The California Science Center

If you live in the Los Angeles area and you have never gone to The California Science Center in Exposition Park, let me be the first one to tell you that you are missing out on an opportunity for great family fun. Exposition Park, which is located across the street from The University of Southern California (USC) is the home of The Natural History Museum, The California African-American Museum, The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and of course the California Science Center. The science center is the home to over 100 hundred exhibits. These exhibits include the creative world exhibit where guests have the opportunity to explore many different hands on activities such as demonstrations of human advances in communication and how to build solid structures that do not collapse under pressure. Other exhibits at the science center include air and space exhibits, the science court and science plaza, and the new ecosystems exhibit.
Although all of the exhibits are fun and informative, the ecosystems exhibit includes live animals. In the ecosystems exhibits extreme zone you can experience what it is like to be in the desert during a flash flood. You can also see live tortoises, chuckwallas (herbivorous lizards), and scorpions. In the kelp forest you can walk through the bottom of a huge tank filled with kelp and fish. In the river zone you can experiment with the flow of water and experiment with the fluidity of air. In the island zone you can check out the tropical fish and observe the island lizard. While the IMAX tickets and special exhibits will cost you, general admission to the California Science Center is free.