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The Museum of Broadway has arrived. Founded by entrepreneur and two-time Tony Award-winning producer Julie Boardman, this unique museum is an immersive and interactive theatrical experience devoted to musicals, plays, and the people who create them. Featuring the work of dozens of designers, artists, and theatre historians, this one-of-a-kind Museum takes visitors on a journey along the timeline of Broadway, from its birth to present day. Head to themuseumofbroadway.com for more information.

In Lowell, Massachusetts, you’ll find a national historical park dating back to 1835, filled with history, engineering and innovation. The star is the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, which played a large part in the Industrial Revolution. The story of Boott—the most architecturally significant of the surviving mill complexes— parallels the city’s rise, decline and rebirth. Now a museum, the mills feature a dramatic 1920s weave room exhibit with 88 operating power looms weaving cotton cloth. Visit nps.gov/lowe for more.

Opening February 17, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation is going to bring some big changes to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This center includes new exhibition and learning spaces with state-of-the-art technology showing the museum is looking both forward to the future and back on history. Be transported into nature’s hidden realms in Invisible Worlds, a unique immersive experience that illustrates how all life is connected. Explore scientific collections like never before, in floor-toceiling displays over three floors. Visit the new insectarium, a gallery devoted to Earth’s most diverse animal group, and home of the largest leafcutter ant colony in the US. Learn more at amnh.org.

Mystic River Falls, with “The Tallest Drop on a Water Raft Ride in the Western Hemisphere,” is the newest thrill at award-winning theme park Silver Dollar City. The water adventure includes winding, roaring rapids set in an authentic Ozarks mountainous river theme, culminating with a waterfall drop that sends riders down more than four stories of splashing, rafting, family fun. See more info at silverdollarcity.com.

Who needs the ocean when you can feel the awesome power of the ocean with Pipeline, the first-ofits-kind surf coaster coming to SeaWorld, the coaster capital of Orlando. Pipeline is a standing coaster where riders hop on a giant board and ride the loops and waves of nearly 3,000 feet of track, with speeds reaching 60 mph and heights reaching 110 feet. Coming this spring, head to seaworld.com to learn more.