The RMSC has launched the public phase of its $10 million capital campaign for innovation.

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RIT and RMSC will build upon and expand its existing collaborations to benefit both the RIT and greater Rochester communities. 

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The Rochester Museum & Science Center has been awarded funding from the Monroe County Industrial Development Corp. board to expand its Career Ladder workforce development program.

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The first in a series of five virtual events designed to celebrate local women will be held Tuesday evening. Rochester Museum & Science Center will begin its “Meet the Changemakers” speaker series on April 6 at 7 p.m. Attendees will ...

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The Rochester Museum & Science Center has acquired a new archival collection of Frederick Douglass materials including photos, pamphlets and more. The new collection, titled “The Anne Weaver Teabeau and Roland B. Scott Jr. Collection on Frederick Douglass,” was donated ...

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The Rochester Museum & Science Center’s Cumming Nature Center has expanded its outdoor education offerings with the acquisition of the Walden Project – New York. The Walden Project is integrated into the suite of outdoor Forest School educational opportunities for ...

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The “Take It Down! Organizing Against Racism” traveling exhibit has returned to its home at Rochester Museum & Science Center. This exhibit, about the Dentzel Menagerie Carousel panel, discusses racism in the past and today, and inspires new dialogues about ...

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The Rochester Museum & Science Center will offer a new program aimed at Rochester City School District kids to immerse them in African and African-American culture and history. The collaboration, “A Journey Through Time in African-American History,” will take place Feb. ...

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Rochester Museum & Science Center is challenging the community to reflect on how racist media influences people’s lives through a new permanent exhibition. “Objectively Racist: How Objects and Images Perpetuate Racism … And What We Can Do To Change It” ...

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Rochester Museum and Science Center is the new home of a top-secret satellite from the 1960s. The optical system of Gambit-1, a previously classified national reconnaissance satellite designed and manufactured in Rochester in the ’60s, is now on display at ...

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The Strasenburgh Planetarium at the Rochester Museum & Science Center will hold a video game championship this weekend. The video game demo and championship is part of Super City Saturday, a part of Rochester’s first annual multi-venue pop culture festival ...

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  Rochester People’s Climate Coalition is trying to go viral like the Ice Bucket Challenge did, but with melting instead of freezing. And instead of curing a disease, the group is aiming to cure the planet of climate change by ...

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An Ogden native, whose first trip to the Rochester Museum and Science Center was so impactful that she went on to earn a degree in space sciences, has been selected as RMSC’s next president and CEO. When Hillary Olson was ...

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Rochester’s Strasenburgh Planetarium will have a new look next year, when renovations are completed on the 50-year-old Star Theater. Rochester Museum & Science Center will close the planetarium on Sept. 4 for extensive renovations that include a state-of-the-art full-dome projection ...

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Rochester Museum & Science Center President and CEO Kate Bennett plans to retire following more than two decades at the helm of the East Avenue museum and planetarium. Bennett will continue at the museum for an unspecified time to ensure ...

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