Millstone Information and Science Center

278 Main Street, Niantic
(860) 691-4670, (800) 428-4234

Admission: Free!  

Is there a budding scientist or engineer in your family?  Are your children learning about nuclear energy and the production of electricity in school?  This may be just the place for your curious youngster!

A visit to the Information and Science Center will teach you and your children about nuclear power, radiation, energy, radioactive waste and medical uses of radiation.  Interactive displays are easy to manipulate and understand as well as fun to use.   

Children can see the live marine aquaria, enjoy self-selected multi-media shows, view a stereographic hologram, and use a real Geiger counter.  Children will have fun interacting with the displays and learn a great deal at the same time!

Developmental Hints:

• Exhibits that can be touched and explored will hold a child’s interest longer.

• Six to eight-year olds are in what is known as the “concrete-operational” stage.  In simpler terms, this means that they are able to assimilate and accommodate new information.  New skills may include:

  • Reversibility – knowing that one operation can undo another (like subtraction).

  • Conservation – realizing that the amount of water does not change whether it is in a short fat glass or a tall thin one.

  • Concepts such as numbers and time.