Fresno Discovery Center

The staff is wonderful and you can tell they genuinely care about your experience there. For $24 our kids had a lot of fun for many hours and want to go back. I admit the website is not the best so here is what you can expect.-Outside sand pit (front) with shovels and toy excavators.-Indoor play area focused around STEM (building, colors, nanoparticles, pneumatic tube's, magnetics)-Outdoor bunny cage (they brought one out so we could pet it)-Outdoor koi pond with turtles and free food to give them-Scavenger hunt (kids get a small prize after)-Multiple gardens-Playground equipment and an old NASA shuttle you can sit inIt's a great place and good mix of science and nature, which I loved. Very large area too so a great walk outside with the kiddos.Please go there and experience it and please donate if possible (Venmo) to keep this place going. They deserve it and more places like this should exist for kids.

The Fresno Discovery Center isn't much to look at when you first pull up, but I was very surprised at the amount of activities and different play stations they have set up here. My daughter really loved the main entrance play area filled with a mini grocery store, a fake apple picking tree to help learn colors, and a mini fossil digging station. It was still raining when we arrived so we explored all of the indoor space first. The magnetic and movement station was my daughter's favorite. She loved trying to the magnetic to stick together on the moving wheel. We both liked the live turtle enclosure with some baby tortoises, but she hated the hissing cockroaches. We finally made our way outside and checked out the koi pond, where my daughter fed the fish, and checked out the tortoise enclosure. The workers were surprised he was out. They told me he'd been hibernating since November and hadn't been since. They have a lot of space outside for kids to run around and a small playground area. This would be an awesome place for a kids birthday party. The main focus here is science and hands on discovery stations. I love that they're getting kids excited about learning through interactive demos. Currently they have a "women in science" section with local scientists featured.All of this only $6! My daughter is two so she got for free. Not a bad deal!

Fresno Discovery Center is one of the few places where I can take my son and I know that he'll have a great time. They have a lot of cute activities inside and outside and we love walking and exploring the nearby gardens. The staff is always friendly and location is clean. I just wish they were open for longer hours throughout the week.

The Fresno discovery Center is pretty OK we went when there was a lot of kids on a field trip so it was super packed and busy. when we got here the parking it seems like we had to park on the side street. The parking is a two hour limit . we went on a Friday and the hours is 9-1:00 pm. they had a lot of stuff for kids to do, but it seems very crowded and very chaotic because the place is actually really small . The prices was general admission $6 for adults and then children 2 and under were free I really like how they have benches here so that we can sit and watch our kids play! They have a lot of stations like a Lego train station! they have an outside play area and they even have bunnies today. They have a lot of benches for kids to eat and it seems like they have a lot of field trips for elementary schools to come.this place is really cool and I would recommend coming here if you have an hour and a half downtime hahaha

We totally enjoyed our time here at this discovery center. The staff were very nice and friendly.I must say that it is a bit rundown and may need some renovations to make it look more modern, but regardless my 6 yrs old son really enjoyed his time here. We actually spent around 2 hours just exploring and playing. It's not a very big place but it's entertaining enough to keep your curiosity. The fee to get in is very reasonable and well worth it.If you have young kids that you want to entertain for few hours, I'd recommend this place.

Such a great place to take your kids for the day. Tons of activities and things to see. We loved the science room, and all the turtles and tortoises, and especially the outdoor area leading to the community gardens next door. The cons were that a good handful of interactive activities were not working and it wasn't the cleanest kids museum were been to. Also maybe some music would be nice it can be quietly uncomfortable. But we'd definitely visit again cus my little loved it

Such a hidden gem in Fresno! And for a photographer, a dream come true for an out of the ordinary location. Gorgeous lay out of some incredible cactus's and a fun way to enjoy in a short walk through their garden! Definitely worth the drive to visit

It would be nice if they would update/ fix the activity areas. Most of them are broken or missing parts.

How did I just found out about this place?! I wanted to take my toddler out somewhere neat and my husband suggested this place. He went here before as a kid, but it's my first time coming here. Definitely a cool place to check out because my daughter enjoyed it very much. In the front of the center there are large size dinosaurs displays. If your kid love dinosaurs, they will get a kick out of it seeing it in person. After you pay you even get a small 4 oz cup of fish food to feed the fish and turtles outside in their pond area. My toddler loved it. You can explore the outdoor area where there is a whisper disc, worm box area, tortoise, etc. Also an clean restroom outside for people. Inside the discovery center, there are quite a few activities for the kids. Little kitchen area, ball activity, Lego area, assembly ball fall activity, fire truck station, science area, and reptile room. At one point , one of the staff will read a book to the kids and will bring out a reptile to show the kids. They showed a snake and the kids got to come up and touch it if they want. Great place to burn some time with your little ones.

We took our two toddlers here and for getting charged $6 each for all of us ($18) total, I would think the workers could at least burry the fossils again for the kids to dig up or move around a little and talk to people. Most of the speakers on the machines do not work. The workers arent demonstrating how anything works. The workers are nice, I'm just hoping my constructive criticism can help give them feedback for potential change.