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Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

• 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101 | Directions
• 619-238-1233 | Website

Museum features more than 100 hands-on science exhibitions. Films shown daily in IMAX Dome theater.

Origins of Life: Science and art intersect in exhibit where glass tubing, gas bottles, bubbling liquids, and zapping electricity form a working science experiment and a work of art. The famous experiments carried out by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey at the University of Chicago in the 1950s are re-imagined as a functional art installation that will be in operation at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center through June 9, 2013.

Explor-o-Rama: Get Your Hands on Science exhibition features “some of the all-time favorite and never-seen-before exhibits from San Francisco’s Exploratorium, with opportunities to explore mechanics, motion, math, hearing, electricity, and many other areas of science." Through June 1, 2014.