Interactive science museum featuring hands-on exhibits, space artifacts, ecosystems displays, and immersive IMAX films designed to inspire learning and exploration.
General Information
IMAX movies: approximately $11–$20
Special exhibits: additional cost
Parking: about $20 per vehicle
How to Get There
From Los Angeles: Take I-110 S toward San Pedro, exit at Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, turn left onto MLK Blvd, then turn right onto Figueroa St and follow signs into Exposition Park to reach the entrance.
Overview
The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, next to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the University of Southern California. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California Science Center is a public-private partnership between the State of California and the California Science Center Foundation. The California Natural Resources Agency oversees the California Science Center and the California African American Museum. Founded in 1951 as the "California Museum of Science and Industry", the Museum was remodeled and renamed in 1998 as the "California Science Center".
Admission includes access to the permanent exhibits, such as the Space Shuttle Endeavour and other prominent aircraft and spacecraft, and to various demonstrations. A separate ticket is required for the IMAX movies, most special traveling exhibitions, and special activities that include a climbing wall, motion simulator, and a high-wire bicycle.
Ecosystems
The two-story, 45,000-square-foot exhibit features display zones with live animals and aquariums about wildlife and adaptation in different ecosystems, including a river, desert, polar region, deep sea, ocean, island and urban areas, as well as the entire planet Earth.
An area with hands-on activities and exhibits that explore innovation and invention, with themes involving construction, energy and transportation.
Examines the processes of life and similarities among organisms, including food, body organs like the heart and brain, senses, defenses against threats, how living things reproduce which includes a hatching chick display, DNA, and microscopic organisms.
- The Gemini 11 space capsule, flown in 1966
- Mercury-Redstone 2 capsule which carried Ham the Chimp, the first hominid in space (1961)
- Gemini 11 capsule, flown by Pete Conrad and Richard F. Gordon Jr. in 1966
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Command Module from the 1975 mission
- Space Shuttle Endeavour in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion
- Space Shuttle external tank immediately outside the Oschin Pavilion
- SKETCH Foundation Gallery in Science Court - exhibits about the Solar System, space travel and aviation, displays of historic aircraft, space vehicles and equipment, and space telescopes
- Douglas DC-8 jetliner
- Lockheed F-104D Starfighter
- Lockheed A-12 Blackbird two-seater trainer, Serial Number 60-6927
- Replica Bell X-1 (movie prop from The Right Stuff)
- 1902 Wright Glider replica
- 1929 Velie Monocoupe
- Northrop T-38 Talon Jet Trainer, Serial Number 58-1196
- Northrop F-20 Tigershark
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A Hornet Serial Number 161725
- Engineering prototype for Viking Lander
- Cassini-Huygens planetary probe (replica)
- Pioneer 10 planetary probe (replica)
- Mariner IV planetary probe (replica)
- Pioneer-Venus planetary probe (replica)
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