The New Detroit Science Center to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary July 28-30 With Special '5 for 5' Admission and Extended Hours

The New Detroit Science Center to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary July 28-30 With Special '5 for 5' Admission and Extended Hours

Offer Includes IMAX(R), Planetarium, Two Traveling Exhibits and Museum Admission for Only $5!

DETROIT, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrate The New Detroit Science Center's fifth anniversary as the "new" Science Center, July 28-30, 2006, with special "5 for 5" admission and extended hours.

Visitors can experience an IMAX(R) Dome Theatre film, Dassault Systemes Planetarium show, the Robots: The Interactive Exhibition and SPACE: A Journey to Our Future special exhibits, and museum admission to all of the Science Center's hands-on exhibits and live science shows for only $5 per person, a savings of $13.95 off the adult admission price.

Museum hours will be extended on Friday, July 28, from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday, July 29, from 10:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Sunday, July 30, from 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.

The IMAX(R) Dome Theatre will show Bugs!, Mystery of the Nile, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon and Journey into Amazing Caves, the film that debuted in the theater July 28, 2001. Caves is back for a limited three-day showing July 28-30, 2006.

The Dassault Systemes Planetarium will show The Greatest Wonders of the Universe, Starlit Summer Nights, The Sky Above Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and the very first show to appear in the planetarium, Views of the Universe, back for a limited run July 28-30, 2006.

The Science Center re-opened as The New Detroit Science Center on July 28, 2001 following a two-year, $30 million renovation and expansion. Since then, more than 1.5 million visitors have experienced the wonders of science and technology at the Science Center, including more than 500,000 children as part of school field trips, 13,000 summer campers and scouts, hundreds of community groups and thousands of families exploring and learning together.

Over the last five years, the Science Center has brought Detroit Jane Goodall, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit, moon rocks, Monster Trucks and more. It has introduced 19 IMAX(R) Dome Theatre films, 18 planetarium shows, 20 different live demonstration shows and 10 major traveling exhibits. The Foucault Pendulum in the GM Motion Laboratory has even swung back and forth 22,525,715 times!

For information on show times, hours, directions and parking, please call 313.577.8400 or go online to www.detroitsciencecenter.org.

The New Detroit Science Center features 110,000 square feet of scientific exploration, including Michigan's only IMAX(R) Dome Theatre; the Dassault Systemes Planetarium; the Ford Learning Resource Center; the DTE Energy Sparks Theater; the DaimlerChrysler Science Stage; an 8,700 square-foot Science Hall for traveling exhibits; five exhibit laboratories - Space Laboratory, General Motors Motion Laboratory, Dow Foundation Life Sciences Laboratory, Waves & Vibrations Laboratory, and Jean and Sam Frankel Matter & Energy Laboratory; an SBC Children's Gallery for pint-size scientists; and a Special Events Lobby. It has served more than 1.5 million visitors since its grand re-opening on July 28, 2001. For more information, please call 313-577-8400 or visit the website, http://www.detroitsciencecenter.org/.

Source: The New Detroit Science Center

CONTACT: Kelly Fulford, Director of PR & Marketing of The New Detroit
Science Center, +1-313-577-8400, ext. 430, or fax, +1-313-832-1623, or
kfulford@sciencedetroit.org

Web site: http://www.detroitsciencecenter.org/

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