Explosive daily programs.
Experience an explosion. Root for a rat. Connect with cool critters. It all happens in our daily programs. During a Discovery Place live program you never know what will happen. Shows change daily so check This Week at Discovery Place for the latest showtimes.
Featured Show
Sub Zero
Join our resident physicist at the “The Stage” to chill out and explore a world below freezing. With materials so cold they can only be touched with cryogenic gloves, you’re in for an icy treat! Free with Museum admission.
The star of the show is liquid nitrogen – a unique element that’s so cold, when poured out of its tank in a room temperature setting; it turns to gas before even hitting the floor – giving you the chance to frolic in a nitrogen cloud. You’ll watch as it makes a surgical glove as delicate as glass, takes the bounce out of a bouncy ball and causes a penny to shatter with one strike of a hammer.
Did you know that 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere is composed of nitrogen?
Learn more frosty facts about this important element at “Sub Zero”.
Featured Show
A World Apart
Learn about the tropical rainforest ecosystem and the species that call it home during “A World Apart”. Free with Museum admission.
Get acquainted with a variety of species that call the rainforest habitat home and explore the unique features that help them thrive in this one-of-a-kind environment. Keep your eye out for the ball python, a constrictor that uses its 200 vertebra to twist and turn around the rainforest exhibit. You also could meet an iguana hailing from Central and South America that uses its third eye to sense the presence of predators – and friendly Museum visitors.
Did you know there are millions of species yet to be discovered and identified in tropical rainforests all over the world?
Step in to a world where the seasons change from hot to hotter, frogs roam freely and a 20-year old blue and gold macaw looks on as you experience the wonders of the tropical rainforest.
Featured Show
What’s Glowing On?
Grab a seat at “The Stage” and discover the science behind luminescent and incandescent light. By the time the show is over, you’ll be an expert on all that shines.
Put yourself in the spotlight as a contestant in the “Will it Glow?” game show, hosted by one of the Museum's brightest scientists. Explore the materials that make things glow and take a closer look at items such as the artwork of Vincent Van ‘Glow’ to watch them shine. The show does 'lights out' with a BANG! -- get a front row seat to the explosive qualities of light.
Did you know that using luminescent lights in your house can help save energy and money?
Learn about the amazing qualities of light and how it impacts the world around us at “What’s Glowing On?” Free with Museum admission.
Shows
Dive into an exploration of the world's oceans and learn about our amazing underwater world.
Gather at the... Learn More
Learn more about the lives of some of the Museum's fascinating animal residents Learn More
Meet the letter of the week, and explore wonders from A to Z. Learn More
Play smart and build toward victory during our Project Build game show. Learn More
Learn the limits of human endurance through the legacy
of George Mallory and the ice mummies of Mount Everest. Learn More
Follow along as our live care specialists feed some of our favorite water-dwelling residents.
The tour lasts... Learn More
Oxygen, heat and fuel form the fire triangle! Join us for some explosively fun experiments. Learn More
