Discovery Center Museum, Rockford

About Discovery Center Museum

Discovery Center Museum's featured exhibit GROW! invites children to climb, build, and explore across three thousand square feet of nature-inspired environments. Visitors navigate the Perseverance Trail, hang notes on the Kindness Tree, make wishes at the Wishing Well, pollinate a giant flower in Bee in Sync, explore bugs in the Curiosity Corner, and center themselves by the campfire in the Mindfulness Oasis. The museum operates a makerspace where children create crafts and an outdoor Rock River Discovery Park that opens during regular hours when weather permits. Located in downtown Rockford alongside the Rockford Art Museum and Burpee Museum of Natural History, the museum houses over three hundred hands-on exhibits across more than twenty-five thousand square feet. Illinois residents receive free general admission on designated Tuesdays with valid state ID or driver's license proving residency.