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Science Museum Of Virginia

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2500 W Broad St Richmond VA 23220
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(804) 864-1503
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Business Hours

Status: Closed

Sunday
11:30am-5:00pm
Monday
9:30am-5:00pm
Tuesday
9:30am-5:00pm
Wednesday
9:30am-5:00pm
Thursday
9:30am-5:00pm
Friday
9:30am-5:00pm
Saturday
9:30am-5:00pm

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Featuring three stories of hands-on exhibits that provide unique experiences, inspiring you to enrich your life through scie...nce. Giant Screen Movies Our immersive films are shown in a five-story Dome, projected on over two-thirds of the screen for the ultimate "You Are There" experience. Periodic Table café serves sandwiches, salads, desserts and coffee. Free WiFi. Shop4Science features the...

Explore the universe at Richmond's Science Museum. A variety of hands-on exhibits, a planetarium and an IMAX theater make this spot a favorite for families. Children and adults will find something to fascinate them at every turn. The museum features a children's theater, live shows of the current night sky and a journey into the living cell. Also shown here are current IMAX films.

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Aerospace, astronomy, electricity, physical sciences, computers, crystals, telecommunications, and the Foucault pendulum are among the subjects covered in exhibits here. Older children and teens love the Ethyl IMAX Dome and Planetarium, and adults enjoy the Virginia Tech Solar Decathlon House, a working model of a green home of the future. The museum is in a former train station with a massive...

Richmond's favorite interactive museum keeps kids thinking with hands-on lessons in aerospace, chemistry and biology.

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Is Virginia's Science Museum an interactive hub or a science class gone awry? On most days, this landmark resembles a bit of both. Housed in a renovated train station built in...

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100

Love this local museum with space, science and local railroad history and artifacts. Great interactive place for children!

Excellent time and visited Body world, inside out. Amazing attraction

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100

This is a great museum. My 12 year old daughter loves all the available activities. We took a friend to see the inside out exhibit and it was wonderful. They had a great time. They enjoyed the interactive Tesla coil exhibit that was available and...

Body world expo

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100

We went here to see the Body World Inside Out with my partner. The expo was great, they had so many different animals and information. Everything was clean and the popcorn was delicious. There’s an area of the museum that has fun things to do....

large and engaging science museum

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This is a very large science museum. It has an Imax type theater and plenty of interactive elements to keep children and adults entertained while they learn.

Nice day trip with the kids

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80

This is an interesting museum with a wide variety of exhibits, many of them hands on. They also have special exhibits and a dome theater.

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Sci Mus of Virginia & Ethyl Imaxdome & Planetarium is located at 2500 W Broad St, Richmond, VA. This location is in the Museums neighborhood. This business specializes in Movies & Film and Tourist Attractions.

The Science Museum of Virginia offers dynamic exhibits, events and breathtaking dome features on the largest screen in Virginia.

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Science Museum of Virginia, founded in 1977 and located in Richmond, Va., organizes a wide range of exhibitions related to scientific experiments and concepts. The museum organizes exhibitions, such as Bioscape- A Journey into Life, Computer Bits and Pieces, Crystal World, Electriworks, Light Vision-Eyesight to Star Light and Matter and Molecules. It also organizes outdoor recreational programs...

The Science Museum of Virginia carries many hands-on exhibits aimed at teaching scientific concepts to its visitors. There are hundreds of permanent exhibits as well as some travelling ones. Also located inside the building is an Imax Dome. The center periodically features new Imax movies.

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Stop by the museum's gift shop on your way out for unique toys, books and collectibles.

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Loud and boisterous. If you hit the museum at a time when elementary school classes or camps are visiting, you may want to return another day.

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