Science Centers
Science Centers are a fantastic way to introduce your child to the wonders of our universe.
Learn about motion, physics, chemistry, geology, mathematics, and all the wonders of the universe.
Below you’ll find information on some of the better-known Science Centers in the USA.
Here's How it Works!
Select the State you live in or are about to visit. Look for a Science Center in a city or neighborhood in your area. Click on that link to visit the official website for that Center. Here you’ll find the Science Center’s address, directions, hours of operation, ticket prices, contact information, parking instructions, and more.
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Anniston Museums and Gardens (Anniston)
Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts (Gadsden)
U.S. Space & Rocket Center (Huntsville)
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center (Anchorage)
Arizona Science Center (Phoenix)
Children’s Museum Tucson (Tucson)
Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium (Tucson)
International Wildlife Museum (Tucson)
Kitt Peak National Observatory Visitor Center (56 miles southwest of Tucson)
Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff)
Science Vortex of the Verde Valley (Cottonwood)
Mid-America Science Museum (Hot Springs)
Museum of Discovery (Little Rock)
Scott Family Amazeum (Bentonville)
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
California Science Center (Los Angeles)
Chabot Space & Science Center (Oakland)
Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (San Jose)
Columbia Memorial Space Center (Downey)
CuriOdyssey (San Mateo)
Discovery Cube (Santa Ana)
Explorit Science Center (Davis)
Fleet Science Center (San Diego)
Gateway Science Museum (Chico)
Lick Observatory (Mt Hamilton)
Maturango Museum of the Indian Wells Valley (Ridgecrest)
MOXI The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation (Santa Barbara)
Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)
Placer Nature Center (Auburn)
Roseville Utility Exploration Center (Roseville)
San Diego Natural History Museum (San Diego)
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (Santa Barbara)
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History (Santa Cruz)
SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity – MOSAC (Sacramento)
The Lawrence Hall of Science (Berkeley)
The Tech Interactive (San Jose)
Western Science Center (Hemet)
Fiske Planetarium and Science Center (Boulder)
Fort Collins Museum of Discovery (Fort Collins)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder)
The Powerhouse Science Center (Durango)
Wings Over the Rockies (Denver)
Bruce Museum (Greenwich)
Connecticut Science Center (Hartford)
Stepping Stones Museum for Children (Norwalk)
The Children’s Museum (West Hartford)
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (New Haven)
Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee (Tallahassee)
Discovery Center (Ocala)
Emerald Coast Science Center (Fort Walton Beach)
Florida Museum of Natural History (Gainesville)
Glazer Children’s Museum (Tampa)
Great Explorations Children’s Museum (Saint Petersburg)
IMAG History & Science Center (Fort Myers)
Loggerhead Marinelife Center (Juno Beach)
MOSI – Museum of Science & Industry (Tampa)
Museum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach)
Museum of Discovery and Science (Fort Lauderdale)
Museum of Science & History of Jacksonville (Jacksonville)
Orlando Science Center (Orlando)
Pensacola MESS Hall (Pensacola)
Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science (Miami)
Science and Discovery Center of Northwest Florida (Panama City)
South Florida Science Center and Aquarium (West Palm Beach)
The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature (Bradenton)
Burpee Museum of Natural History (Rockford)
Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College (River Grove)
Children’s Discovery Museum (Normal)
Children’s Museum of Illinois (Decatur)
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
Peoria PlayHouse Children’s Museum (Peoria)
The Adler Planetarium (Chicago)
Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County (Crawfordsville)
Imagination Station (Lafayette)
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites (Indianapolis)
Minnetrista Museum & Gardens (Muncie)
Science Central (Fort Wayne)
Terre Haute Children’s Museum (Terre Haute)
WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology (Bloomington)
Family Museum (Bettendorf)
Grout Museum District: Bluedorn Science Imaginarium (Waterloo)
LaunchPAD Children’s Museum (Sioux City)
Putnam Museum and Science Center (Davenport)
Science Center of Iowa (Des Moines)
Cosmosphere (Hutchinson)
Exploration Place (Wichita)
Sternberg Museum of Natural History (Hays)
University of Kansas Natural History Museum (Lawrence)
East Kentucky Science Center (Prestonsburg)
Kentucky Science Center (Louisville)
River Discovery Center (Paducah)
The Aviation Museum of Kentucky (Lexington)
The Living Arts & Science Center (Lexington)
Knock Knock Children’s Museum (Baton Rouge)
LIGO Livingston (Livingston)
Louisiana Art & Science Museum (Baton Rouge)
Sci-Port Discovery Center (Shreveport)
L. C. Bates Museum (Hinckley)
Maine Discovery Museum (Bangor)
Owls Head Transportation Museum (Owls Head)
Air Zoo (Portage)
Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art (Midland)
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum (Ann Arbor)
Cranbrook Institute of Science (Bloomfield)
Grand Rapids Public Museum (Grand Rapids)
Impression 5 Science Center (Lansing)
Kingman Museum (Battle Creek)
Michigan Science Center (Detroit)
Sloan and Longway (Burton)
The Henry Ford (Dearborn)
University of Michigan Museum of Natural History (Ann Arbor)
USS Silversides Submarine Museum (Muskegon)
Yankee Air Museum (Belleville)
Bell Museum (Saint Paul)
Duluth Children’s Museum (Duluth)
Headwaters Science Center (Bemidji)
Lake Superior Zoo (Duluth)
Minnesota Children’s Museum (Saint Paul)
