BOSTON-Boston Museum of science exhibits on natural history, dinosaurs, space and electricity, has included all four walls.
Paul Fontaine, Vice President for education, has for years wanted to expand on the brick and mortar addition. He got his wish Friday with the launch of the Museum of the science of Segway experience, an outdoor tour of the area near the Museum using the gyroscopic, two-wheel transporter, itself a miracle of science.
"We have all this science and technology of the human world packed within a few miles of the Museum," Fontaine said. "It was just a natural extension of what we already do."
The parks and coast around the building are full of native flora and fauna, and the Museum Institute directly across the street from the Massachusetts of technology in Cambridge, the birthplace of some of the greatest scientific achievements of the country, Fontaine said.
"There are surprisingly many species of birds, making their living space right in the city," said Fontaine.
The Museum a fleet of 30 Segways bought each with bright red wings and the Museum logo on the wheel covers,. It is planning as the weather improved and word out comes on four tours of six persons per day on the first, hopefully rising.
Employees have Segways for years inside the Museum as art mobile information kiosks used, but this is the first time they visitors available.
The tour, $60 for Museum members and $65 for non-members, was in the works for about a year.
"It was a natural fit," said Mary Beth Alosa of Segway of Boston, an authorized dealer. "they came to us and we said these two let us together and see how it is received."
The one-hour tour starts across the street from the Museum to the North Point Park, where guides of the flora and fauna including geese, coots and Red - tailed hawks point.
"Employees of the Museum a white bald eagle here fish saw," said tour manager Evan O'Brien.
He pointed out that the large tract of land in the area was colonial era and has been filled. In fact, said O'Brien, area as Lechmere was once a swamp of Cambridge known and is French for "Sea of leeches."
O'Brien enters another modern innovation, IOS, to illustrate his talks with pictures and historical maps at stops along the way.
MIT was not involved in the planning, but the tour has the University blessing. The leaders point out different locations on the campus, including the birthplace, of the building, the the cyclotron nuclear medicine and the 54 i.m. Pei designed building houses.
The tour of course is supposed to be fun, and is the site of many University pranks on to MIT on the famous dome,. Creative MIT students have in the past baffled the public by you somehow a replica of the lunar module, a fire truck and even the TARDIS time machine from the British TV show "Dr. Who" on the dome.
The tour highlights including American history, including the period in which British troops landed after crossing Boston Harbor before the long March to the battles of Lexington and Concord from their boats.
And of course the leaders talk a bit about the inner workings of Segways, seem remarkably intuitive machines that defy the normal rules of the balance.
In fact, before the Museum can someone on a Segway, they need a half hour training.
"The No. 1 priority is always safety," said O'Brien.
The tour is likely as Museum finds out what visitors like and staff develop aversion. But the ultimate aim is for visitors to enjoy themselves.
"Segways only really are fun," said Shad.
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If you go...
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE SEGWAY EXPERIENCE: one hour Segway tour of Cambridge, mass., by the Museum of science, is located in 1 Science Park. Tickets from http://www.mos.org or 617-723-2500, $ 65. At 10 a.m., 11 a.m., lunch daily offered must 1 am participants at least 14 years old and weigh between 100 and 260 pounds. Persons under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
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