The EcoTarium's museum building features three floors of hands-on, interactive exhibits that explore the natural and physical sciences and our New England environment. Each year, the museum welcomes dynamic traveling exhibits, as well as houses permanent installations that make creative use of the museum's natural history collection and living wildlife. Our exhibits make learning fun and are designed to engage a family audience.
Temporary Exhibits
Attack of the Bloodsuckers!
Opening January 17 - Explore the science of what’s biting you! Through many interactive exhibits, learn about mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, leeches, and other bloodsucking parasites in this skin-crawling exhibition.
Wallace & Gromit™: Get Cracking!
Closing January 4 - Step into the north England home of cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his loyal and intelligent dog, Gromit!
Permanent Exhibits
City Science: The Science You Live
Discover the hidden science stories all around us at the EcoTarium’s hands-on interactive exhibit, City Science. This immersive exploration of the modern city allows visitors to investigate the science we encounter every day but rarely stop to consider.
Lift Off! Space Explorers
Discover what it takes to launch a rocket into orbit, explore the hidden mysteries of our universe, and imagine your place in the future of space exploration!
The Arctic Next Door: Mount Washington
The Arctic Next Door takes visitors on a virtual journey to explore the weather and geology of Mount Washington.
Water Planet
Explore how one of our most vital resources shapes our planet.
Secrets of the Forest
Uncover what's living. Unlike the forests in your neighborhood, this one has plenty of comfortable places to sit... and a small stage.
Preschool Discovery Area
Enrich the minds of young visitors. The EcoTarium has a dedicated space for preschool-aged children to play, create and investigate science and nature.
Curator’s Workshop
Enter the office of an 1820's natural history curator! This touching-approved area allows visitors to handle and investigate real seashells, gems, fossils, and bones.
Natural History Showcase
The EcoTarium owns a natural history collection of over 50,000 specimens. Each quarter, we will pull one of the hidden gems from our collection to put on display.
Natural History Collection
Specimens from the natural world! Although a large portion of the collection can be seen on display, the EcoTarium also has many materials in storage.
Mineral Dome
The Mineral Dome contains 100 rare crystals and stones displayed under beautiful hand-painted skylights.