Museum of Science & Industry

The planetarium shows at Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) are truly a stellar experience! The newly upgraded Saunders Planetarium boasts an impressive 82-foot dome, making it the second-largest in the country. Equipped with state-of-the-art 8K projection technology, it offers breathtaking visuals of the cosmos. The 45-minute shows combine live guided tours of the night sky with captivating space science films, providing both education and entertainment for all ages. Whether you're a budding astronomer or just curious about the universe, these shows are a must-see when visiting MOSI.

I visited the Museum with a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old. Overall, it was a good experience. The museum has a variety of interactive exhibits that the kids really enjoyed, especially the ones where they could touch and explore. The exhibits were interesting and educational, though some of them could use a bit of updating. The space was family-friendly, and we felt comfortable throughout the visit. Definitely a fun place to spend a few hours with young children. Would recommend if you're in the area

First visit. This place needs work and to have major upgrades done. Everything’s outdated. Not a lot of fun to be had here. The outside lawn area was the nicest part to look at. Where is the museum?

This place was really fun for my kids ranging from 9 to 16. We enjoyed the brain waves game more than anything there. They also lived the brain teaser stands and were there a lot. They offer a military discount as well for the entire family not just single person.

This museum was so bad, just awful. We went here for a school field trip for 2nd graders. The museum sold our school on the butterfly exhibit by saying how cool and interactive it was. We'll it rained that day so we didn't get to do it. Even if we did, the butterfly exhibit was about the size of 1 classroom and we had several hundred kids, so still not worth it. In the main area, the kids somewhat had fun but they definitely weren't thrilled, there's only so much you can do there til it's boring. As for the rest of the museum, their dinosaur "exhibit" was 1 metal replica of a skeleton and a few small replicas of skulls. Extremely underwhelming. Their next "exhibit" was a really long hallway with 14"x14" (yes inches) pictures on the wall about every 6 feet. Again, very underwhelming. Mind you, we had to spend and entire 3 hours at this museum til the bus picked us up so we tried to make the best of it. Many of the kids asked when it was going to be over, can we leave yet, when are we getting to the fun part, is this really the field trip, this is boring.. they were even sitting down up against the wall because they were so bored so we had to try end entertain the kids ourselves by having a race, playing bubble gum bubble gum in a dish with our feet. When the 3 hours were finally up, the kids were very excited to leave. I would never recommend this museum unless it was completely free. Even at that, I honestly still wouldn't recommend it. You can have much more fun going to a park and having a picnic.