Meredith Seiss

Review of INFINITY Science Center

I was interested in this science center from the h...

I was interested in this science center from the highway and with a large space shuttle next to it, it's hard to miss. Honestly this was a disappointment though because of the high price for not much content. It costs $15 per adult to get in. Theres 2 floors, the first floor has a cafe, gift store, small rides that cost money and several other very spread out activities (that weren't terribly interesting, maybe only to a 5-9 yr old). Some of the activities being a very large Jenga game and a big screen with interactive touch screens to show how hurricanes form and take path. It seemed like most of the first floor was closed off (sections for field trips/schools or renovations). Upstairs is more of a museum type thing, very spread out still (so there's not a lot of content) but had a lot of information/blurbs and collected items from inside space shuttles and "what life would be like in space" or when they were preparing to go to space. The coolest thing to me upstairs was the heat detector video feed, you could stand in front of it and see yourself in all different colors. There were tours (taken by bus) included in admission that went to a location for NASA that we didn't end up going on since the line became fairly long and they were once an hour (which was more than enough time for seeing everything in the museum). The tours may have made the admission almost worth it (still surprised that this would be over $10/person). If you plan on coming here, I would look into the schedule for the tours and try to plan accordingly. Outside is a free very small nature board walk type thing (it was very hot in the sun). You can also take pictures with the space shuttle next to the building for free, so if you plan a quick stop by that may be cool. Overall it was overpriced and I was disappointed because it looks a lot cooler from the outside than what's actually inside of it.