Mid-America Science Museum
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| Established | 1979 |
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| Location | 500 Mid America Blvd Hot Springs, Arkansas |
| Coordinates | 34°30′53″N 93°06′57″W / 34.5148°N 93.1159°W |
| Type | Science museum |
| Website | www.midamericamuseum.org |
The Mid-America Science Museum is located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has more than 100 hands-on traveling and permanent exhibits. Many permanent exhibits were built in the early 1980s.
Several of Rowland Emett's "things" (kinetic sculptures) are at the museum, including The Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basketweave Mark Two Gentleman’s Flying Machine, and several that appear in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as inventions of the character Caractacus Potts.
One of the museum's permanent exhibits is the powerful conical Tesla coil, which can produce 1.5 million volts of electricity.[1]
The museum's building was originally completed in 1982 and designed by architects E. Verner Johnson & Associates of Boston and Stuck Frier Lane Scott Beisner of Jonesboro.[2]
The museum is built on a wooded park some 6.5 miles west of downtown Hot Springs. It is located on Mid-America Boulevard, off Arkansas Highway 227.