Experiences in the Galleries

At the Fleet Science Center, we strive to create an inclusive and engaging experience for our community. Our interactive exhibits are designed to encourage hands-on exploration and learning. We offer a diverse selection of both permanent and rotating exhibitions, in addition to live shows and demonstrations, ensuring you can always discover something new. Join us for an immersive and exciting science adventure! 

Challenge Accepted
Challenge Accepted!
Put your problem-solving skills and your creativity to the test to solve simple challenges multiple ways.
A white teen boy stands by a black teen boy. The black boy is sitting and touching a touch screen computer. Above them is a sign that says Design a Skate Park.
Design Zone
What does it take to create a video game, mix and master music or design a skate park that produces the biggest thrills?
Optical illusion with black squares, grey grid, and white dots. The illusion makes it look like black dots are moving around inside the white dots.
Illusions
Discover it’s not what you see but how you see that matters.
Miniature Tesla coil with arcs of electricity branching out
It's Electric
It’s Electric brings the science and history of electricity to life through an introduction to the types and uses of electricity.
Toddler girl in a yellow shirt holding half circle shapes in front of her eyes with green and red see through panels
Kid City
Learning is fun with developmentally appropriate activities.
A family solves a puzzle in the Mindbender Mansion exhibit
Mindbender Mansion
Solve brainteasers and partake in interactive challenges to join the Mindbender Society.
Three portrait panels in black frames sit on a wavy rainbow wall
New Science
Queer and intersectional identities are revolutionizing how science gets done.
A dark image with electric blue lines shooting towards the viewer down a hallway. The far end of the hallway has a group of people stand, walking, and running towards the viewer.
Power Play San Diego
Power Play San Diego is all about the San Diego power grid—how it works, where the energy comes from and how it gets into your home.
Aerial photo of a manmade river cut through the desert
San Diego's Water
Explore the diverse sources of San Diego’s water and the methods of delivering and processing it.
Middle school aged girl with adult man playing with a lightbulb exhibit
So Watt!
Interactive experiences let you understand how electricity is generated and how we all can conserve energy.
View of Earth from space with cities lit up
Space Gallery
Immerse yourself in four interactive areas in this gallery while understanding new discoveries about our Earth, Sun, Solar System and Universe.
Woman tinkering with colored paper on a cutting mat
Studio X
Everyone has an eXciting, innovative side, and Studio X is a place where families can eXplore it.
Two women playing in a white ball pit
The Ball Pool
Sink into the Fleet’s ball pool and let your imagination roam.
image of space nebula
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Journey through the infinite universe in the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibit.

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