Amazement Square, the Rightmire Children's Museum has partnered with The Babcock and Wilcox Companies in developing the exciting hands-on interactive exhibition, Watt's Up? The Energy Around Us!, on the theme of energy. It explores the various forms of renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy as it celebrates the 50th Anniversary of BWC.

Designed to travel to other venues after its initial showing at Amazement Square, the exhibition is comprised of several hands-on stations that enable visitors to explore and learn about renewable sources of energy by interacting with and engaging a solar powered race car model; creating a wind powered energy source to turn on the lights in a model home; using a small scale hydroelectric generator to turn on street lights in a miniaturized cityscape; and exploring the ins and outs of biomass fuels. Nonrenewable sources are highlighted at stations that explore fossil fuels and their use, nuclear energy and its applications in medical science, space exploration and electricity. For more information, please call the museum
at (434) 845-1888.

Amazement Square is showcasing a hands-on interactive exhibition, Ancient Egypt: Life and Afterlife on the Nile. Developed by Amazement Square, this exhibition enables museum visitors to learn about Egyptian hieroglyphics as they record their own history in hieroglyphics. Visitors can also explore every-day life working as a farmer or pharaoh, or they can sail down the Nile in an Egyptian Royal Hunting boat. In preparation for the afterlife, visitors can build the Great Pyramid of Giza, prepare a body for mummification and explore the treasures of a pharaoh's tomb! Regardess of which side of the Nile you're on, you're guaranteed an
amazing adventure!