Visiting this hands-on museum with my family is such fun! Where else can you find a life-sized, WET!, and accurate representation of the water cycle through all of its phases? At the water table, kids don vinyl aprons and redirect the "river's" flow. The water cycle re-enactment takes up a good quarter of the museum, with a sun to evaporate... more
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Address: 13240 S. West Bayshore Drive
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Tel: 231-932-4526
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