Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center
A downtown interactive science museum with an IMAX dome theater that brings in traveling science exhibits each year, popular with families.
The Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center is on the downtown riverfront. It has interactive galleries on physics and life sciences, a children's play area and an IMAX giant-screen theater, and each year it hosts large traveling exhibitions. It suits families for a half-day outing. Admission is charged, and the theater and special exhibits cost extra. The center is north of Old City Hall, and it can be visited on foot together with the History Museum of Mobile and Fort Condé.
Opening hours
Tue–Sat 9:00 am–4:00 pm, Sun 12:00–4:00 pm (check the official website)
Nearby sights
- History Museum of Mobile
- Fort Condé
- GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
- Conde-Charlotte Museum House
- Bienville Square
- Mobile Carnival Museum
- Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
- Richards DAR House