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Arizona Science Center
A science museum in downtown Phoenix, founded in 1984 and housed since 1997 in a building designed by Antoine Predock.
- Rank in Arizona
- #395of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 39.0 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Museum
The Arizona Science Center is a science museum at 600 Washington Street, in Heritage and Science Park in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded in 1984 as the Arizona Museum of Science & Technology in a downtown storefront; its current building, designed by Antoine Predock, was completed in 1997. Alongside daily demonstrations throughout the centre, it runs shows in the Dorrance DOME and in a five-storey giant screen IMAX theatre.
Where it is
Arizona Science Center is a museum near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Arizona Science Center, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.azscience.org(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Phoenix
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 39.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 19.9
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- azscience.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.4486, -112.0670
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12