# Adventure Science Center

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**Adventure Science Center** is a non-profit [science museum](/source/Science_museum) for children located in [Nashville, Tennessee](/source/Nashville,_Tennessee).[1][2][3][4]

The museum features over 175 hands-on interactive exhibits with themes including biology, physics, visual perception, listening, mind, air and space, energy and earth science. The building includes 44,000 square feet of exhibit space, a 75-foot-tall adventure tower and the Sudekum [Planetarium](/source/Planetarium).[5]

## History

The organization was opened in 1945 as the Children’s Museum of Nashville, under the vision of naturalist [John Ripley Forbes](/source/John_Ripley_Forbes), and was located in [Lindsley Hall](/source/Nashville_Children's_Museum) in downtown Nashville.[6] The first planetarium opened in 1952. In 1974 the museum moved to its current location in Old Saint Cloud Hill, the site of [Fort Negley](/source/Fort_Negley) during the [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War).

The organization’s name changed over the years, most recently from Cumberland Science Museum to Adventure Science Center in November 2002.[7]

## References

1. ["MAD Bash Fundraiser Planned At Adventure Science Center"](http://www.newschannel5.com/news/education/mad-bash-fundraiser-planned-at-adventure-science-center). *WTVF*. 2016-02-20. Retrieved 2016-06-30.

1. Robert Yager & John Falk (4 October 2007). [*Exemplary Science In Informal Education Settings:Standards-Based Success Stories*](https://books.google.com/books?id=k17e9d8KQ14C&dq=%22Adventure+Science+Center%22&pg=PA65). NSTA Press. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-933531-62-5.

1. ["Adventure Science Center Celebrates New Year"](http://www.newschannel5.com/news/adventure-science-center-celebrates-new-year). *WTVF*. 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2016-06-30.

1. Martinez, Debbie (2016-03-11). ["There's More to Nashville Than Country Music"](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debbie-martinez/theres-more-to-nashville-_b_9439244.html). *The Huffington Post*. Retrieved 2016-06-30.

1. Jackie Sheckler Finch (12 April 2011). [*Insiders' Guide® to Nashville, 8th*](https://books.google.com/books?id=zm_yt4rr7K8C&pg=PA181). [Rowman & Littlefield](/source/Rowman_%26_Littlefield). pp. 181–. ISBN 978-0-7627-7476-0.

1. ["Overview"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141103183430/http://www.adventuresci.org/overview/). Adventure Science Center. Archived from [the original](http://www.adventuresci.org/overview/) on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 19 July 2016.

1. ["Cumberland Science Museum becomes Adventure Science Center"](http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2002/11/04/daily19.html). Nashville Business Journal. November 6, 2002. Retrieved 19 July 2016.

## External links

- [Adventure Science Center](http://www.adventuresci.org/)

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