The science center is a wonderful asset for Danville. The newly remodeled galleries, new permanent exhibits, and the addition of the creativity lab are all reasons to take your family, regardless of age. Theres something for everyone.

The Danville Science center just underwent a huge renovation! It is amazing! The whole lower level is dedicated to water! It has fun, interactive exhibits, like a water maze and water painting! The upstairs level has lots of physical activities! The creativity lab is a really neat addition to the upstairs too!

It was beyond amazing there, great staff. Was our first time visiting today and we loved every minute of it, definitely will be going back

Very Educational And Brings A Very Good Light To The Town. 4-Star Experience.

Great place for families. The membership is a great deal! The digital dome is amazing.

Fun interactive place I like to bring my nieces and nephews. You do not have to be scientific to enjoy the neat and wonderful exhibits. For a town like Danville to have such a dynamic educational place for kids that encourages inquisitive minds to explore is awesome and gives me hope for the River District.

Im building it so it gonna be awesome bring your kids

I got lice here 2x but it was really fun, great childhood memories 6/10 would recommend

Fun place to bring small children!! We went as part of a school field trip and the kids had a blast. Super clean and well maintained area. Exhibits rotate every six months so there is always something new when visiting. We spent the entire school day here and didnt see the same thing twice. The IMAX theatre was fun. The entire river district has a special type of downtown charm.

A great place to learn about science and nature

I went to Danville Science Center because my sons friend had a birthday there. The place was clean, the staff was friendly, and the exhibits were fun and interactive. I think I had the same amount of fun as my son. Definitely plan to go again.

Went to a kids birthday party. The kids are always so interested in the displays. Even some the adults with curiosity are held captive by the knowledge they learn form the experience.

Really nice set up for a school field trip. Kids loved it especially anything that was hands on. My kid really enjoyed the butterfly garden exhibit.

This is the Danville Amtrak station (not the science museum). Passenger service north to New York and south to New Orleans.

Great asset to our city, especially the dome. Lovely grounds in a promising area. My only squabble: dome presentations and exhibits need to change a lot more frequently. Ive gone several times and very little would have changed. Id go more if there were more to see. A membership is worth the freedom of going at will; however, its far more worth the fact that you join a network of museums across the country and world where you can get in free! Buy during a big event when they may be offering it at a steep discount.

Great place to take your young ones. Always fun exhibits and never gets old for my son!

I am here now Saturday May 25 and its going on 10:00am. Their site and front door say they open at 9:30. No one is here and the door is locked. Google does say hours may differ for the Monday holiday. When the Science Center is closed, so is the Butterfly House and thats what I came to see after leaving the Community Market. Surely, they are not closed Sat, Sun and Mon for Memorial Day as bad as museums need funding. Its not mentioned on the door.

Small but inexpensive. Kids love it. Lots of hands on.

Ideal place to carry the young ones to explore and see how things work and get their interest churning, new ideas and thoughts brewing their developing minds. Reasonable prices and the movies they show are very entertaining and intriguing for little ones. Even though it is geared towards a younger generation, there are still interesting things that adults and grownups will enjoy and learn from.So, if you want to get to know some new things and push that button for little intellect to jump start, take a trip to the Danville Science Center soon.

Not busy or full of other kids, lots of separate areas for my kids to run and be loud without bothering other people. Several buildings as well and not overpriced. Even the gift shop was reasonable. Great place.

Wonderful place to take children. It is educational, clean and entertaining. Also affordable. Good job Danville!

Very fun and educational... love the digital dome

Excellent. Receptionist very pleasant and helpful!

Not bad! Good place to let the kids have hands on learning experience!

My kids really enjoy coming here!

Had some neat exhibits, The planetarium was really nice.

Nice for educational purposes. They are improving the buildings and grounds. They also have fun activities for the young children

Good way to spend this rainy afternoon.

Nice place to take the grandkids especially the butterfly garden

SUPER A GREAT PLACE WITH A LOT TO A DO FOR A ALL AGES!!!

My kids always love the dome theater here as well as the hands on part! Great job!

We had a great time! Only need about 2hrs before everyone is ready to go. I dont know that I see the value in a membership as there isnt that much that makes worth going multiple times.

