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LEARNING UNLEASHED

The Discovery Science Place is a dynamic children’s museum where young minds have the freedom to examine, play, and find wonder in the world around them.

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Better together

It’s no secret that play and learning have become increasingly separated in our world today.

It doesn’t have to be that way. At the Discovery Science Place:

  • Parents see that learning through play and exploration develops curiosity and social skills.
  • Students make connections to what they are learning in the classroom with our hands-on activities and programs.
  • Children interact with our exhibits and think more critically about the world around them.
  • Families spend more time having fun together and making memories at birthday parties and events.
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Visitor Policy Notice

To ensure a safe, family-focused experience, adults are admitted only when accompanying a child. Guided tours for adults are available by reservation.

All children must be accompanied by an adult who is at least 16.

We appreciate your understanding and support in keeping DSP a space for hands-on learning and exploration.

Creating opportunities

Seek, make, learn, and grow at the Discovery Science Place

The Discovery Science Place museum is an invitation to examine, play, and find wonder in the world around us.

The Museum

Engaging, state-of-the-art exhibits are influenced by local experts (such as Brookshire Grocery Company, Southside Bank, and CBS-19), and the best of children’s museums nationwide.

Events

Birthday parties, field trips, Adult Learning Experiences, and community-wide events are just a few of the ways you can make moments – both big and small – an adventure. See more events here.

Community

Cultivate a rich local culture when you instill curiosity and a love of learning in the next generation of Tyler and East Texas.

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Upcoming Events!

October 23rd : Spooktacular Fun Fest 

December 10th: Holiday Open House

The magic of meaningful play

Fun, hands-on learning experiences spark a love of learning with far-reaching benefits.

Academic Success

Integrated learning supports school success because it improves retention, understanding, and curiosity.

Growth and development

Interacting with the world around them grows a child not only mentally, but physically, emotionally, and socially.

Compassion

Learning about the world around them increases a child’s care for the world and others.

Build the next generation

Make learning a natural, fun part of growing up in East Texas

Cities with robust children’s museums lead in science, innovation, and culture. With an already growing premier medical community, East Texas has an opportunity to invest in our future and position ourselves as a leader in health sciences and beyond.

The Discovery Science Place is that potential. Invest in our city’s influence and legacy by sparking habits of exploration and discovery in the next generation.

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Exhibit Sponsor

$3,000

Put your name behind discovery every day. 

Connect your organization to a hands-on learning experience that thousands of children interact with throughout the year.

Sponsorship Includes:

Exhibit-area logo placement
 Discovery Circle recognition
 Select social-media recognition
 Potential ribbon-cutting opportunity

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STEM Sponsor

$5,000

For more than thirty years, Discovery Science Place has been where East Texas children come to wonder, explore, build, imagine, and discover. Teachers trust it. Generations of families know it. More than 72,500 people walk through the doors each year — including about 10,000 students on field trips from 80+ schools across 23 counties.

Children today grow up in a world full of screens. They need a place where they do more than watch. They need to touch, build, experiment, pretend, solve problems, work together, and sometimes knock something down and start over. That is what happens here. At Discovery Science Place, children do not simply watch science. They do science. Play becomes learning. Curiosity becomes discovery. An ordinary afternoon can be the start of a lifelong interest in how the world works.

Tyler is already investing in that future — new school facilities, the CTC, an expanding TJC campus, the medical school at UT Tyler. Discovery Science Place belongs in that story. A STEM Sponsor puts a company’s name and resources behind the hands-on work those students walk into: exhibits, programs, and field trips that make science something they try, not something they only hear about.

Your name and logo are in front of that audience all year — at all five events, in print, on the website, on social media, and on Discovery Circle / kiosk displays inside the museum.

What you receive:
– Name and logo at all five yearly events — print, web, and social
– Night at the Museum — Signature fundraising event
– Founders Day
– Educators Open House
– Halloween Spooktacular
– Holiday at Discovery
– In-museum recognition seen by field-trip students and daily visitors
– Family night, or 25 guest passes plus 4 signature-event tickets
– A simple year-end note on student and visitor reach

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Museums for All Sponsor

$2,000

For more than thirty years, Discovery Science Place has been where East Texas children come to wonder, explore, build, imagine, and discover. More than 72,500 people walk through the doors each year. Not every family can pay full admission.
Museums for All is how we keep that door open. A sponsor at this level helps cover reduced admission for families facing financial barriers, and helps send kids to summer camps they would otherwise miss. The museum has already served 4,500+ low-income families through Museums for All. Your gift goes straight at that gap: a visit, a camp week, a chance to be in the building with everyone else.
Children today grow up in a world full of screens. They need a place where they do more than watch — where they touch, build, experiment, and work together. That should not depend on what a family can pay at the door. At Discovery Science Place, every child should be able to do science, not just watch it.
What you receive:
  • Recognition as a Museums for All Sponsor on the website, Discovery Circle and in select social posts
  • 10 Guest passes
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