![]() ![]() Stanford Selects Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Design New Burton and Deedee McMurtry Building for the Arts High Museum of Art Names Sarah Schleuning New Curator of Decorative Arts and Design John Lennon's "Lucy in the Sky" Lyrics Up for Auction at Profiles in History Auction House Galileo Honored by Vatican and American Academy in Rome, on Anniversary Wartime German Bunker Discovered by Workers in Warsaw Laying a New Tram Lineīoston Science Museum Buys Fleet of 30 Segways and Offers One-Hour Toursīoston's ICA Opens The Record, First Museum Show to Explore Influence of Vinyl on Visual ArtĬopy of 14th-Century Hebrew Manuscript Acquired by Nelson-Atkins MuseumĪddicted to Highs and Lows Curated by Richard Aldrich on View at Bortolami GalleryĪrt Gallery of New South Wales Announces Ben Quilty's Portrait Wins Archibald Prize 2011 Sotheby's London to Sell Important Scottish Skating Scene on Duddingston Loch The Pace Gallery Presents an Exhibition of Sculptures from 1982 to 2008 by John Chamberlain "Segways are just really fun," Alosa said.Įxhibition at American Museum of Natural History Reveals How Dinosaurs Actually LivedĮthel Carrick & E Phillips Fox's Artistic Marriage Celebrated at the Queensland Art Gallery But the ultimate goal is for visitors to enjoy themselves. The tour will likely evolve as museum staff finds out what visitors like and dislike. 1 priority is always safety," O'Brien said. In fact, before the museum lets someone on a Segway, they have to take a half-hour training course. The tour even points out American history, including the point where British troops disembarked from their boats after crossing Boston Harbor before the long march to the battles of Lexington and Concord.Īnd of course, the guides talk a little bit about the inner workings of the Segways, remarkably intuitive machines that appear to defy the normal rules of balance. Creative MIT students have in the past baffled the public by somehow putting a replica of the lunar module, a fire truck and even the TARDIS time machine from the British TV show "Dr. The tour, of course, is intended to be fun too, and guides point out MIT's famous dome, the site of many university pranks. The guides point out various places on campus, including the building that houses the cyclotron, the birthplace of nuclear medicine, and the I.M. MIT was not involved in the planning, but the tour has the university's blessing. O'Brien carries another modern innovation, an iPad, to illustrate his talks with pictures and historic maps at stops along the way. In fact, O'Brien said, the area of Cambridge known as Lechmere was once a marsh and is French for "sea of leeches." He points out that much of the land in the area was marshy in colonial times and has been filled in. "Museum staff have even seen a bald eagle fishing here," tour manager Evan O'Brien said. The one-hour tour starts across the street from the museum at the North Point Park, where guides point out the plants and wildlife including geese, coots and red-tailed hawks. "They came to us and we said let's put these two together and see how it's received." "It was a natural fit," said Mary Beth Alosa of Segway of Boston, an authorized dealership. The tour, $60 for museum members and $65 for nonmembers, has been in the works for about a year. It plans on four tours of six people each per day at first, hopefully increasing as the weather improves and word gets out.Įmployees have used Segways for years inside the museum as sort of mobile information kiosks, but this is the first time they are available to visitors. The museum bought a fleet of 30 Segways, each featuring bright red fenders and the museum's logo on the wheel coverings. "There are surprising number of different birds who make their habitat right in the city," Fontaine said. ![]() ![]() The parks and shoreline around the building are full of native flora and fauna, and the museum is right down the street from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the birthplace of some of the nation's greatest scientific achievements, Fontaine said. "This was just a natural extension of what we already do." "We have all this science and technology of the human world packed within a few miles of the museum," Fontaine said. He got his wish Friday with the launch of the Museum of Science Segway Experience, an outdoor tour of the area around the museum using the gyroscopic, two-wheel transporters, themselves a marvel of science. Paul Fontaine, vice president of education, has for years wanted to expand beyond the bricks and mortar. BOSTON (AP).- Boston's Museum of Science has exhibits on natural history, dinosaurs, space travel and electricity, all enclosed within four walls. ![]()
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