Mental Health: Mind Matters Exhibit at MOS
| Venue: | Museum of Science, Boston |
| Hours: | 9:00am - 5:00pm |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $$ see below |
| Category: | Exhibits |
Temporary Exhibit : Open Through January 22, 2023
Good mental health is an important aspect of everyone’s life. Like physical illness, mental illness is not a ‘choice’ or a personal flaw but a medical condition that requires care. Yet misunderstanding often leads to lack of treatment and needless suffering, making it a personal, social, and economic issue.
Mental Health: Mind Matters, the Museum’s newest special exhibition, provides a safe space for important conversations about mental illnesses through four key themes.
Interactive Learning
Interactive devices highlight how mental illnesses are similar to other illnesses: they are common, they can happen to anyone, and they are treatable.
Peer into toy theater sets depicting how attitudes toward people with mental illnesses have varied over time, see how treatments continue to evolve, and test your knowledge of common misperceptions.
Empathy Building
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Hear from people—in their own words—as they share how mental illness affects them. Try to answer some simple questions while hearing voices.
Play games designed to improve attention, concentration, and short-term memory — similar to the exercises some people with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia may do as part of their therapy.
Understanding Emotions
Identifying and expressing emotions helps us better understand others and ourselves. Guess the emotions displayed on others’ faces; match your body language with oversized masks; and discover how artistic activities like painting, dancing, and writing can help us identify and express our emotions and strengthen our mental health.
Dance like popcorn! Paint with water and watch your artwork disappear as it dries. Or, write down and shred your worries in the Worry Shredder.
Support System
It’s important to ask for help, and to be supportive of those who do. A resource center highlights the many different types of health care professionals that can offer help for mental health concerns, and interactives challenge us to think about how to use more supportive language when talking about mental illnesses.
| COST | ↑ top |
Adult $29 Child (3-11) $24 Child (Under 3) Free Senior (60+) $25 Members, all ages Free
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.mos.org/exhibits/mind-matters
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1 Science Park, Boston, MA, 02117 map
Phone: 617-723-2500
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