Just before the weekend, Union Station Kansas City announced its next major exhibition: The Science of Guinness World Records.
The traveling exhibition, which will center on world records and how people set them, opens on March 8. It will overtake the massive Bank of America Gallery, most recently home to Disney100: The Exhibition.
One of the companies behind the exhibition is Ripley Entertainment Inc., whose other brands include the Guinness Book of World Records series, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditoriums, and the traveling exhibition The Science of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!.
The exhibition’s six zones will include several interactive elements, says Union Station’s associate vice president of marketing, Lauren Kovarna. Challenges will test factors like memory, reaction time, and physical endurance.
“Guests will create an avatar at the beginning of the exhibition that will track their performances for the various different tests/skills/interactives that are included throughout the zones,” says Kovarna.
Artifacts exclusive to the Kansas City iteration of The Science of Guinness World Records will include microscopic sculptures by Walter Wigan and a 20-foot-long locomotive made of matchsticks.
The exhibition, which ends Sept. 2, will be open Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket prices top out at $17.50 and vary by age.