Event Calendar

Our youngest visitors can bring their imaginations as an SCI Programs Team member reads under the starry skies.

Investigate the clues chemists use with explosive experiments!

Learn to navigate the starry night skies and find exotic, hidden Deep Sky Objects. Program and location subject to change.

Have you ever wondered what Snippy the Snapping Turtle eats? Come check out a feeding demonstration of one of SCI’s most ravenous reptiles! The snapping turtle feeding may be too intense for some visitors.

Help guide a breathtaking journey through our solar system, exploring the unique features, mysteries, and wonders of its most important celestial bodies.

From things that glow to things that explode, this program is a real blast!

Step Inside the Music

Experience an unforgettable evening as the Science Center of Iowa presents Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon in our 50-foot planetarium dome.

This immersive show brings the legendary 1973 album to life with dazzling full-dome visuals that ripple, swirl, and surge in sync with every note. Surrounded by state-of-the-art surround sound and cosmic imagery, you’ll feel the music in an entirely new way.

Whether you’re reliving the soundtrack of a generation or hearing it with fresh ears, this is your chance to see and hear Dark Side of the Moon like never before.

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Step Inside the Music

Experience an unforgettable evening as the Science Center of Iowa presents Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon in our 50-foot planetarium dome.

This immersive show brings the legendary 1973 album to life with dazzling full-dome visuals that ripple, swirl, and surge in sync with every note. Surrounded by state-of-the-art surround sound and cosmic imagery, you’ll feel the music in an entirely new way.

Whether you’re reliving the soundtrack of a generation or hearing it with fresh ears, this is your chance to see and hear Dark Side of the Moon like never before.

Get Tickets

Step Inside the Music

Experience an unforgettable evening as the Science Center of Iowa presents Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon in our 50-foot planetarium dome.

This immersive show brings the legendary 1973 album to life with dazzling full-dome visuals that ripple, swirl, and surge in sync with every note. Surrounded by state-of-the-art surround sound and cosmic imagery, you’ll feel the music in an entirely new way.

Whether you’re reliving the soundtrack of a generation or hearing it with fresh ears, this is your chance to see and hear Dark Side of the Moon like never before.

Get Tickets