Lots for kids to do and see, spread across multiple buildings. Along with the new space housed in an old building, theres also a small museum of wildlife in the old train Depot across the way. And in the depot basement, more play area and bathrooms. On the other side of the depot, you can visit the caboose and a small butterfly house. Very reasonable price for everything you have access to.

Took my six year old and we really enjoyed everything about the museum. Science exhibits, train, butterfly garden and the mounted animals and insects. Also very reasonably priced.

Fun for the kids! Lots of things for them to learn and see. Lots of hands on exhibits!

My 10 and 4 year old had lots of fun but my 12 year old wasnt to enthusiastic about it. The old train station with all the animals were pretty cool. We wont go back for another visit.

Great facility. We had our 8 year olds birthday party here. We made slime, watched a digital dome movie and explored the center. The staff is very friendly and knowledgeable.

So many great learning activities for kids.

Affordable and excellent for all ages. My eight and two year old has a blast and there was relatable content for both ages. So much fun, I learned a ton and the dome is incredible!

Albert Harris Elementary School had a great day at the Danville Science Center today. The visit was well organized and all staff were friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Will definitely go back!!

This place was awesome! Enjoyed every minute of the time we were there!

Had a great time and didnt feel like it was to much or not enough to see and do.

It was lots of fun. 2 floors of hands on learning and fun. The dome movies where great. Cant wait to go again.

This was a very interesting place to visit. I think its a little bit more kids oriented but it is still a fun place to visit nonetheless.

Only got an hour to spend here before they closed. Now the kids are already asking when we are coming back.

Great small science center to promote interest in science through interactive displays. Well done.

What an awesome experience for field trips and family trips!

The renovations are gorgeous and great for entertaining young kids, and adults as well.

Could be more engaging exhibits but the staff is really nice and the dome is super cool

Family fun - 1 year old to 70!

My grandson was excited and it was adventure for him. He is 4

Cool place to bring the kids to learn about science and a little on trains. The place has a real caboose display and the local model railroad club has a display. Plus this place is right beside the main train line that goes through this area.

Had a great time, my Wife and I took our two grand sons. They both said it was awsome! Highly recommended...

Great stuff for your kids to do and a fun little family trip

Great place....must go

Love this place and my daughter does too!

Saw ACCIDENTAL ASTRONAUTS cartoon in the theater. Great dome. The science station is colocated with the Train Station with a very BAD opening and closing schedule that Does Not coincide with the train, therefore it is not worth the $10. NASA should attract train passengers on a schedule then we ASTRONAUTS wont burn up waiting for space on the train.

The digital dome movies are fabulous. The exhibits are super for younger kids, lots of physical manipulatives. Enjoyed the train stations existing exhibits too.

Nice place to take your little ones!

This little museum is not fancy but it is a big hit with my kids .Whoever came up with the ideas in the design deserves more than 5 stars for creativity.

This was a wonderful trip for the kids. The staff were friendly, experienced, and knew how to manage a group of kids. I definitely recommend this trip to anyone.

Very nice place especially for children. We have been several times. Grandkids love it.

Nice family fun day event. We spent almost four hours and saw just about everything in both buildings, the butterfly house and the caboose. It seems likes half of the exhibits are permanent and half rotate. Friendly staff - knowledgable and happy to chat.

Good little day trip with kids

The new dome they have for movies is really nice. I like how the one floor exhibits seems to change a lot. Makes it interesting and more reasons to go back. Dont forget to check out the train station as it is part of the museum, just in a different building.

Educational and interactive.

This is a awesome place! Adults and children alike will enjoy the experience there.

Nice little family spot! We went with the school on my childs field trip and we enjoyed it.

Great place for kids and adults to visit. The movies in the dome are outstanding!!

Good place for kids.

Was raised in Danville but left the city in 1976 join the Army never saw or visited anything here untill today. Very nice place e to go and walk away

Its really cool and so many things to look at and though Science Museum have a boring rap, you wont be bored.

Cute. Small but cute

Had a great time on the school field trip. They had an interactive station that explained and demonstrated tidal waves, and how tsunamis are so destructive. See if you can build a lego house that can withstand the waters power.

