Exhibits

The WaterShed is the nation’s first Water + Climate Education center. Join us to explore more than 25 exhibits and activities that bring water and climate science to life. The exhibit hall is interactive, multilingual, accessible, free and fun for all ages.  The innovation station has rotating content quarterly. See you at The WaterShed!

The Exhibit Hall

Children dancing in front of an interactive wall projection. The projection shows a mountain scene with falling snow, and silhouettes of the children appear to be in the scene.

Snow Theater

Children interact with an exhibit that shows different types of wildlife found in the Boise River.

Boise River Discovery

Families interact with exhibits inside a large room. The lighting in the room is low, drawing attention to the exhibits.

Watershed Room

Watershed Exhibits Followyourflush

Follow Your Flush

Young children building with LEGO bricks inside exhibit hall.

Innovation Station

A large interactive exhibit projected on a wall.

Sustainable Boise

Visitors touching an interactive wall display.

Pledge Wall

Children explore and interact with the Sustainable Living exhibit, with models of household appliances explaining how to improve sustainability.

Sustainable Living

A child rides a stationary bike in the WaterShed exhibit hall. A large screen is in front of her, with a video that makes it appear to her that she's pedaling through a park.

Bike Exhibit

Watershed Exhibits Grandopeining Changingwatershed Pledgewall

Our Changing Watershed

Children playing together with an interactive sand exhibit.

Augmented Reality Sandbox

A student reading an exhibit.

Flushmapper

Students reading exhibits.

Local Climate Impacts

Child and parent crawling through an artificial tunnel.

Bear Cave

Outdoor Exhibits

Explore outdoor exhibits and public art in the two-acre River Campus surrounding the education center. Kids can splash and play in the simulated Boise River and discover engineering and art activities for the whole family on the nature play trail.

Children playing in The WaterShed's simulated river. Three children in the foreground are arranging rocks to alter the flow of warer.

Simulated Boise River

Concrete sewer pipes arranged into a playable area. The pipes laying form tunnels about three feet high. Several children are climbing through and on top of them.

Sewer Pipe Play Area

A child carefully arranges sticks into a shelter by leaning them against a large branch in an outdoor play area with other sticks and log segments available for use.

Stick Shelter

Children in an outdoor location using giant green foam blocks of various shapes to build structures.

Big Green Blocks