Museum Name: COSI Columbus
Schedule: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm & Sunday, 12pm-6pm
Established: 1964
Address: 333 West Broad Street, Columbus Ohio 43215
Phone Number: 614-228-2674
Fax Number: 614-629-3150
Director: Dr. David Chesebrough
Website: www.cosi.org
Focus: COSI Columbus is one of the most respected science centers in the nation * serving 18 million visitors since 1964. Over these four decades, COSI has continued to create programs and experiences that make science fun, while empowering and engaging visitors through hands-on discovery. The name "COSI" stands for Center of Science and Industry.
Cost: Adults $12.50, Seniors, $10.50, Youth, $7.50
Class Trip Programs : Field Trips to COSI are a great way to introduce new topics, reinforce the standards, apply your classroom curriculum to the real world, and find fun new ways to investigate science. COSI offers help with content, themes, scavenger hunts, live shows, demonstrations, movies, and new programs your students can experience at COSI.
Class Trip Pricing: Go to www.cosi.org and click on Educators, then click on plan your class visit for pricing details.

At COSI, you'll be dazzled, amazed and delighted as your family explores one incredible wonder after another. COSI features more than 300 interactive exhibits throughout our discovery-based and themed exhibition areas * Ocean, Space Gadgets, Life, little kidspace®, Progress and our outdoor Big Science Park. The exhibition areas provide experiences for all age levels to creatively combine science facts and learning through play. Beyond the exhibits, you'll find COSI's hair-raising Electrostatic Generator Show, the only High-Wire Unicycle in the country, a seven-story Extreme Screen theater, a Science 2Go! retail store and the Atomicafe' restaurant. COSI also hosts world-class traveling exhibitions from other museums throughout the year.

Space
Enter a world of rockets and rovers as you search the universe, examining past discoveries, today's technology, and the infinite possibilities of the future!

Ocean
Explore the fun, power, and mystery of the seas!

Big Science Park
In Big Science Park, larger-than-life experiments make you a part of the science fun!

little kidspace®
Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers can discover science in this area designed just for them!

Life
Life explores the body, mind, and spirit of the human experience.

Progress
Travel back through time to a Midwestern town and its newest technology, first in 1898 and then in 1962.

Gadgets
Gadgets is an inventor's paradise, with exhibits and tools you can use to investigate the gadgets we use daily.