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Maryland Science Center

Explore three floors of hands-on science exhibits, dinosaur skeletons, a planetarium and an IMAX theater on the Inner Harbor.

601 Light St · Baltimore, MD

About Maryland Science Center

The Maryland Science Center opened on Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 1976, near the foot of Federal Hill Park. Admission covers three floors of interactive exhibit halls, the planetarium and a science demo stage. The collection includes more than two dozen dinosaur skeletons, and the building also has an observatory and an IMAX theater with a five-story screen.

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