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.

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 ...

Pacific Science Center is opening its doors to the city of Seattle — literally and figuratively. Since their creation for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, Pacific Science Center and the adjacent Seattle ...

In February 2023, Pacific Science Center leadership shocked local preservationists when they floated a plan to fill in the reflecting pools of their historic courtyard at Seattle Center with soil and ...

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 ...

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 ...

!–paging_filter–pShoes with recording devices built into the heels, coins embedded with deadly needles, pens that shoot tear gas, umbrellas that fire poison pellets—ah, for the olden days of spying, ...

I am CEO of Pacific Science Center. I am responding to the article “Will a proposed apartment high-rise block out a Seattle Center treasure?” [Aug. 1, Pacific NW Magazine]: While we are adjacent to ...

Staring out into a packed house at Pacific Science Center’s Laser Dome on April 5, KEXP DJ Yaddy had a brief moment of worry about how the unique melding of her spinning and laser imagery would work. ...