The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History invites the community to celebrate National Chemistry Week by learning about the healing power of chemistry. This year’s Chemistry Week theme is “Health + Medicine!”

Chemistry plays a crucial role in formulating the medicines we take when we get sick, developing the vaccinations we roll our sleeves up for, and testing the blood samples that we provide at our doctors’ offices.

The theme recognizes the tremendous advances made by medical professionals and scientists with inspiration from ancient peoples’ habits, from plants and animals in the wild, and from our own bodies’ mechanisms to prevent, fight, heal, and restore us to health.