Small Discoveries
Imagine, experiment and play in this experience platform designed for SCI's youngest explorers.
Our beloved "When Things Get Moving" exhibit is currently undergoing renovations and is closed to the public. This exhibit will reopen to the public on Thursday, October 17, 2024.
Get up close with Iowa’s native animals, explore the cosmos, build a rocket and more in SCI’s permanent exhibits! Each space highlights a specific field of science with fun, hands-on ways for all ages to learn and discover. From box turtles and snakes in What on Earth? to the zipping, zooming Ball Wall in When Things Get Moving, SCI’s permanent exhibits allow you to own the experience!
Imagine, experiment and play in this experience platform designed for SCI's youngest explorers.
Zoology, meteorology and geology converge inside SCI’s Upper Level experience platform What On Earth?
Get physical with science inside SCI’s Upper Level experience platform When Things Get Moving!
Travel through the cosmos, get up close with spacecraft and more in SCI’s Upper Level space science experience platform Why The Sky?
Explore, design, build, experiment, tinker and collaborate in this interactive exhibit space on SCI’s Main Level. Explore the design cycle while you experiment with circuits, create a stop-motion animation video, build and test a flying machine and more!
Spectacular LEGO®-built marvels structures combined with hands-on building challenges bring engineering, architecture and construction to life and encourage creativity.