DIY meets DISCOVERY! Opening Saturday, February 16th Come visit our new and innovative makerspace, DISCOVERY Lab! Our makerspace offers a unique learning environment and workspace designed to stimulate exploration, creativity, risk-taking, critical thinking, and collaboration through a hands-on approach. DISCOVERY Lab encourages all visitors to dive into the design thinking process without fear of failure – […]
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Blast off to a world where science fiction meets science fact. How close are we to discovering new alien worlds and alien life? What are the differences between Androids and Robots? What inspires scientists, writers and filmmakers? What do we hope CURIOSITY will find on Mars? The nine interactive areas that can be found in […]
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Created by the renowned Scitech in Perth, Australia, and based around a James Bond-style fantasy of exotic locations, high-tech equipment and, of course, a mystery to solve, Top Secret: License to Spy focuses on the science and technology of spying and espionage. On arrival at the exhibition, the visitor is presented with a scenario and six suspects. […]
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DISCOVERY welcomes Sid the Science Kid from September 22, 2018 – January 21, 2019! Sid the Science Kid – The Super-Duper Exhibit! Encourages kids to think, talk and work the way scientists do by building on children’s natural curiosity about the world. This new exhibit brings the PBS KIDS TV show Sid the Science Kid to life […]
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WOW! The Summit is a 70-foot tower that encompasses 2,200 square feet and ascends all three floors of the museum and pinches through the roof. Featuring interactive science exhibits as well as sliding and climbing structures, the Summit is an experience that is both intellectually as well as physically engaging for visitors. On each of […]
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IMAGINATION REIGNS IN FANTASY FESTIVAL! This gallery combines a life size ship, castle and stage to inspire new heights of creative play, dramatic exploration and collaboration. In Discovery Castle, visitors enter the medieval era and become queens, jesters, princes, kings, princesses or other members of the royal community. Guests in the castle’s throne room can […]
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ECO CITY IS A METROPOLITAN AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CITY FILLED WITH FAMILIAR BUILDINGS AND BUSINESSES. Welcome to the RAIDERS! Children can “build” the new stadium and learn about the Raiders’ sustainability efforts. In 2016, the Sunrise Children’s Hospital exhibit opened in ECO City. We are excited to bring this new “business” to our visitors for […]
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PATENTS PENDING IS AN ENVIRONMENT DEVOTED TO EXPERIMENTATION, CURIOSITY, INVENTION, PROBLEM-SOLVING AND TINKERING. It’s a lively, eclectic laboratory environment where visitors encounter design and engineering challenges and then work to create and test their ideas. Using large-scale testing stations, visitors evaluate the performance and durability of their inventions. Some stations, such as Drop Zone, Air […]
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TODDLER TOWN IS A DESERT-THEMED EXHIBITION SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR OUR YOUNGEST VISITORS – LITTLE LEARNERS! For babies through kids under five years old (and their accompanying adults), children get the experience of being a miner for-a-day, by loading “rocks” and “boulders” into an overhead bucket system, discovering Nevada’s animals, and pretending to be train engineers. […]
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WATER IS POWER AND WATER WORLD CELEBRATES WATER – ITS MOVEMENT AND POWER, THE COURSES IT FINDS, AND THE WAYS IT INTERACTS WITH OBJECTS IT ENCOUNTERS AS IT FLOWS AND FALLS. Visitors play and work with water in a variety of hands-on ways: launching balls into winding tracks, guiding boats through a lock system, fitting […]
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