Nice. Train station was redone.

Great place for kids and hands on fun!

It was the first time we have ever been there and we loved it. Especially the butterfly garden.

Extremely fun and educational for the whole family. Exhibits are well designed and easy to get kids involved.

Not much for 18 mth old. 11 and 7 yr old got bored fast

Our grandson is 2 1/2 years old and loved all the hands on fun. We stayed for 3 hours and be would have stayed longer but a nap was calling him!!!

Fun for the little ones! Adults can learn a few things too!

Very interesting very clean lots of educational things to do.

Love to go to the Science Center everyone is friendly and its lots of fun things to do for everyone.

There just wasnt much to do compared to Greensboro

Gets better every year

The employees are always great there and full of energy!

Science center is always a good fun, the kids love it!

Very informational

Good place with changing exhibit and good dome shows.

Nice little science Center with a butterfly house and a lot of history!

My 2 year old loves to play here

If you are local to the area and have small kids, this place is great! Its a great place to first experience science. It has a small dome planetarium. It uses many shows from the UNC planetarium (which I love). Its easy to come here with not many other visitors around. Which makes it a great place to first discover science. Because we went in a small group and had the small dome planetarium to basically ourselves, my son (who is special needs) was able to sit through his first planetarium experience! At UNC he has only made it through the first five minutes before we have to leave so we dont disrupt everyone else. The center also provides several exhibits that are hands on. Which is a great way to learn and allows for the fun aspect to take over while children dont even know theyre learning. However, the things I did not like were several expectations that I thought were not clearly stated and not easily done by children. There is a taxidermy area, I think it is very cool, but you shouldnt advertise it towards children (especially smaller ones). In these areas we were told to walk not run (reasonable), do not touch anything (reasonable but already hard), and to not be loud (maybe reasonable under certain circumstances). However, my point is this, although these things are reasonable to a certain degree. How do you give elementary school aged children free range in this area and you want them to do all of these things at once? Its not realistic. If we all had our own space, like at a desk in a classroom (probably still unreasonable, but thats a different issue) maybe this could have been achieved. Maybe even walk them around in a line, explaining as you go? A little tour of sorts. Keep them interested and engaged in areas where they have such strict limitations on behavior. Just ideas. If you have small children, I would just skip these areas, even if they try to push them on you. The butterfly area is neat. Not like most of the butterfly areas/houses I have been to. The rest of the people I went with were disappointed by it. However, I will tell you why I liked it. This area was outside. It was in a screened in greenhouse type of environment. Most of the ones I have visited are either wet or dry rainforest environments (or something else similar). The other adults I was with thought this to be nothing special and all things you could find in any backyard locally. Yes, they were right, however what I saw was the childrens excitement. Not everyone has butterfly bushes and a wide variety of butterflies at their house. They dont all have butterfly boxes where they can watch the caterpillars turn to butterflies. They also dont have the concentration of butterflies that were found in this area. The kids were very excited as the many varieties of butterflies flew around them, landing on them, and just being graceful creatures. I also thought it was a great oppurtunity to not just see tropical exotic butterflies that I am used to seeing at places like this, but to see up close, with not so shy butterflies, the type of variety that we may find at our own homes, at local parks, and at local areas. One of those moments like when someone moves to the area from another country and they have never actually seen a squirrel, deer, or opossum. That moment when we remember how special our own backyard, county, state, and community is! The gift shop is small, but I found it offered a lot of what small children would like, as well as enough different types of science related activities and gifts. The prices in the gift shop were also extremely reasonably priced. I find this is becoming more of a trend in science centers, but even so, I have never seen prices this good. If you gave your child $2, they could leave with a small item or two or possibly three and leave very happy, and with something interesting. Overall, I recommend a visit.

Nice museum with traveling exhibits and some old ones.

Very informative. Lots of fun

Very fun and educational!! Well be going back!

You can touch things Docent very friendly an know about science

Very nice museum

Awesome place to spend the day with the family

Exhibits were closing. Only had a chance to go into gift store.

Great, friendly staff and terrific exhibits.