McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center

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New England's premier air and space science center. http://starhop.com/

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The Sky Is No Limit, It's Just The Beginning!

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center honors NH space pioneers Christa McAuliffe and Alan Shepard. Come explore astronomy and aviation with interactive exhibits, simulations, planetarium, observatory, and more!

We specialize in creating educational offerings for home school students, and schools. Please take a look at our Educators Guide To The Universe (13-14). http://goo.gl/X5lNCM

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The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center’s mission is to inspire every generation to reach for the stars, through engaging, artful and entertaining activities that explore astronomy, aviation, earth and space science.

Address: 2 Institute Dr, Concord, NH 03301, USA

Phone: (603) 271-7827

Website

moc.pohrats@siksluregj

State: New Hampshire

City: Concord

Zip Code: 03301

Opening Hours

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday: 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Sunday: 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM

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Reviews

Very disappointing. Much too expensive for what is there. Some of the displays are not marked at all, like the Kitfox. It just sits there with no marker, no info. Many of the interactive displays don’t work-touch screens with no links where there should be, no magnets in a display on different size magnets, touch screen for satellite says ‘touch menu’ and no menu on it.  Iced coffee and iced tea urns in cafe empty at 1pm on a Saturday. Planetarium kinda cool but the show seemed unplanned and unscripted, like a last minute thing. There’s a real opportunity here to make something great, but it needs a lot of upgrading. I feel ripped off. My $16.50 would have been much better spent elsewhere.

 7 years ago (03-02-2018)

Way overpriced for such a small exhibit. Everything is outdated and almost every seat in the planetarium is taped due to the upholster being damaged. We paid nearly 50$ for 3 people for admission and planetarium show. we were through in 1 hour including the 35 min. planetarium show. Not worth the drive.

 7 years ago (06-02-2018)

A medium-sized space museum that is great for families.  It also has a planetarium, observatory, gift shop and, strangely, a decent cafeteria with reasonable prices.  It loses a star because it hasn't been updated in years.  Literally nothing has changed since the first time I brought my youngest, which was probably 2011, and I suspect it was the same long before then as well.

 8 years ago (06-07-2017)

Great place to take students!

 7 years ago (14-03-2018)

This museum offer a good experience especially if you take advantage of their Planetarium.  I would say this museum is great for children ages 4 and up.  They have number of interactive stations including flight simulators with a Space Shuttle and Moon Landing.  

Do take note that Planetarium has different shows throughout the day (we didn't know this until we went in).  ASTC card holders will be able to get in here free so we only paid $15 total for the Planetarium.  

I wish they did have more exhibits and displays towards the back room but overall it's a good place to visit.  I would've love to see actual model figures of various planets and the Sun (a lot of paintings/drawings). 

Upstairs there's a small section with a slide & areas for smaller children to play with blocks on the table.  They do have a small cafe as well and a gift shop.

I would say couple hours would be a good time to enjoy this museum.

 9 years ago (30-11-2016)

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