Museum Name: HealthSpace Cleveland
Schedule: W-Sat: 10-4:30, Sun:12-4:30, Mon & Tue: Closed
Established: 1936
Address: 8911 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland , Ohio
Phone Number: 216.231.5010
Fax Number: 216.231.5129
Director: Patricia Horvath
Website: www.healthspacecleveland.org
Focus
For over 70 years HealthSpace Cleveland (The Health Museum of Cleveland) has been 100% committed to health and life science education of our community. Our commitment to health education has evolved into a passion for providing positive experiences and important information to our community.
As HealthSpace Cleveland has grown, our dedication to health education has expanded across the country and around the globe. Our wide-reaching distance-learning program delivers real-time interactive health education programs throughout the region and the world. Our Health on Wheels outreach program hits the road several days a week. HealthSpace Cleveland's vast exhibit floor, well-equipped labs and numerous learning theatres offer entertaining hands-on learning experiences to thousands of visitors per year. We are proud of our diverse learning streams that provide unlimited opportunities to children and families region wide, nationwide and worldwide.
Seven decades ago HealthSpace Cleveland's founders established more than a health education institution, they ensured a positive future that nurtures our entire community. Our commitment and our passion continue to grow. Now more than ever, HealthSpace Cleveland has the inspiration and the vision to steward a healthy future for our community.
Ages: All
Costs: Adults $7, Students & Seniors $5, Ages 3 & 4 $3

Class Trip Pricing: All outreach educational programs offered by the Morse Museum are free of charge.  For class trips to visit the museum, admission fees are $1 per student.

The Road to Good Health
Our themed exhibit area is a real-life adventure filled with places to play and things to learn as students journey through the stages of life on a road-trip full of fun, informative destinations along the way.

Highlights on Your Journey:
Go Go Grill
Our customized deli wagon serves up a healthy portion of nutrition information along with loads of fun. Use a simple sorting game to learn how to properly store and serve a variety of foods. Compare the amounts of sugar in some of your favorite drinks. Build a meal from the menus of the most popular fast food restaurants, and discover how it impacts your recommended daily intake for calories, fat, sodium, carbohydrates, and more. Or just climb behind the wheel and listen to some tunes.

Stress Yard
The clutter of a salvage yard is akin to the mental disarray that can cause stress. Here, you'll discover common causes of stress, how it affects you physically and emotionally, and techniques for reducing stress in your everyday life. Interact with a kinetic sculpture that demonstrates biological responses to stress. Then step up to a video booth to watch and practice various methods of stress reduction, such as meditation, visualization, massage, and yoga.

Waterworks
Much like a water treatment plant cleans water and disposes of waste, your kidneys clean your blood before returning it for recirculation throughout your body. Stop by our renal tank for a figurative, hands-on demonstration of how your kidneys filter water and waste from the bloodstream to produce urine. Engage an interactive program that explains osmosis and how your kidneys use it to regulate how much water remains in your bloodstream. And learn how becoming an organ donor can save lives.

Rebuild Factory
Think of it as a parts shop for your skeleton. This is the place to learn about the muscles, bones, and joints that put your body in motion. Examine real bones, and see how they fit together. Play with models that demonstrate the range of motion for every joint in your body. And learn about the orthopedic profession, and discover the techniques and tools used to repair musculoskeletal injuries.

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2006 Exhibits:
On exhibit now!

Langerhan's Fuel Spot
Named after the Islets of Langerhan, an area in the pancreas where insulin is produced, the exhibit is built around a full-scale motorcycle and gas pump. The concept of the exhibit is to compare your body to a finely tuned engine. Everything that your body needs to perform at an optimal level is described in the exhibit. Special focus is made on diabetes and on caring for diabetes. Langerhan's Fuel Spot also offers information on healthy eating, physical activity, health monitoring and medications that can control diabetes.

On exhibit July 1- September 22, 2006
Shooting Blind: Photographs by the Visually Impaired exhibition gives us entry to another world-a reality that is at once mysterious, evocative, and beautiful, arousing a blend of memories and emotions. These unique photographs are made by Seeing with Photography, a collective of photographers, with varying degrees of visual abilities, that have been active in New York for over seven years. The members use their cameras to explore the world and better understand themselves while creating luminous works of art. These remarkable images are made using Polaroid's positive/negative film as well as an old technique called "painting with light," in which flashlights are used to illuminate the subjects over long exposures in complete darkness. Through this process the photographers achieve a result of striking imagery imbued with a charged and bristling energy, distinct from the ordinary.

Class Trip Programs:
Arrange a fun day out and bring the kids to our classroom. With new exhibits and learning experiences, we've got what it takes to deliver larger-than-life science.

A visit to HealthSpace Cleveland offers your students information-rich educational experiences in a space custom designed for interactive learning. Our facility gives you the opportunity to create a custom experience for your students by combining classes, labs and the exhibits for a truly memorable adventure in learning.

Experience our exhibits along the Road to Good Health - a real life adventure with places to play and things to learn as you wind through the stages of life.

Make important health decisions in Head First! - our immersive theater experience housed in a stylized human head.

Spend time in the Frohring Health Education Center . A full menu of education options is available so your students make the most of this wonderful space!

Class Trip Pricing
Self-guided exhibit hall experience - 2 hours $5 per student

Groups of 15 or more: $4 per student

Self-guided exhibit hall experience plus a one-hour program - 3 hours $150

Self-guided exhibit hall experience plus a two-hour program - 4 hours $400

Self-guided exhibit hall experience plus a 30-minute theatre program - 2 hours $150