Go for a ride 60 feet up to understand what center of gravity really means.
Look mom, no gravity! Try to dock a space vehicle to a space station in this multi-axis chair.
"You enter the museum mentally, long before you actually enter its soaring light-filled atrium." —Sunset
Scientific American magazine calls the California Science Center "way cool."
California Science Center:
Science Court
Science Court
LOS ANGELES, CA
A 112-foot high, glass ceilinged public space links exhibit galleries. But, this is no ordinary lobby. Large-scale, whole body exhibits in the Science Court entice visitors’ participation—whether visitors tackle the physics of balance on a high wire bike, 60 feet above the ground, or try to master weightlessness in a gyroscopic chair.
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Opened February 1998
CREDITS
Exhibit Development
California Science Center
West Office Exhibition Design
Master Plan
West Office Exhibition Design
Exhibit Fabrication
Attraction Services
Building Architect
Zimmer Gunsel Frasca Partnership
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Creative approaches appropriate to the subject matter–this is one of West Office’s qualities I always valued a great deal.
—Ann Muscat, Deputy Director Exhibits and Education