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Syracuse Attractions
Museum of Science and Technology, Syracuse
A museum that features hand-on exhibits in a broad range of scientific areas, including physics, the universe and space travel, computers and telecommunications, the environment and more. The museum also includes New York State's only IMAX theater.
Attraction type: Science museum
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
Ceramics are one of the specialities at this art museum.
Attraction type: Art museum
Emita II, Syracuse
Attraction type: Tour
Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Syracuse
Attraction type: Zoo
Principal among Syracuse's attractions is the Museum of Science & Technology (MOST), 500 S. Franklin St. (tel. 315/425-0747; www.most.org;), which is located in an old armory and filled on three levels with terrific interactive science exhibits, science demonstrations, simulator rides that will entertain both youngsters and their parents, a cool domed IMAX Theater, and a planetarium. It's open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 5pm. Museum-only admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors and children under 12; planetarium admission $1 extra; combination IMAX/museum ticket, $9.75 adults, $7.75 seniors and children under 12. For IMAX show times and tickets, call tel. 315/473-IMAX.
The Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Blvd. East (Rte. 5) at Montgomery Street (tel. 315/471-0593; www.eriecanalmuseum.org; Tues-Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 10am-3pm; free admission) is in the original 1850 weighlock building designed to determine tolls for boats on the canal. It may not be the most exciting museum you've ever visited, but it makes for an interesting historical stop, depicting as it does six vignettes of 19th-century life along the canal. The Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St. (tel. 315/474-6064; www.everson.org; Tues-Fri noon-5pm, Sat-Sun 10am-5pm), was the first building designed by noted architect I. M. Pei. It contains a superb collection of American ceramics. Architecture buffs may want to go from Everson to one of the finest Art Deco buildings in Syracuse, the Niagara-Mohawk building on N. Franklin Street, a miniature Chrysler building that's illuminated at night.
Visiting a bakery might not like much of an attraction, but the Columbus Baking Company, 502 Pearl St. (tel. 315/422-2913), is an old-style, family-owned and -operated Italian bakery that makes only four types of artisanal, traditional Italian bread (with no preservatives), as it has for over a century. The deep, old-school ovens are right out of Moonstruck.
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