Buffalo Museum of Science
Buffalo Museum of Science, December 2009
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| Established | 1861 |
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| Location | Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42°54′22″N 78°50′36″W / 42.906132°N 78.843314°W |
| Type | Science |
| President | Marisa Wigglesworth |
| Curator | Kathryn Leacock |
| Website | www |
The Buffalo Museum of Science is a science museum located at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Buffalo, New York, United States, northeast of the downtown district, near the Kensington Expressway. The historic building was designed by August Esenwein and James A. Johnson and opened in 1929. The attractions include exhibits showcasing animals, astronomy, the science of technology, and additional science topics.
Explorations is an interactive gallery for children ages two to seven featuring new themes every month.
Explore You is a health systems science studio. The space was remodeled and opened in March 2012. The interactive exhibit gives a hands-on approach to health, exploring topics such as healthy choices, body systems, the heart, medical technology, genetics, and related research done in Western New York.
The Rethink Extinct Science Studio opened in March 2015 as remodel of the previous Extinction Gallery. This exhibit focuses on all aspects of extinction throughout the history of life on this planet including present-day extinctions and endangered plants and animals.
The Extinction Gallery was a collection of fossils and cultural pieces relating to organisms that have gone extinct on the planet. Specimens include 50-million-year-old birds, feathers and flowers, the earliest known land plant, a trilobite trapped in a seashell nearly 400 million years ago, a cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, and Allosaurus fragilis. Many of the pieces in this space come from the previous Dinosaurs and Co. space at the museum.
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