AirPlay Gallery
Explore the properties of moving air in fun and exciting ways!
In the AirPlay Gallery you will find printed copies of our Exploration Learning Guide for parents and caregivers, a resource of prompts and suggestions to support exploration of the gallery's STEAM topic with your child. You can also review and print the Guide here online in one of eight languages prior to your visit, and/or after your visit for ideas for post-visit activities and conversations that reinforce learning:
In This Exhibit
A-Mazing Airways
Explore and demonstrate the incredible power of air with our 13’-foot-tall interactive pneumatic sculpture of tubes and blowers!
Bernoulli Blowers
Suspend ping-pong balls on columns of air using hairdryers. Tilt the balls to float them above air or make them jump through a hoop.
Airflow
Move ping-pong balls through tubes or float them above short and tall columns of air to discover surprising phenomena.