Yesterday we visited the Museum of Science & Industry in Tampa, in another attempt to entertain ourselves in the rain. I had high expectations, but it was not nearly as good as the similarly-named museum in Chicago (see my visit there). They had made a serious effort to make many of their exhibits interactive, but at least a third of them were non-functional during our visit. There were not a great variety of exhibits either. It did, however, have one of the traveling Body Worlds exhibitions, which are definitely worth seeing. (I had already done so, but more than half of our party had not and it was not very expensive; this version was very similar to the one I had seen in Baltimore.)
We spent hours between Body Worlds and the normal exhibit on the human body, which took up probably 1/6 of the entire exhibit space, and my wife seemingly enjoyed all of it. Then we got to the small sections on astronomy, aeronautics, magnetism, and the like, and she found this terribly boring. I, of course, was of precisely the opposite opinion. We managed to compromise on a section discussing the deep sea because she could look at the undersea life forms while I studied the construction of submersibles. Not surprisingly, this seemed to fall roughly on gender lines through everyone else as well.
The best part of the visit was a gentleman walking around announcing an upcoming presentation on Tesla coils, which my sister heard as “testicles”.