Test your engineering skills by assembling a 5-foot Beehive! Build it with your group or try to build it by yourself….are you up to the challenge? WonderLab’s Beehive Builder is a large scale, soft, build-it-yourself model of a beehive. Building the beehive is a teamwork challenge that encourages participation from all ages.

Once your hive is built don some wings and buzz around – in and out of the hive, just like a honey bee. While you’re at WonderLab also be sure to visit the WonderLab Observation Beehive, located on the museum’s second floor. The observation beehive is home to a small working colony of honeybees that fly in and out  to forage on the plants in the WonderLab garden.

The Beehive Builder exhibit is made possible by funding from CenterPoint Energy Foundation.

HoverCrafts provides a gateway to the engineering process through hands-on planning, construction, testing, and iteration. Visitors are encouraged to tinker and adjust their creations to achieve individual design goals. How high will your craft hover, float, or fly?

HoverCrafts is located on the first floor of the museum and includes a rotating selection of WonderLab-provided building materials. Suitable for most ages, visitors’ creations can be launched up the wind tunnel with just the push of a button.

HoverCrafts is funded by National Science Foundation grants to the Experimental Nuclear Physics group at Indiana University, and built by staff at the IU Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter and the IU Department of Physics.

Discover a portal to a hidden world through WonderLab’s new  immersive hands-on exhibit that explores the complexity and beauty of desert life.

• Get face to face with desert animals like the blue-tongued skink, big-headed ants and vinegaroons.
• Crawl, climb and skitter into the desert!
• What can you discover?

Hidden Life of Deserts is located on the second floor and is included with the price of general admission.

Hidden Life of Deserts is made possible by generous support from the National Science Foundation award to Indiana University Professor Dr. Andrew Zelhof, Brabson Library & Educational Foundation, and Royal on the Eastside / Subaru of America.

Build volcanoes and watch them erupt over the ocean’s shore. Carve out a pathway along the side of the Rocky Mountains. Discover elevation levels in the Arctic. Visitors can find themselves anywhere in the world as SandScapes switches between climates and biomes.

The SandScapes exhibit is made possible by generous funding from the Brabson Library and Educational Foundation and Royal on the Eastside / Subaru of America.