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BRAIN POWER  The two-story neural network installation that is a part of the Franklin Institute’s Your Brain exhibit allows visitors to conceptualize the wiring of the mind through a distinctly physical museum experience.

The Franklin Institute

By Science News Staff

Your Brain

OPENS JUNE 14

Clamber through a two-story neural network, explore brain images and learn how scientists study the brain in the Franklin Institute’s newest, and largest, permanent exhibit.

Franklin Institute, Philadelphia

Museum at Prairiefire

OPENED MAY 12

This new museum, located in a retail development, offers a selection of exhibits created by the American Museum of Natural History.

Overland Park, Kan.

Inside Rodin’s Hands: Art,Technology and Surgery

THROUGH AUGUST 3

Augmented-reality views of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures reveal medical conditions in the sculpted hands.

Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. 

A version of this article appears in the June 14, 2014 issue of Science News.

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