Fernbank Science Center is a public science-education facility on Heaton Park Drive in Atlanta, owned and operated by the DeKalb County School District. It opened in December 1967 on land tied to Fernbank Forest, which citizens had purchased in 1937 to preserve it for science education before leasing it to the county school board in 1964. The center houses a roughly 9,000-square-foot exhibit hall, an observatory, electron microscopes, science labs, and one of the largest planetariums in the United States, seating around 500. Distinct from the nearby Fernbank Museum of Natural History, it provides pre-K through grade 12 science programming and public planetarium and observatory shows, all set against a 65-acre forest.
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Fernbank Science Center is a museum in Atlanta, Fulton County. It is one of 28 museums documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7785, -84.3172 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fernbank Museum of Natural History (museum), about 0.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include Emory University Planetarium, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, and Old Williams Mill Rd..
This record is drawn from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Fernbank Science Center is a public science-education facility on Heaton Park Drive in Atlanta, owned and operated by the DeKalb County School District. It opened in December 1967 on land tied to Fernbank Forest, which citizens had purchased in 1937 to preserve it for science education before leasing it to the county school board in 1964. The center houses a roughly 9,000-square-foot exhibit hall, an observatory, electron microscopes, science labs, and one of the largest planetariums in the United States, seating around 500. Distinct from the nearby Fernbank Museum of Natural History, it provides pre-K through grade 12 science programming and public planetarium and observatory shows, all set against a 65-acre forest.
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