5,000-square-foot version
2,500-square-foot version

The Robot Zoo
(5,000-square-foot version)

TRAVELING EXHIBIT REVEALS BIOMECHANICS OF ROBOT ANIMALS
Children across the nation can explore the biomechanics of complex animal robots to discover how real animals work, thanks to a touring exhibit, “The Robot Zoo.”

The 5,000-square-foot exhibit reveals the magic of nature as a master engineer. Eight robot animals and more than a dozen hands-on activities illustrate fascinating real-life characteristics, such as how a chameleon changes colors, a giant squid propels itself and a fly walks on the ceiling.

The larger-than-life-size animated robots include a chameleon, a rhinoceros, a giant squid with 18-foot tentacles and a platypus. Also featured are a house fly with a 10-foot wingspread, a grasshopper, a bat and a giraffe whose head and neck alone stretch 9 feet tall.

Cutaways expose the animals’ insides as a host of easily recognizable machine parts and gadgets, such as shock absorbers and pumps, that demonstrate what makes animals work. By comparing anatomy, environments and size of the actual creatures to the mechanic counterparts, The Robot Zoo provides fantastic new insights and hands-on fun for discovering just how animals work.

The Robot Zoo
(5,000-square-foot version)

TRAVELING EXHIBIT REVEALS BIOMECHANICS OF ROBOT ANIMALS
Children across the nation can explore the biomechanics of complex animal robots to discover how real animals work, thanks to a touring exhibit, “The Robot Zoo.”

The 5,000-square-foot exhibit reveals the magic of nature as a master engineer. Eight robot animals and more than a dozen hands-on activities illustrate fascinating real-life characteristics, such as how a chameleon changes colors, a giant squid propels itself and a fly walks on the ceiling.

The larger-than-life-size animated robots include a chameleon, a rhinoceros, a giant squid with 18-foot tentacles and a platypus. Also featured are a house fly with a 10-foot wingspread, a grasshopper, a bat and a giraffe whose head and neck alone stretch 9 feet tall.

Cutaways expose the animals’ insides as a host of easily recognizable machine parts and gadgets, such as shock absorbers and pumps, that demonstrate what makes animals work. By comparing anatomy, environments and size of the actual creatures to the mechanic counterparts, The Robot Zoo provides fantastic new insights and hands-on fun for discovering just how animals work.

Above and Beyond brings flight to life!

  • An expansive multitouch timeline
  • An immersive video experience
  • 5 interactive galleries: up, faster, farther, higher, and smarter
  • Interactive simulations and design activities
  • Stories about the people behind the advances in flight
  • A montage of dreamers and doers, who share their excitement for their jobs and the next century of flight
  •  Add your own dreams to a collaborative vision of flight 100 years from now

ABOVE AND BEYOND is designed to ignite a passion for humankind’s greatest adventure: our journey of flight in the air and space. In doing so, it honors past world-changing innovations in flight, while looking ahead to what’s next and demonstrating the impact of aerospace breakthroughs in our everyday lives. The exhibition also serves to inspire children and young adults to imagine future careers in aerospace and support educators in building STEM awareness and skills among K-12 students. ABOVE AND BEYOND creates an uplifting and memorable experience that encourages all visitors to aim high and push past the impossible limits in their lives.

The exhibition is presented by Boeing, in collaboration with NASA and The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Select images from the 5,000-square-foot exhibition

National Corporate Partners:

Silicon Graphics, Inc.
TIME Magazine

Content Collaborator:

Marshall Editions
London, England

Current/Upcoming Venues (5,000-square-foot version)

Horniman Public Museum 
London, United Kingdom
February 14, 2025 – November 2, 2025

Sampling of Prior Host Venues:

Fernbank Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
Orlando Science Center, Orlando, Florida
National Geographic Explorers Hall, Washington D.C.
Museum of Discovery and Science, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Ontario Science Centre, North York, Ontario, Canada
Space Center Houston, Houston, Texas
Parc du Futuroscope, Jaunay-Clan, France
Museon, Den Haag, Netherlands
Techniek Museum, Hengelo, Netherlands
Science Center, Budapest, Hungary
Park Miniatur, Lodz, Poland
Sharjah Children’s Festival, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Exhibition Video

5,000-sq.-ft. version shown

Programs and Partnerships

The exhibition’s launch marks a range of milestones in the story of flight. The exhibition’s national sponsor, Boeing, is creating a broader celebration by supporting the development of activities, special aviation and aerospace events, education programs and more at local tour stops. Hosts for the exhibition will enjoy the broad coverage and extended promotional platform created around this celebration, which will help ensure the success of the exhibition and create many local and regional partnership opportunities for the host venues throughout the tour.

Now Showing:

Whitaker Center
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
March 7, 2025 – May 25, 2025

Greensboro Science Center
Greensboro, North Carolina
May 25, 2025 – September 1, 2025

Sampling of Prior Host Venues:

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Wash. DC
Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK (London)
Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois
Discovery Cube Orange County, Santa Ana, CA
US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Singapore Science Centre, Singapore
Space Center Houston, Houston, Texas
Hong Kong Science Museum, Hong Kong
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, Denver, Colorado
Orlando Science Center, Orlando, Florida
New York Hall of Science, New York City
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
National Museum of the USAF, Dayton, OH (Wright-Patterson AFB)

To learn more about The Robot Zoo:

Christi Klingelhefer
210.582.0015
christi@evergreenexhibitions.com