SEATTLE — The Pacific Science Center will close its doors for five weeks beginning Sept. 2, marking the end of an era as it retires its dinosaur exhibit that has entertained visitors for four decades.

Raised in Seattle, Amber Kern grew up going to Pacific Science Center. She rode the 20-foot-tall high rail balance bicycle — a true test of her trust in gravity — and blew bubbles at the annual Bubble ...

It won't be a massive asteroid that dooms these Seattle dinosaurs. The sky won’t darken into a lethal haze of vaporized rock and soot. But the Pacific Science Center’s animatronic dinosaurs are going ...

Re: “Pacific Science Center, at 60, charts a course for next 60 years” [Nov. 11, Entertainment]: The 60th anniversary article about Pacific Science Center rekindled fond memories. Operating a ...

Earlier this year, the Pacific Science Center angered local historic preservationists when they floated the idea of partially filling in the reflecting pools in the courtyard of the 1962 landmark with ...

A trip to the Pacific Science Center always felt like groovy time travel, with its sleek buildings of snow-white concrete. On Wednesday, Seattle decided it was a trip worth preserving and designated ...

The Pacific Science Center is considering swapping out one of its iconic 1962 reflecting pools and replacing it with an ersatz meadow. It’s fair to say that 99% of the people reading this story know ...

The biggest hit of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair? According to then-New York Times art critic John Canaday, it wasn’t the Space Needle. Nor was it the Monorail, brand-new at the time, which barreled ...

SEATTLE — The Pacific Science Center is hosting a new exhibit honoring women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). It's called "Science for Everyone" and it includes interactive ...

SEATTLE — The Pacific Science Center is reopening for the first time since shutting down when COVID-19 hit the area in March 2020. The center announced its reopening Wednesday, saying it will now be ...

Stand 10 feet away, and they look like six brownish-red columns. Now step closer. The 10-foot-by-23-foot work shows 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, a number equal to the number of people ...