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Los Angeles Map: California Science CenterCalifornia Science Center Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Hours Daily 10am-5pm
Address 700 State Dr
Location Exposition Park, Downtown
Phone 323/724-3623, 213/744-7400 IMAX theater
Web site www.casciencectr.org
Prices Free admission to the museum; IMAX theater $8 adults, $5.75 seniors over 60 and children ages 13-17, $4.75 ages 4-12. Multishow discounts available
Season Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day
Other Parking $6

Frommer's Review

A $130-million renovation -- reinvention, actually -- has turned the former Museum of Science and Industry into Exposition Park's most popular attraction. Using high-tech sleight of hand, the center stimulates kids of all ages with questions, answers, and lessons about the world. The museum is organized into themed worlds, and one of the museum's highlights is Tess, a 50-foot animatronic woman whose muscles, bones, organs, and blood vessels are revealed, demonstrating how the body reacts to a variety of external conditions and activities. (Appropriate for children of all ages, Tess doesn't possess reproductive organs.) Another highlight is the Air and Space Gallery, a seven-story space where real air- and spacecraft are suspended overhead.

There are nominal fees, ranging from $2 to $5, to enjoy the science center's more thrilling attractions. You can pedal a bicycle across a high-wire suspended 43 feet above the ground (demonstrating the principle of gravity and counterweights) or get strapped into the Space Docking Simulator for a virtual-reality taste of zero gravity. There's plenty more, and plans for expansion are always in the works. The IMAX theater screen is seven stories high and 90 feet wide, with state-of-the-art surround-sound and 3-D technology. Films are screened throughout the day until 9pm and are nearly always breathtaking, even the two-dimensional ones.

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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