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California Science Center Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

700 Exposition Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA

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Hours Daily 10am-5pm
Location Downtown
Phone 323/724-3623, 213/744-7400 (IMAX theater)
Web site www.californiasciencecenter.org
Prices Free admission to museum; IMAX theater $8.25 adults; $6 seniors 60 and over, students 13-17, and college students with valid ID; $5 children 3-12. Multishow and group discounts available
Closed Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
Other Parking $8

Review of California Science Center

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. Ecosystems is the newest permanent exhibition wing; in it the Earth's various environments can be explored through live habitats and hands-on technology.

Visitors must pay 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. 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 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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