Imagination Station

Science & History Museum in Historic Downtown Wilson, NC💡 Where Wonders Never Cease

[Secretary Reid Wilson @SecReidWilson]

Tremendous visit to ⁦@WilsonNC⁩ - ⁦@ImaginationStat⁩ kids’ museum, ⁦@WilsonArtsNC⁩ gallery & theater, Vollis Simpson ⁦@whirligigpark⁩. Arts have been huge boon to economic development in Wilson. ⁦@TrailNc⁩ ⁦@ncculture⁩

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Excited to welcome Iani smithi to the world! Iani is our 3rd new #dinosaur from the @BLMNational Mussentuchit Mbr, UT (3+ on the way!) & helps fill data gaps at the dawn of the Late Cretaceous when Earth was becoming a 'super greenhouse,' part of our @NSF mid-Cretaceous project

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

Athena is very happy to be inside on this rainy Thursday. Stop by this Saturday at 2pm to see her and her friends for our snake feeding!
#imaginationstationnc #ballpython #snakefeeding

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

It makes us so happy to see Big Red in its new home @KenlyTFLM!

[Tobacco Farm Life Museum @KenlyTFLM]

#ThrowbackThursday

This tobacco warehouse scale was used to weigh cured tobacco when it was brought to market & can measure up to 2,000 pounds or one ton.

This working scale is an interactive opportunity. Step right up on your next visit!

#TBT #VisitJoCo #WeightsAndMeasures

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

We found a few of these nibbling on the dill in the pollinator garden this morning. What butterfly or moth will this guy become? #imaginationstationnc #pollinatorgarden #chrysalisorcocoon

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

@cooper_suggs @NashCC Thank you for what you do for our community!

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

Zane had fun making the first stepping stone today. He knows a lot about honey bees! You can make stepping stones to help finish putting the fun in our pollinator garden too! Every Saturday in July #imaginationstationnc #pollinators #steppingstoneproject

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

The tallest, coolest tower of the summer so far! #imaginationstationnc #talltowerchallenge

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

@coveydenton This is why you’re one of our favorite science teachers 👩‍🏫

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

Athena the ball python is ready for feeding today. Major points for anyone who can tell us why she’s called a ball python. #imaginationstationnc #weloveourherps

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

@coveydenton You are correct!!

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

@SallieBHoward Cuetzopali, the Sudan plated lizard

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

Do bees make butter? Find out at next Tuesday's Preschool Science Says class. July 13. It's free! https://t.co/UFuijVt1md #imaginationstationnc #PreschoolScience

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

@jackmjenkins

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

Help us make 100 stepping stones for the pollinator garden every Saturday in July. #imaginationstationnc #pollinators

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

So much is happening right now! - https://t.co/XbENEDTUT7

[Imagination Station @ImaginationStat]

Check out the new Mars Rover photo! #NASA
https://t.co/gKJu9Weist

[ABC News @ABC]

TOUCHDOWN: NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully lands on the surface of Mars.

Presented by @AdobeDocCloud.

https://t.co/IOTdcyTAe9 #CountdowntoMars

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

Touchdown! Mars rover Perseverance has landed on the Red Planet! The #CountdownToMars has ended in success. Next up: science!

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

Radar locked and cameras on. Looking for a safe spot for touchdown. About to cut free from a perfectly good parachute. I’m all in.
#CountdownToMars