Exhibits

Float, grow a hand, or crawl up the side of the Anti-Gravity Mirror! Using your friends and family as audience members, you can defy gravity in front of their very eyes. Come find out how today!

 

This exhibit was built by the Pierre PTA Units.

 

Climb through the different levels of our Treehouse ecosystem, all the way up to the Eagle’s Nest and back down to the Cookie Tree! Identify weather patterns and normalities, match birdsong to bird, and learn about the relationship between trees and carbon!

 

Birdy Bonanza

Eagle’s Nest

Eye on the Sky

The Forest Carbon Cycle

Weather Station #2

Weather Station #4

 

This exhibit was made possible through support from the Pierre-Ft. Pierre Rotary Club.

Explore the fascinating life beneath our feet, crawl through the soil like an earth worm, connect with your inner fungus, dress up as a rotifer, or hear the sound of tardigrades fertilizing the soil.

This exhibit was made possible through support from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Pierre-Ft.Pierre Rotary Club.

Discovery Town is an SDDC in-house design of community, science, play, and learning. The town was founded on June 18th, 2015.

Discover Mail Depot

Established on February 4th, 2024,  the Discover Mail Depot is open for business! Visitors who choose to be postal workers can weigh packages of varying sizes and weight, sort the stamp collection, and send a real postcard thanks to the SDDC. By completing tasks at the Discover Mail Depot, you are strengthening your skills socially, in math, and in reading!

Hop in the mail truck and grab a postage bag as you set off to pick up and deliver mail to businesses all across Discovery Town!

This exhibit was made possible through support from the South Dakota Community Foundation and Youth Philanthropy Fund.

 

Paws + Claws Veterinary Clinic

What is your favorite pet? A dog, cat, or bunny? What if you could care for them all? You can do that and more at the Paws + Claws Veterinary Clinic! 

Rainbow Cafe

Growing Up Garden Center

Grandma Kay's Wee Care

Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition is an engaging and interactive museum exhibition about Earth and space science for family audiences.

Learn about how NASA develops a Space Mission. Design, build and test your own spacecraft. Can it perform all the essential functions AND stand up to shaking and spinning? Take a look into the realm of the invisible by using models of instruments used on NASA missions. Plan an entire mission using a board game and MORE.

Get a sneak peek at the exhibit here and visit http://www.explorescience.org/sun for more information about exploring the Sun, Earth and Universe with NASA.

The Stroop Effect is a phenomenon that shows us a lot about the brain’s ability to understand information. Our brains have trouble naming the color of the letters when it’s used to spell the name of a different color!

Create your very own free souvenir (1 per person, per visit) at the Harmonograph! This simple machine is used to study math, art, sound, and science by drawing geometric patterns. 

This exhibit was built by the South Dakota Engineering Society and Steve Pirner. Exhibit paper is donated by The Capitol Journal.

The Van de Graaff generator works by static electricity, like shuffling your feet across the carpet and shocking yourself on the doorknob. Big rubber bands move to create electrons. The electrons move up the rubber band to the metal ball and into the person. The electrons repel each other, so they try to get as far away from each other as possible. We see this effect when the a visitor's hair moves as far away from the body as it can!