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Discovery Place

About Discovery Place

Discovery Place Science is a science and technology museum, located in Uptown, Charlotte, North Carolina. Discovery Place Science operates The Charlotte Observer IMAX Dome Theater, also referred to as an OMNIMAX theater. It is the largest IMAX Dome Theater in the Carolinas.

The museum opened in 1981 and was renovated in 2010. The IMAX Dome was opened in 1991. The theater-naming rights were secured by The Charlotte Observer.

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Founded
1981
Annual visitors
520K
520,000

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of Discovery Place; the closest, Imaginon Joe and Joan Martin Center, is about a mile away.