Science Museum of Minnesota (Saint Paul)
The Bakken Museum (Minneapolis)
The Works Museum (Bloomington)
Discovery Center of Springfield (Springfield)
Saint Louis Science Center (Saint Louis)
Science City at Union Station (Kansas City)
American Computer & Robotics Museum (Bozeman)
ExplorationWorks (Helena)
Montana Natural History Center (Missoula)
Montana Science Center (Bozeman)
spectrUM Discovery Area (Missoula)
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (Concord)
Mount Washington Observatory (North Conway)
SEE Science Center (Manchester)
Bradbury Science Museum (Los Alamos)
Explora (Albuquerque)
Farmington Museum (Farmington)
Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science (Las Cruces)
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (Albuquerque)
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (Albuquerque)
The New Mexico Museum of Space History (Alamogordo)
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Buffalo Museum of Science (Buffalo)
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (New York)
Kopernik Observatory & Science Center (Vestal)
Long Island Children’s Museum (Garden City)
Long Island Explorium (Port Jefferson)
MICRO (Brooklyn)
Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum (Poughkeepsie)
Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology – MOST (Syracuse)
miSci – Museum of Innovation and Science (Schenectady)
Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca)
National Museum of Mathematics – MoMath (New York)
Roberson Museum and Science Center (Binghamton)
Rochester Museum & Science Center (Rochester)
Sci-Tech Museum (Watertown)
Sciencenter (Ithaca)
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (Shoreham)
The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning)
The Wild Center (Tupper Lake)
Wings of Eagles Discovery Center (Horseheads)
Cape Fear Museum of History and Science (Wilmington)
Catawba Science Center (Hickory)
Children’s Museum & Science Center, Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences (Rocky Mount)
Discovery Place (Charlotte)
Greensboro Science Center (Greensboro)
Kaleideum North (Winston Salem)
Marbles Kids Museum (Raleigh)
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center (Chapel Hill)
Museum of Life and Science (Durham)
North Carolina Transportation Museum Foundation (Spencer)
Port Discover: Northeastern North Carolina’s Center for Hands-On Science (Elizabeth City)
Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium (Gastonia)
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery (Dayton)
Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Cleveland)
COSI (Columbus)
Great Lakes Science Center (Cleveland)
Imagination Station, Toledo (Toledo)
McKinley Presidential Library & Museum (Canton)
The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology (Newark)
Eugene Science Center (Eugene)
Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (McMinnville)
Gilbert House Children’s Museum (Salem)
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland)
ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum (Ashland)
Sunriver Nature Center (Sunriver)
Carnegie Science Center (Pittsburgh)
Dino Don, Inc. (Media)
Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania (State College)
Lancaster Science Factory (Lancaster)
Moonshot Museum (Pittsburgh)
North Museum of Nature and Science (Lancaster)
Nurture Nature Center (Easton)
Reading Public Museum (Reading)
Reading Science Center (Reading)
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (Philadelphia)
The Franklin Institute (Philadelphia)
The State Museum of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg)
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts (Harrisburg)
Roper Mountain Science Center (Greenville)
Adventure Science Center (Nashville)
Discovery Center at Murfree Spring (Murfreesboro)
Discovery Park of America (Union City)
Hands On! Discovery Center (Gray)
Hands-On Science Center (Tullahoma)
Muse Knoxville (Knoxville)
Children’s Museum of Houston (Houston)
Don Harrington Discovery Center (Amarillo)
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (Fort Worth)
Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary (McKinney)
Longview World of Wonders (Longview)
Mayborn Museum Complex, Baylor University (Waco)
Perot Museum of Nature and Science (Dallas)
Sci-Tech Discovery Center (Frisco)
Science Mill (Johnson City)
Science Spectrum (Lubbock)
Space Center Houston (Houston)
The Children’s Museum of the Brazos Valley (Bryan)
Thinkery (Austin)
Witte Museum (San Antonio)
Clark Planetarium (Salt Lake City)
Hutchings Museum (Lehi)
Natural History Museum of Utah (Salt Lake City)
The Leonardo (Salt Lake City)
ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain (Burlington)
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium (St Johnsbury)
Montshire Museum of Science (Norwich)
Amazement Square (Lynchburg)
Children’s Museum of Virginia (Portsmouth)
Children’s Science Center (Fairfax)
Science Museum of Virginia (Richmond)
Virginia Air and Space Science Center (Hampton)
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center (Virginia Beach)
Virginia Discovery Museum (Charlottesville)
Virginia Living Museum (Newport News)
Virginia Museum of Natural History (Martinsville)
Imagine Children’s Museum (Everett)
KidsQuest Children’s Museum (Bellevue)
Mobius Discovery Center (Spokane)
Pacific Science Center (Seattle)
Palouse Discovery Science Center (Pullman)
The Museum of Flight Foundation (Tukwila)
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia (Charleston)
Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington)
Barlow Planetarium at UWO-Fox Cities (Menasha)
Children’s Museum of Eau Claire (Eau Claire)
Discovery World (Milwaukee)
EAA Aviation Museum (Oshkosh)
Madison Children’s Museum (Madison)
Morgridge Institute for Research (Madison)
National Railroad Museum (Green Bay)
Neville Public Museum (Green Bay)
The Building for Kids (Appleton)
Lander Children’s Museum (Lander)