Detroit Science Center

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The Detroit Science Center is a science museum located in Midtown Detroit. It features many hands on exhibits and a IMAX Dome theater

Founded in 1970 by local businessman Dexter Ferry it the center was originally housed in a storefront. The original building at the current site opened in 1978. The early 1990s the center struggled as the state cut cultural funding, in 1991 it closed, but would reopen in 1992. In 1999 ground was broken on a $ 30 million expansion that would double the buildings size to 110,000 square feet, the project which included a new IMAX and planetarium opened to the public in July 2001. William Kessler and Associates were the architects, with the 2001 renovation and addition by S. Kenneth Neumann of Neumann/Smith Associates.

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