California Science Center

Museum Los Angeles, California, United States

What to expect

The California Science Center is a science museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, next to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the University of Southern California. The museum includes many exhibits of aircraft and spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle Endeavour, multiple hands-on galleries, special exhibitions, and IMAX movies. It is billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center and is a public-private partnership between the State of California and the California Science Center Foundation. The museum has a history dating back to 1912 and has undergone several transformations over the years, including being renamed in 1998 as the California Science Center

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This family's experience:

Activities: We visited the California Science Center, seeing the Space Shuttle Endeavour and exploring the interactive exhibits

Highlights: The kids were fascinated by the Space Shuttle, and we all enjoyed the museum's hands-on exhibits ✨

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This family's experience:

Activities: We visited the California Science Center and saw Space Shuttle Endeavour

Highlights: The kids were excited to see the space shuttle and enjoyed exploring the science museum ✨

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This family's experience:

Activities: We visited the museum and explored the exhibits and activities

Highlights: The kids enjoyed the hands-on activities and we all loved the IMAX theater ✨

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This family's experience:

Activities: We found out what single-celled bacterium have in common with 100-trillion-celled human being; we found out how people employ technology to meet their needs and how man explores the universe

Highlights: It’s also one of only four institutions in the U.S. to house a Space Shuttle Orbiter ✨

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This family's experience:

Activities: We visited the California Science Center and witnessed the shiny objects in different giant discovery rooms and child-friendly science experiments

Highlights: The kids enjoyed the hands-on environment and the street vendors in the garden, where we could buy refreshing cold ice cream after exploring the center and museums ✨