Discovery Place New Operating Hours

February 25, 2009

Beginning Monday, March 2, Discovery Place will be open:
- Monday — Friday: 9:30 a.m. — 4 p.m.
- Saturday: 10 a.m. — 6 p.m.
- Sunday: noon — 5 p.m.

The Museum’s Tryon Street entrance will be closed Monday — Friday. During weekdays, guests can access the building through the Museum’s entrances at the corner of 6th and Church Streets and Level 3 which is accessible through the Museum’s parking garage.

Currently undergoing a $31.6 million renovation, Discovery Place is an ever-changing science and technology museum featuring hundreds of interactive exhibits where guests can peer through the treetops in a tropical rainforest; watch a rat play basketball or visit The Charlotte Observer IMAX® Dome Theatre and become immersed in nature with Discovery Films or feel the excitement of the latest Full-length Feature Films on the largest dome screen in the Carolinas.

Visitors also can step right up and take the spotlight in Circus! the Museum’s current exhibition. Featuring more than 20 multi-station, interactive exhibits that amaze, thrill, perplex and entertain, Circus! offers visitors an opportunity to discover the secrets of science under the big top. Circus! is on exhibition through Friday, July 3 and is free with Museum admission.

Discovery Place is located in uptown Charlotte at 301 N. Tryon Street. Convenient parking is available in the Museum’s parking garage — the Carol Grotnes Belk Complex — at the corner of Sixth and Church Streets. For more information about Discovery Place, guests should call 704-372-6261 or visit discoveryplace.org.

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