WORCESTER, Mass. - The Ecotarium in Worcester offered free admission Monday for people to view the eclipse. 

Hundreds of people gathered at the museum of science and nature. 

They had seven different telescopes on their Sun Dial Plaza. 

Guests could also build their own solar systems, watch a special presentation, or check out NASA's live stream at the planetarium.  

"It's amazing, it shows the power of God really when you think about it" said Dorothy Pearson. "The moon being in front of the sun, that's amazing, when you think of the power that has to go behind that."

"This is my first time seeing one lately," said Sian Nissam. "It's very exciting, at first it kind of looked like Pacman and now it's turning more like a banana in the sky. The fun part is that it's very cool that these glasses black out everything else, but the moon and the sun is very easy to spot."

"I have been thrilled to see so many people come through and they're looking at the telescopes and they're like oh my gosh this is so cool" said Joann Adams, museum educator at the Ecotarium. "So lots of people we helped to pique their interest in science and hopefully give them something to think about and maybe something else to explore while they're here."

The Ecotarium also offered glasses on a first come first serve basis and a lesson on how to make a pinhole project to watch the eclipse through.