryland WeatherJune ended at midnight last night without having delivered a single day in the 90s. May ended the same way. Baltimore - or BWI at least, the station of record for the city - has had just three days in......Tags: Weather Reports, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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