Museum of Arts and Sciences

Super Science Saturday
2017-07-15 11:00 - 16:00, 2017-07-08 11:00 - 16:00, 2017-07-01 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer hands-on STE+aM activities and speakers that explore the areas of science including space, the Sun, the ocean, and sharks. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.

Cosmic Thursday
2017-07-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-07-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-29 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer activities that explore space, the Sun, and eclipses. These activities will coordinate with the Museum’s Countdown to Eclipse summer theme in anticipation of the August 21 solar eclipse. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.

Scien-Terrific Tuesday
2017-07-11 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-27 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer hands-on STE+aM activities every Tuesday this summer!The activities will be related to sharks and the ocean to coordinate with the Museum’s summer interactive exhibit, Megalodon: the Largest Shark That Ever Lived. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.

Polar Bear Den
2017-07-11 10:30 - 11:15
Art and story time for your creative little munchkin.

$5 per child(ages 2-5) plus one free adult per child attending.

The child must be participating in Polar Bear Den. Only one adult per child.

Mini-Zoo Crew In Training
2017-07-06 10:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
Feed a critter, clean a habitat, observe animals, learn about their lives and discover the jobs necessary to run a mini-zoo. Students will shadow Mini-Zoo staff in daily activities. Activities may include handling small animals. Attendees will receive a certificate of completion.
Reservations are required. Call 478-477-3232.
Required: Wear close-toed shoes and working clothes, bring sack lunch, provide health and permission form.
Age: Completed 4th – 6th grades

Independence Day - Museum Closed
2017-07-04 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum will be closed in observance of Independence Day.

Super Science Saturday - Georgia Sea Grant
2017-06-24 11:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer hands-on STE+aM activities and speakers that explore the areas of science including space, the Sun, the ocean, and sharks. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.
Georgia Sea Grant – The Georgia Sea Grant College Program is part of a national network of 33 Sea Grant programs located in every coastal and Great Lakes state, Puerto Rico, Lake Champlain, and Guam. These programs serve as a core of a dynamic university-based network of over 300 institutions involving more than 3,000 scientists, engineers, educators, students and outreach experts.
The network engages with academia and a wide variety of partners to address issues related to the coasts, oceans and marine resources. Sea Grant is a program of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the U.S.
In 1971, under the leadership of Edward Chin, UGA received its “Coherent Area Program” status to conduct Sea Grant activities in the area of salt marsh ecology. Following the development of marine advisory service and non-traditional educational programs by Marine Extension, UGA earned the title of “Sea Grant Institution” in 1974. Due to demonstrated excellence in research, education and extension services, the Department of Commerce, under section 207 of the National Sea Grant Program Act, designated UGA as the nation’s 15th “Sea Grant College Program” in 1980.

Georgia Sea Grant received $1.3 million in federal funding in 2014.
Federal funds are administered at UGA and are matched 50% by state money.
In 2015, Georgia Sea Grant funded nine competitively selected research projects.

[taken verbatim from UGA Marine Extension Service website]

UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant welcome Mona Behl, Associate Director of Georgia Sea Grant
May 11, 2015
Mona Behl is the new associate director of Georgia Sea Grant. In this position, she is charged with managing various aspects of grant administration, strategic planning, and development and oversight of inter-, cross-, and trans-disciplinary efforts in research. One of her goals is to strengthen the connection between research, extension, and education. Mona led Texas Sea Grant’s Research Program, and also worked as an extension specialist. She is a physical oceanographer by training, with experience in various aspects of science – research, administration, policy, education, outreach and communication.
[taken verbatim from UGA Marine Extension Service website]
Join us for presentations by Mona Behl in the Science on a Sphere® Gallery

12:30 – Earth Changes

2:30 – Georgia Coast and Georgia Sea Grant Program

Each will use SOS®

Sky Over Macon
2017-06-23 20:00 - 22:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
Explore space, the constellations, and planets visible from Central Georgia in Sky Over Macon in the Mark Smith Planetarium. The show starts with a general tour of the celestial sights visible each season; then a live presentation updates the current position of the planets and unusual events in the sky. This program provides the latest information about current and upcoming celestial events for those who want to learn how to find constellations or planets in the sky or how to increase their knowledge of astronomy.
The show begins at 8:15 pm (doors open at 8:00 pm) and regular Museum admissions apply. The Planetarium seats 120, and seating is on a first-come, first served basis.
Join us in the Observatory after the Planetarium’s Sky Over Macon show to see the real night sky through our telescopes! Observing, which is free for all, begins after the Planetarium show and lasts until 10:00 pm if the sky is clear.

