science center news

Experience design firm JRA has been acquired by live entertainment specialist RWS Entertainment Group. The news was revealed in a press conference today (16 November) ... More

The Children's Science Center (CSC), an upcoming science centre in Sterling, Virginia, has received a US$10m (£7.5m, €8.9m) donation from the Northwest Federal Credit Union ... More

A new ten-year plan has been unveiled by Greensboro Science Center (GSC) in North Carolina, US, incorporating a package of expansions and renovations to the ... More

Ground has been broken on a new US$5m (€4.36m, £3.81m) science centre in Charleston, West Virginia. Set to open in Q3 later this year, the ... More

Renderings have been released for a new science centre and planetarium coming to Sacramento, California, in 2020. Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture in Sacramento was tasked ... More

South Carolina’s Roper Mountain Science Center is to launch a fundraising campaign as it seeks to secure US$14m (€12.26m, £11.05m) to construct a new environmental ... More

The city of Portland in Maine, US, has lost its science centre after just three years of operation, owing to poor ticket sales. The Portland ... More

Ecsite – the European Network of Science Centers and Museums – has looked at how shopping centres and retail areas can be used to drive ... More

As the visitor attractions sector gears up for the year ahead, Attractions Management looks at what’s in the pipeline for 2018, with openings, redevelopments, landmark ... More

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles (NHM) has revealed its masterplan to transform the 104-year-old institution over the next decade. Designed by Frederick Fisher ... More

The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey, has launched a fundraising campaign to raise US$25m (€21m, £19m) in celebration of its 25th anniversary. ... More

SeaWorld has named Marc Swanson as its new chief financial officer with Elizabeth Gulacsy taking up Swanson’s previous position of chief accounting officer. Swanson, who ... More

Dutch design agency NorthernLight has completed the design phase for the redevelopment of Sochi’s Olympic Village, which is turning its former media centre from the ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from Elon Musk’s latest big idea to a knighthood for David Adjaye. Monday ... More

The tall tales of Jules Verne, the mysteries of the moon and the Chinese fairytale of the Jade rabbit have inspired a quirky new French ... More

NASA has awarded the Orlando Science Center in Florida a US$1.2m (€1.1m, £930,000) grant to develop a programme using mobile exhibit carts to educate critically-ill ... More

The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, is changing its name as part of a major revamp to demonstrate a new focus on science. The ... More

The European Network of Science Centers and Museums (Ecsite) has revealed the programme for the 28th edition of its annual conference, coming to Porto, Portugal ... More

Mobile AR, New Media Education and the “Matthew Effect” have all been highlighted as potential trends affecting scientific institutions across the world, according to the ... More

Plans have been unveiled in Nashville, Tennessee, for a US$500m (€471m £401m) development set to feature an 829-bedroom hotel and a host of new attractions. ... More

Kim Gladstone Herlev, director of Denmark’s only science centre, has talked about the institution’s future following its landmark DKK880m (US$126m, €118.3m, £100.3m) redevelopment, revealing grand ... More

Nearly US$2.5m (€2.3m, £2m) has been made available to science centres and museums across the state of North Carolina, with the government grants designed to ... More

A Danish science museum dedicated to celebrating curiosity has reopened today (26 January), wowing visitors with a 100m (328ft) long twisting copper staircase and walls ... More

Astronaut Tim Peake has announced his return to space as the Russian capsule that carried him to and from the International Space Station has gone ... More

Greensboro Science Center in North Carolina has announced plans for a US$10m (€9.4m, £8.2m) capital campaign to double the size of its zoo, creating new ... More