The California Science Center offers many options for family-friendly fun and learning throughout the summer, with free general admission, multiple IMAX movies, and new and returning exhibitions. Selected highlights include:
GAME ON! Science, Sports & Play: FREE
Brand new GAME ON! Science, Sports & Play highlights the powerful connection between science, sports and play through a multitude of interactive experiences that help visitors to understand the scientific principles behind sports, empowering athletes at all levels to improve performance, prioritize wellness and play safer.
The exhibition has over 25 interactive experiences offering hands-on activities and virtual guidance via video from a well-loved team of Los Angeles-based mentor athletes. Interactive activities available include: baseball hitting, softball reaction times, basketball shooting and dribbling, soccer, yoga, dance, swimming, and board sports, among others.
Dogs! A Science Tail: FREE
Returning to the California Science Center for a limited engagement before the next stop on its international tour, this popular exhibition explores the bond between humans and dogs. Through immersive, multisensory and highly interactive experiences, guests will learn first-hand the extraordinary way that dogs see, hear and smell the world.
Ecosystems: FREE, highlights include:
- The giant Kelp Forest where guests can join a Q&A session with a diver to learn more about these underwater forests and the animals that live there.
- The Rocky Shore includes a touch tank where visitors discover how sea life survive harsh conditions and can touch a creature or two.
- The Desert with live animals including desert tortoises, scorpions, fennec foxes, among others.
Additional zones in the Ecosystems gallery include Poles, Deep-Sea Vents, Island Zone, River Zone, L.A. Zone, and Global Zone – all with interactive elements to explore.
World of Life: FREE, includes:
- Life! Beginnings with hands-on exhibits showing how living things grow, develop, and survive.
- Bodyworks Theater where guests meet Tess, the 50-foot human body simulator in a show full of animatronics, animation, and special effects.
Fire! Science & Safety: FREE, includes:
- Guests can explore how to make families, pets and homes safer from fire and burn hazards.
- Hands-on interactives to investigate the science of fire and learn how to prevent or stop fire and burns, including practicing fire fighting skills with a fire extinguisher and kitchen safety tips among others.
Goose Bumps! The Science of Fear: FREE, includes:
- An exploration of the universal emotion that can save lives through fun, interactive challenges where guests can experience common fears (such as animals, electric shock, loud noises, and falling) in a safe environment and discover the science behind our physical and emotional responses.
Endeavour Together: Parts and People: FREE, includes:
- While Space Shuttle Endeavour is off exhibit during the construction of its new home, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, guests can explore artifacts from Endeavour and the external tank.
- Endeavour Together celebrates the space shuttle program and the people who helped make it possible, highlighting the strong ties to California, including a dramatic video showing Endeavour’s move across Los Angeles among other images and videos.
AT HOME
If you can’t join us in person this summer, there are FREE virtual field trips for K-5th grade found on the website here; and a guide to science activities that can be safely performed at home, here.
IMAX
There are four movies currently available in the IMAX Theater for a fee. Now showing on our 7-story screen are: Superhuman Body 3D, a journey into the world of medical marvels and an exploration into the extraordinary ways our bodies work; Blue Whales 3D, which takes viewers on a journey to learn about the largest animal ever to have lived; The Blue Angels 3D, featuring never-before-seen footage that chronicles a year with the Navy’s elite Flight Demonstration Squadron; and Antarctica 3D, which takes audiences to the farthest reaches of this wild and majestic continent. It is the coldest, driest and windiest place on Earth with the roughest oceans and yet, weird and wonderful creatures thrive here in astounding abundance.
SHOP
The ExploraStore, located on the main floor of the Science Center, offers a wide range of gifts to suit every budget and every explorer. Some of the more popular items this year include a special collection of Dogs! exhibit-themed merchandise that includes adult and youth apparel, as well as Husky, German Shepherd and Golden Lab plushies alongside other unique toys. The ExploraStore also offers the convenience to purchase items online here. All proceeds from the store go to support the California Science Center Foundation, a Non-Profit California Corporation.
For additional experiences and further information visit the website at www.californiasciencecenter.org
Credit: California Science Center.
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