Exhibits
Dinosaur Attack 
Dinosaurs will invade the South Florida Science Museum and offer lots of hands on fun! Come face-to-face with these historical creatures in this very intense, engaging exhibit. Guests can actually touch real 70 million year old dinosaur bones, dig for fossils in the Museum's dig pit, and talk with local dinosaur hunters, Robert de Palma and Rudy Pascucci to see & learn how paleontologists discover dinosaurs with field techniques and tools that are still in use today.
Join the expedition through this exhibit to uncover historical facts from this time period that actually existed on our planet!
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Permanent Exhibits
Brain Teasers
Exercise your mind with puzzling challenges for all ages!
Egypt Gallery
Discover the lives of Ancient Egyptians through funerary artifacts from the late Ptolemaic to
the Roman Period. Our gallery features an authentic Egyptian child mummy on loan from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in addition to authentic artifacts including a mummified falcon, canopic jar, Ushabti figures, and more.
WS4FSM Ham Radio Center
Welcome to WS4FSM, the museum's exciting new Ham Radio Station, where you can broadcast to others in Argentina, Amsterdam, St. Kitts, or one of two million amateur radio operators around the world! Ham radio is a hobby and a service in which participants, called "hams" use various types of radio communications equipment to communicate for public services and recreation. The West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Club will assist visitors in writing their name in Morse Code and in making contacts with other "hams" worldwide!
Out of this World
See rare space artifacts in our collection. Touch a 232 pound meteorite or spend a few minutes watching Apollo 14 Highlights while you view an authentic moon rock brought back on an Apollo mission. This collection also features a Mars rock found in Nigeria in 1962.
Interactive Outdoor Science Trail
Our newly renovated interactive nature trail includes hands-on exhibits: bubbleology, fossil
dig, whisper dishes, and more classic physics demos!
States of Matter
Explore the basic principles of science with hands-on displays representing the states of matter, including solid, liquid, gas and plasma displays. Continue through the gallery for basic principles of electricity revealed through conversion machines and a Jacob’s Ladder. Perfect for all beginning science students and science enthusiasts of all ages!
The “Tiger Shark” Submarine
The “Tiger Shark” Submarine is part of the world's maritime history, and a part of Palm Beach County's historical heritage. The “Tiger Shark” Submarine, built between 1963-1965, was purchased by Perry Submarine Builders from Silverstar, a company in West Germany, in hopes of selling it in the U.S. The "Tiger Shark" was donated to the South Florida Science Museum in 1973 by Perry Submarine Builders and is now restored and on display.
Suzie, The Ice Age Mastodon
See the only adult female mastodon on display in Florida! “Suzie” was excavated near Okeechobee Boulevard in 1969 and together with other artifacts, gives visitors a chance to see Florida’s earliest inhabitants.
Twister Exhibit
Experience a tornado, the most intense of all atmospheric phenomena. This hands-on exhibit allows you to discover how a tornado is formed and learn about its immense size.
Bugs Exhibit The South Florida Science Museum is proud to announce the opening of BUGZ! The exhibit represents an outsized backyard garden that our visitors will enter with a “bugs eye” view. Large blades of grass, flowers, butterflies and insects comprise the landscape painted on the walls and our visitors’ perspective will be at ground level looking up. We have talking microscopes with insect slides and large magnifying glasses for children to use in examining the Museum’s spectacular collection of foreign and domestic moths and butterflies. The collection is colorfully mounted along one side of the exhibit space on specially-designed waist high rails.
