Highlights

What To Expect

Plan Your Visit

• Operating Hours

  Hours may vary. Please check the merchant's website for the most up-to-date information.
• Location

  Liberty State Park, 222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305
• Exhibitions

  Thomas & Friends: Explore the Rails - Opened on May 30, 2026, this exhibition lets kids learn, play, and discover math, science, and engineering through hands‑on fun with Thomas, Percy, Victor, and friends across beloved TV locations.
  Dino Dig Adventure - Uncover ancient dinosaur fossils buried in more than 60 tons of sand! In Dino Dig Adventure, you'll be immersed in the landscape of a real paleontological dig. Search for fossils from seven different dinosaur species, including replicas of bones, eggs, and even dinosaur poop.
  Touch Tunnel - Liberty Science Center’s iconic 80‑foot Touch Tunnel offers an unforgettable crawl‑through adventure in pitch darkness, revealing how much we rely on sight while creating lasting memories across generations.
  Infinity Climber - The world’s first suspended climbing play space, Liberty Science Center’s Infinity Climber® spans 26 feet wide, 24 feet deep, and 19 feet tall, surrounded by 19 miles of protective wire, offering multiple thrilling routes for a 21st‑century climbing adventure.
  Wobbly World - Created with renowned toy designer Cas Holman, is a bright, off‑kilter wonderland where young children (42" or less in height) explore balance, motion, and cause‑and‑effect in a one‑of‑a‑kind exhibition.
  Wild About Animals - Cotton-top tamarin monkeys. Red-footed tortoises. Naked mole rats! Liberty Science Center is home to 100+ fascinating animal species. Come meet many of them in our Wild About Animals exhibition.
  The Great Train Set - Captures the marvels of 1950s rail travel with one of the most elaborate model railroads ever built, recreating the Lackawanna line from Hoboken Terminal through small‑town New Jersey to Pennsylvania coal country in unforgettable detail.
  Universe Revealed - This gallery showcases NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—a million miles out in space—highlighting its extraordinary engineering feats and breathtakingly detailed images of the cosmos.
  Making Mammoths - On Liberty Science Center’s third floor, Making Mammoths unveils groundbreaking science led by Harvard geneticist George Church—complete with a stunning woolly mammoth replica—exploring how reviving these giants could even help combat global warming.
  Microbes Rule! - Step inside Microbes Rule! to explore the mighty microscopic organisms that shape life on Earth—through stunning art and technology, discover how most microbes benefit us and are essential to our survival.
  Cosmic Portal - Walk through Liberty Science Center’s Cosmic Portal, a stunning wormhole‑inspired vestibule where immersive imagery, sound, and lighting effects transport you into the compression and expansion of space and time.
  Monuments to Motherhood - Unveiled May 18, 2026, Liberty Science Center’s Monuments to Motherhood by artist Molly Gochman honours caregivers across generations with intertwining cast‑bronze forms that invite hands‑on interaction and shared experience.
  Our Hudson Home - The Hudson River is home to thousands of species – including our own! In Our Hudson Home, discover the importance of this river as a means of travel and commerce, a source of food, and a place to play.
  Izzo Family Touch Tank - The Touch Tank allows you to safely touch horseshoe crabs, sea urchins, whelks, sea stars, and other creatures that call the Hudson their home. Don't miss this stunning new feature of Our Hudson Home!
  Hoberman Sphere - At Liberty Science Center, the iconic Hoberman Sphere—designed by artist‑engineer Chuck Hoberman—expands and contracts with hundreds of scissor‑like connectors, delighting millions since 1992 and showcasing brilliant engineering in motion.
  The Dream Machine - At Liberty Science Center, The Dream Machine transforms bicycle pumps into bursts of colour, sound, and scent—an interactive sensory adventure that stirs emotions from joy to disgust to hope.
  Energy Quest 2.0 - In Liberty Science Center’s newly renovated Energy Quest 2.0, explore solar and wind power, race hand‑crank cars, and pedal bikes that run appliances—an interactive adventure revealing the ingenuity behind unlocking energy all around us.
  Pixel Art - Unleash your creativity at Liberty Science Center’s Pixel Art wall, where 952 rotating dials with over 1,000 colour options let you design vibrant patterns and share your coolest creations online with #LibertyScienceCenter.
  Wonder Why - Kids and families celebrate the joy of science through hands‑on challenges—hang from bars, climb rock walls, make minerals glow, and test your mind with optical illusions.
  Bees to Bots - The third floor of Liberty Science Center is buzzing with excitement! In Bees to Bots, peer inside our honey bee hive to see real bees at work, busily building honeycomb and making honey. Then explore our multimedia exhibition to discover innovative ways that scientists are studying bees.
  Brain Games - Practice your critical thinking skills and challenge yourself! In Brain Games, you’ll discover coding by teaching a robot to navigate a maze, piece together magnet shapes to create the five Platonic Solids, explore patterns using big colorful foam blocks, and more.

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