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Orlando Science Center
The Orlando Science Center is a
nonprofit museum located in downtown Orlando, Florida, and
accredited by the AAM and a member of the ASTC. It is open all year
long, since weather is no problem, but closes on Wednesdays and
Easter, Christmas eve and day and Thanksgiving Day. It was opened to
inspire science education for life, and brings marvelous venues to
the city. The center was opened in 1960, as the Central Florida
Museum, in Loch Haven Park, and for the first ten years was an
anthropology museum with numerous collections of relics that pertain
to the state and the Caribbean basin. In the early 1970s, the board
of directors decided to change the museum's direction and made it a
hands-on science and technology center, changing itself in 1973, and
being renamed in honor of one of its famous sons and astronaut, John
Young.
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