California Science Center Reviews

I honestly disappointed in the customer service and the they way kids are treated here, my kids went there on a trip and they had fun but when they went to the gift shop all my daughter wanted to buy as a post card she had 5$ we been to many different places and most post cards are 3$ max the the person working at the gift shop told her is was 5.99 and she didn't have enough very rudely like she was some poor worthless kid, when asked what she could buy they simply laugh and walked away my daughter cried. I should have gave her more but i honestly didn't think they would be so much. We will never be going back they shouldn't have acted that way with a child.

I specifically went here to see the space shuttle. I also enjoyed the other exhibits. An must see place if you are visiting LA

Great for kids and they have comfy sofas for Grandpa!

It's a great place to take the kids on summer break

It is a museum totally for children but it is worth the Endeavor, which costs 3 dls

Big enough museum you can take all day to go through it and not be able to see everything. Small enough museum that you don't feel overwhelmed. Lots of info to see and touch. Very interactive and hands on.

Excellent for kids in the upper elementary or middle schools. If visiting, excellent place to see and check off that you visited.

Loved it! I can't believe you can walk under the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is a fantastic science museum!

This place is nothing like it used to be. Very outdated . I was dissappointed

amazing FREE musuem! there is so much fun stuff to see and do here, so make sure you give yourself plenty of time.

I visited on weekdays, but it's free and there aren't many people. Instead, it was impressive that the working people matched the eye level of the children. The place to experience is a bit old, but a place where you can have a good time. I definitely want to try a flying bicycle, but it's surprisingly scary.

I like that place is cool when i was a little kid on elementary school everything i saw a big plane and big rockets

Awesome place for kids and adults. Not too much walking for less athletic participants

2017/8/14
Very good place

My son loved this place. Perfect for spending time with the family, learn about science, and save money. Great place

If you don't see USA's last landed space shuttle successfully, you haven't seen USA.

I went to see an exhibition of the artifacts from King Tut's tomb

The King Tut exhibit was nice. What really blew me away was the space shuttle.

Mostly really cool, with so much stuff you can get right up close to.... they even encourage you to touch exhibits such as the space shuttles tyres from its last mission. Quite a few interactive displays are broken and run down

Fun to explore and learn! They also had the space shuttle Discovery on display!

Fun Fun Fun ... I have to recommend the plane simulator race .... ohhh my gosh FUN!!! I never laughed so much, worth the 8 bucks !!! King Tut exhibit was fantastically mesmerizing!!! Awesome place for kids of all ages ;)

Great staff, fantastic exhibits, and beautiful views!

Went with my family to see King Tut exhibit. It was fabulous!

Endeavor was exhibited in the past.
It is a large and very spectacular museum.
You can also see Apollo 11.

Always a fun, educational day out with the little one!

Awesome, lots to do for kids of all ages. Took our 3yo son, he loved it.

It's a really cool place to take family to learn about science I enjoyed learning new things

Had a great time with the children. There is so much to learn about. Love it!

Went to see the King Tut exhibition. It was excellent.

Awesome dog exhibit. The dog park was the coolest..

This place is amazing to visit can probably go there two or three times in a week and still not see everything so you can relax take it in wander around for 2 or 3 hours

Very interesting and amazing place. It is a great place to learn.

Went for the King Tut Exhibit. Many things to see here, could easily spend the whole day.

amazing place for families loved it and so did my son

Good for families and the 'Endeavor' space shuttle amazing

Well I'm from England and was well impressed with the exhibition and relatively low cost of entry to the history of the dinasore. Very life like in fact so much it made you wonder how could they live on planet earth 50 million years ago.
After that I went to the spider house ugh don't like spiders but very educational.
Next was the space shuttle. That was my cup of tea. Absolutely fantastic. Just seeing the kit close to is amazing. After going back in time with dinasore's you step forward in time to man,s achievement in space. So fantastic.
Now what are the downsides:
Paying for parking and little extras to see various other displays. It soon mounted up with car parking and admission to nearly 100$ for a family of four.
Still well worth it for 6 hours truly fascinating insight to past and present.
Food 2 burgers and fries 18$ Not bad I thought. Would I go again a big Yes.

Amazing.
The Tut exhibit was incredibly well done.
The rest of the museum was fun, and of course we will be back.
Please let me in tank with shark friends....I'm their cousin!

There's a lot of interesting things to see. I work for an after school program and we take the kids every year in the summer. They love it.

Parking sucked. No one told us about the God damn construction you idiots

Went to see the King Tut exhibit and see the Space Shuttle Endeavor. They step is for setups very nice. The food in the food court was a little expensive but worth it. Can't wait to go again with a new exhibit comes.

Can't beat free!
Loved it. Would recommend this to others who haven't been

For a fee it is also possible to see the shuttle.
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo shuttles are available for free.

Great way to spend time as a family and educational

Entrance is free but parking is $12 cash only so be prepared. The museum itself doesn't look to have been updated much since the late 90s early 2000s with faded CRT monitors and many out of commission exhibits.
The sections about biomes and climate appears more up to date (in contrast anyway). All the larger exhibits are locked behind paywalls so don't expect to see the space shuttle without a little extra.

Awesome place for exposing kids to science in a fun way. My kids LOVED it!!!

I love going to the science center to see the endeavor and all of the interactive science exhibits.

It can get crowded and last time I went alot of the exhibits were closed for repair.

Fun place to learn all about science, space, and nature. Awesome date place but parking is $12

Loved this museum. It's huge, so much to see and explore! My daughter loved it, she touched and interacted with so many things there. You have go prepared to walk A LOT though. Parking was $8 and close to the entrance, all day parking till 5pm. They have a McDonald's inside the museum and you can sit outside enjoying your food. There's sitting areas to take a break and elevators in case you prefer instead of escalators.

The new Dogs exhibit is great for all ages. The movie is even better for learning about dogs that help our community.