It was renamed the Museum of Science in , under a dynamic new Director. The contents of the latter, including the first intact mastadon , were removed to the American Museum of Natural History of New York City in Under the leadership of Bradford Washburn , the Society negotiated with the Metropolitan District Commission for a year lease of the land now known as Science Park.
Construction and development began in , and the Museum opened in , arguably the first all-encompassing science museum in the country. In these first few years, the Museum developed a traveling planetarium, a version of which is still brought to many elementary schools in the Greater Boston area every year. They also obtained during these early years "Spooky," a great horned owl who became a symbol or mascot of the Museum; he lived to age 38, the longest any great horned owl is known to have lived.
Today, a number of other taxidermed specimens remain on display, teaching children about the animals of New England and of the world. Many more expansions continued into the s and s. A major renovation and expansion took place during and In , the Charles Hayden Planetarium was closed for renovation. The Museum offers many free live presentations to the visitors including: [ 6 ]. Look at recent climate study, talk about uncertainties surrounding climate science, and discuss how to make better choices for our planet.
Indoor bolts are produced by world's largest Van de Graaff generator including talk on lightning, electric charge, and storm safety. Explore the adaptation, behaviors, ecology, and environments of animals with the museum's animal residents.
Although the history artifacts of "The Computer Museum" were moved to Silicon Valley and forms the current Computer History Museum , TCM educational exhibits and objects were transferred to the Boston Museum of Science where two new computing and technology exhibits were created.
One, The Computing Revolution, relates the history of computing through a variety of hands-on interactive exhibits, while the other, Cahners Computer Place, houses displays ranging from educational video games to an interactive AIBO ERS Jump to: navigation , search. Museum of Science, Boston. During the s, as the English Civil War reached its climax, the founder of English Quakerism George Fox — discovered his religious vocation. In she supported Anne Hutchinson , who believed that God 'spoke directly to individuals' and not only through the clergy.
They removed to Portsmouth in the Rhode Island colony together with the religious group they had formed. Speedwell was the ship which had first set out for the Americas with the Mayflower in , but was forced to return to Plymouth having transferred her party of Pilgrims to the Mayflower. As required by Boston law their arrival was notified, and they were brought immediately to court and imprisoned on the orders of Governor John Endecott , under sentence of banishment.
After eleven weeks Holder, Copeland and the other six Quakers of the Speedwell were deported to England, but they immediately took steps to return. Mary Dyer, who had gone back to England with Roger Williams and John Clarke in , had there heard the ministry of George Fox and became a Friend, and she and her husband also returned to Rhode Island in Holder and Copeland returned to Massachusetts and met with and convinced other Friends in Sandwich and other towns, but were arrested at Salem by Endecott and imprisoned for several months.
They were released, but in April were rearrested at Sandwich and whipped. In June they went to Boston and were again arrested, and Holder's right ear was cut off as a judicial penalty. Katherine Scott, Anne Hutchinson's sister, spoke up for them and was imprisoned and whipped. At the end of the Massachusetts legislature, by a bare majority, enacted a law that every member of the sect of Quakers who was not an inhabitant of the colony but was found within its jurisdiction should be apprehended without warrant by any constable and imprisoned, and on conviction as a Quaker, should be banished upon pain of death, and that every inhabitant of the colony convicted of being a Quaker should be imprisoned for a month, and if obstinate in opinion should be banished on pain of death.
Some Friends were arrested and expelled under this law. Marmaduke Stephenson had been a ploughman in Yorkshire in England in , when he felt what he believed to be the love and presence of the living God as he followed the plough.
Leaving his family to the Lord's care, he followed the divine prompting to Barbados in June , and after some time there he heard of the new Massachusetts law and passed over to Rhode Island. There he met William Robinson, another Friend from the company of the Woodhouse , and in June with two others they went into the Massachusetts colony to protest at their laws.
Mary Dyer went for the same purpose. The three were arrested and banished, but Robinson and Stephenson returned and were again imprisoned. Mary Dyer went back to protest at their treatment, and was also imprisoned.
In October , Endecott, as per the instruction of the law previously passed, pronounced sentence of death upon the three. The execution day was Thursday 27 October the usual weekly meeting day for the Church in Boston , and the gallows stood on Boston Common.
They spoke as they were led there, but their words were drowned out by the sound of drums.
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