California Science Center

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The California Science Center (sometimes Sciencenter California ) is an educational institution and a museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. It is called the largest interactive science center of the West Coast. The California Sciencenter is a public- private partnership between the State of California and the California Science Center Foundation. The museum is also part of the Smithsonian Affiliations program.

Originally known as the California Museum of Science and Industry, the Museum was rebuilt and renamed in 1998.

The California Science Center will host the California State Science Fair from.

The end of 2012, the Center received the Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA.

Excerpt from the list of exhibits ( October 2012 )

  • Douglas DC-8 jet aircraft
  • Lockheed F- 104D Starfighter
  • Lockheed A-12 Blackbird Oxcart; two-seat jet trainer; Serial number 60-6927
  • Replica Bell X -1 ( movie prop from the stuff of which heroes are )
  • 1929 Velie Monocoupe
  • Northrop T-38 Talon jet trainer
  • Northrop F-20 Tigershark
  • Capsule for Mercury - Redstone 2 which brought the chimpanzee Ham into space
  • Capsule for Gemini 11
  • Apollo - Soyuz Test Project Command Module
  • Space Shuttle Endeavour
  • Cassini -Huygens probe planet ( mock-up )
  • Pioneer 10 planetary probe
  • Mariner IV planetary probe
  • Pioneer Venus planetary probe

Conversion

In 1993, the museum decided to renovate it and in the long term to transform from a pure science museum in an academic educational institution. This new facility would then bear the name California Science Center. The plan for these changes would be carried out in three phases:

Phase I

  • Reconstruction of the main building ( Howard F. Ahmanson building).
  • Science Plaza - Exhibits in front of the main entrance. World of Life - The Science of Life in five galleries.
  • Creative World - Illuminated technologies of transportation, communication and load-bearing structures. There is a virtual reality, where visitors can operate virtual sports. There is also an earthquake simulator.
  • Special Exhibits gallery - In this area, there is a Titanic exhibition, a magic show and an exhibition about the human body.
  • ExploraStore - A business that specializes in continuing education and scientific products.

Phase II

  • New parking and gardens.
  • Renovation and remodeling of the historic armory into a new Science Center School.
  • Renovation of the air and space sector.
  • Ecosystems.

Phase III

  • Worlds Beyond - planned.

Gallery

Entrance to the California Science Center with the IMAX cinema on the left

IMAX theater at the California Science Center

Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition

Roof above the third floor

Roof above the third floor

Bell X-1 Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham (chimpanzee) Cassini–Huygens Pioneer Venus project
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