Meet Zuri the Lemur!
2017-06-17 11:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
Join us for a day of all things Lemur and meet Zuri, the Museum’s newest Mini-Zoo employee. She will be making debuts at the 1 pm and 3 pm Live Animal Shows. We will also have lemur crafts and fun games. Don’t forget to stop by the Megalodon exhibit and get consumed by amazing shark facts! Standard Museum admission applies.

Mini-Zoo Crew In Training
2017-06-15 10:00 - 16:00, 2017-06-01 10:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
Feed a critter, clean a habitat, observe animals, learn about their lives and discover the jobs necessary to run a mini-zoo. Students will shadow Mini-Zoo staff in daily activities. Activities may include handling small animals. Attendees will receive a certificate of completion.
Required: Wear close-toed shoes and working clothes, bring sack lunch, provide health and permission form.
Age: Completed 4th – 6th grades

Super Science Saturday – Build Your Own Shark
2017-06-10 11:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer hands-on STE+aM activities and speakers that explore the areas of science including space, the Sun, the ocean, and sharks. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.
Create your own shark sculpture using found materials.

Cosmic Thursday: World Oceans Day - Rising Seas
2017-06-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer activities that explore space, the Sun, and eclipses. These activities will coordinate with the Museum’s Countdown to Eclipse summer theme in anticipation of the August 21 solar eclipse. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.
World Oceans Day – Rising Seas: Visitors can participate in an experiment to understand sea level rise and its consequences.

Polar Bear Den
2017-06-06 10:30 - 11:15 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States

Super Science Saturday - Fossil Mania
2017-06-03 11:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer hands-on STE+aM activities and speakers that explore the areas of science including space, the Sun, the ocean, and sharks. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.
Fossil Mania – “Excavate” small fossils, make a mold and cast of a youth megalodon tooth, complete a fossil scavenger hunt through the Museum.

Cosmic Thursday - Investigating Clouds
2017-06-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Museum of Arts and Sciences will offer activities that explore space, the Sun, and eclipses. These activities will coordinate with the Museum’s Countdown to Eclipse summer theme in anticipation of the August 21 solar eclipse. Designed for any Museum visitor during designated hours.

Investigating Clouds – Clouds are what sometimes come between us and the Sun (and forecasts say that’s possible on June 1). Visitors can practice cloud observation, make a cloud in a bottle, and see how clouds affect light. They can take home their own cloud observation sheet.

Sky Over Macon - CANCELED
2017-05-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
May’s Sky Over Macon has been canceled. The regularly scheduled Sky Over Macon will resume on June 23, 2017.

Megalodon: Largest Shark that Ever Lived Opens
2017-05-26 | Museum of Arts and Sciences, 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
Learn about the evolution, biology, and misconceptions of Megalodon, an enormous prehistoric shark that once cruised all the world’s oceans. Related to the modern great white and mako sharks, Megalodon was a dominant marine predator for 15 million years before vanishing 2 million years ago. This 3,500-square-foot exhibit highlights the research findings of the world’s leading marine paleontologists and showcases both fossil and modern shark specimens and full-scale models from several collections.

Satur-FREE-day!
2017-05-06 10:00 - 17:00
Join the Museum and our wonderful sponsors, Navicent Health, for a day of fun! Navicent will be offering a Mini-Boot Camp to help jumpstart those health goals. Best of all, Navicent has paid admission for all who attend today. So come on by and check out what our Museum and Navicent Health have to offer this community. We promise you won’t be disappointed!
