Fresno Discovery Center

About Fresno Discovery Center

Fresno Discovery Center in Fresno, California provides hands-on STEAM experiences exploring topics from dinosaurs to outer space. Visitors engage with indoor exhibits designed to spark curiosity through interactive learning activities. The facility includes 5.5 acres of outdoor grounds featuring Walden Pond, home to turtles, crawdads, and fish, along with live animals and play areas. The historic Deutsch Cactus Garden displays hundreds of unique and rare cacti and succulents from the American Southwest and Mexico. The Garden of the Sun, maintained by Master Gardeners, offers additional outdoor exploration. Regular programming includes Sensory Sundays, Music Mondays, and Saturday Science sessions. The center hosts birthday parties and offers field trips designed for elementary and middle school groups, as well as homeschool groups, with both on-site and off-site options. Summer camp programs for kindergarten through fifth grade students feature agricultural activities, science experiments, and nature exploration.