Galleries
The Michigan Science Center is home to over 220 hands-on exhibits related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Stop by any of our exhibit galleries or join our museum staff at one of our open demonstration spaces to bring your classroom learning to life!
Kids Town
Kids Town is back! Bring your young scientists (ages 5 and under) and explore the best of Mi-Sci’s past, present, and future:
- Interactive sports arena for active fun
- Market, cafe, and vet clinic for imaginative play
- Mini Level Up Arcade designed for children and grown-ups to engage in digital and analog games
- STEAM lab to tinker, build, and explore
- Theater with interactive lighting and costumes for STEM-based career dramatic play
- Scibarium — a digital library with sensory-friendly spaces
- And yes, the beloved water feature is back!
Please note: Kids Town will be closed daily from 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM so we can give the space a little TLC (tender loving cleaning)!
Space Gallery
Marvel at the wonders of the universe as you explore the history of human space travel, learn about rocket technology, tour the galaxy, travel to the sun and more.
Sun, Earth, Universe , an interactive exhibition developed by the NISE Network, is an engaging and interactive museum exhibition about Earth and space science for family audiences.
Build a Human Habitat on Mars is a hands-on exhibit designed to inspire, engage, and educate the next generation of explorers about human exploration on Mars.
Smithsonian Spark!Lab
Health Gallery
Discover the importance of good nutrition and fitness, uncover the hidden factors that affect your health both now and in the future, and learn how to make smart choices to improve your health.
Snap a selfie with the life size couch potatoes or crawl in to experience what it’s like inside an MRI machine.
Motion Gallery
Tinker with the fundamental properties of matter and energy using circuits, electrical loads, magnetic fields, simple machines, light, and more.
Experience science on a large scale, witnessing the Earth’s rotation at the three-story Faucault pendulum or test your strength lifting 1,000 pounds with the giant lever.
Math Mountain
Can you make it up Math Mountain? Try your skills at addition and subtraction as well as multiplication and division and discover how many zeros are in a googol.
Roads, Bridges, Tunnels
Become an engineer as you walk our 80-foot-long Mini Mac Bridge, travel our roundabout, and explore the Asphalt Plant.
An example of science right here in metro Detroit, the Fatberg exhibit reveals what happens when the wrong things are flushed down the drain.
STEM Playground
Stop by the STEM Playground to learn about the forces acting on an airplane, how to position a sail to be able to travel into the wind, how engineers design everything around us, and the importance of planning and foundation when building.
Kids Town
Kids Town features engaging activity areas in a child-scaled “town” just for guests ages two to five, allowing them to develop social and motor skills while exploring basic science concepts.
Waves and Vibrations
From the walk-in kaleidoscope to lasers, this is the gallery to experiment with sounds, colors, reflection, waves, and more.
Earth. Wind. Weather. sponsored by General Motors, features 10 new interactive exhibits that put guests in control of some of nature’s most powerful and impressive phenomena. Create avalanches and geysers, explore Jupiter’s otherworldly atmosphere, command ocean waves, step into a powerful tornado, transform desert landscapes, and more with this immersive new experience!
Earth. Wind. Weather. is included in the price of general admission and is a part of MiSci’s new virtual field trip program.
This experience will help learners of all ages understand how STEM concepts shape their world, as well as highlighting potential future careers. Relevant STEM learning, including engaging with real world phenomena like weather and climate, helps students connect more deeply with underlying science content and relate those connections to the world at large.
Earth. Wind. Weather is brought to you by General Motors with additional support from the Zatkoff Family Legacy Fund, Harman International, and PLEX Systems Inc.