Since premiering in February 2000, Grossology has earned “blockbuster” status, setting new all-time attendance records at most of the venues it’s visited, including Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, St. Louis Science Center, Science World, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and more.Grossology is a fun, exciting and educationally stimulating exhibition based on the best-selling book Grossology by science teacher Sylvia Branzei. Grossology is basically science in disguise, using gross terms to explain to children ages 6 to 14 how and why their bodies produce the mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and stinky things they do. “If we teach students in their words, they’ll understand better and actually learn something,” says Branzei. Guess what? It works. And it attracts kids. Lots of kids.
The exhibition uses imaginative, interactive hands-on exhibits to actively engage visitors. Many of the 11 interactive exhibits are right from the larger exhibition.
- Just imagine! You can:
- Meet an animatronic “Nigel Nose-it-All” character who teaches you about your nose including mucus, allergies, air filtering and snot trivia…
- Act like a kidney and purify the bloodstream…
- Learn the central role of the brain during vomiting…
- Climb a large-scale replica of human skin…
- Look inside the body to see exactly what happens during digestion…
- Have a 10-foot-tall character teach you how gas pressure and the stomach’s cardiac sphincter play a major role in the production of burps…
- Test your knowledge by playing “Let’s Play Grossology”
Yes, it’s gross, but behind every exhibit is a sound scientific base and “Gross Factoids” are used throughout the exhibition space to emphasize interesting science facts. Visitors not only have fun, they learn something in the process.
Grossology is also available in a larger, 5,000-square-foot version. Contact Advanced Exhibits for details.