Motion Mania: Move Your Mind

Children, families and people of all ages can discover what makes the world go round at “Motion Mania: Move Your Mind!”, a new hands-on exhibition at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.

Motion pervades nature. Everything on the earth experiences motion, from people and plants to spinning tops and moving pictures. Motion leads to change and change holds our attention. All animals – and probably plants – have sensory receptors to detect motion and change as part of their biological structures.

Featuring more than 30 hands-on exhibits, the new “Motion Mania” exhibition at the Fleet encourages children and adults to explore many kinds of motion, from those that underlie the solar system (circular motion), to pendular motions, fluid motion and motion illusions.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to visit the Fleet’s newest in-house exhibition, an
interactive kinetic sculpture called the “Kuglebahn”. The “Kuglebahn” highlights many different forms of energy, including potential (stored energy), kinetic (energy of motion), sound, and electromagnetic energy. Using everyday items ranging from a wok and a lacrosse stick to billiard balls and a bike wheel, the “Kugleban” requires no electricity. Visitors provide the needed energy by turning its handle, setting in motion a series of energy transformations that are fascinating to behold.

$8.75-$14.50

1875 El Prado, San Diego  

619-238-1233