Discovery Station is a brand new hands-on science, technology and local history center located in an old bank building in downtown Hagerstown. More than 50 exhibits on loan from the state science center are on display.
Dinosaur Gallery is one of the permanent attractions and features a full scale model of a Triceratops skull, “a real favorite,” according to Marie Byers, Interim Director.
Children aged two through five years of age are not forgotten at Discovery Station. Little ones can put on a puppet show in the Early Childhood gallery or participate in more than 20 other learning activities. Byers says children sometimes cry when it’s time to leave the fun.
Hagerstown Aviation Museum, on the second floor, has exhibits such as a Cessna 150. Children can climb in to see the cockpit and instruments. Excitement is building, according to Byers, in anticipation of a NASA exhibit scheduled for March 2006.
Open Tues.-Sat. and Sun. afternoons (except July-Aug.). 101 W. Washington St., Hagerstown.
www.discoverystation.org;
1-877-790-0076.
—Gail Fleenor
