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	The Living Heart cardiovascular images by Alexander Tsiaras Now Open Through March 5, 2006 While poets and authors have written volumes about the beauty and mystery of the heart, scientists and doctors have studied and devised new techniques to prevent, identify, treat and cure heart disease.
	Now Open! The U-505 Submarine resurfaces in a new 35,000-square-foot interactive exhibit that immerses guests in the sub’s compelling tale through dramatic representations, interactive challenges, nearly 200 artifacts and testimony from veterans who captured the German U-boat.
	The Great Train Story replaces the Museum’s 60-year-old model railroad exhibit and boasts a 3,500 square foot layout, which depicts the railroad’s winding journey between Chicago and Seattle, passing through the Midwest, the Plains States, the Rockies, the Cascades, and into the Pacific Northwest. Along the way, trains are involved in industries as diverse as grain commodities, raw materials for manufacturing, consumer goods for import and export, lumber, apples, and tourism.
	OMNIMAX Glide side by side with a graceful giant manta ray as it arches and swoops through water sparkling under the hot Baja California sun. Witness the pageant of migrating whales, the elaborate tango of courting terns, the battles of lumbering elephant seals. Fly over sweeping vistas of snow-capped mountains, vast deserts, palm oases, and mangrove swamps – then plunge into astonishing underwater sequences of rarely seen marine life.