CLEVELAND (January 14, 2025) – For the fourth consecutive year, Great Lakes Science Center has been nominated by the editors at USA Today’s 10Best for a 2025 10Best Readers’ Choice travel award for Best Science Museum and needs your help to be voted into the top spot!
 
The Science Center has been nominated in the field of the top 20 science museums from around the country. The polls are open at the 10Best website and fans of the Science Center can vote once per day for the duration of the contest. Voting ends at noon EST on Wednesday, February 10. Visit the Science Center's page at 10Best.com to cast your ballot. 
 
Show your Cleveland pride and help the Science Center make it to number one this year by choosing it for Best Science Museum. After you vote, come out and see what is new at the Science Center. With new exhibits celebrating Northeastern Ohio innovation in the Cleveland Creates Gallery, our current special exhibition, Dogs! A Science Tail, and all the exhibits in the NASA Glenn Visitor Center, the Science Center is a fun and inspiring destination for the entire family.
 
Looking forward to summer? Registration for exciting new STEM summer camps are open for this year’s Camp Curiosity and we are hard at work on a new summer exhibit celebrating the 100th year of the Steamship William G. Mather that takes a closer look at the history and future of Great Lakes shipping.
 
(Editor’s note: The Science Center’s winter hours are Tuesday – Wednesday and Friday - Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.)

About Great Lakes Science Center

Great Lakes Science Center is one of the top ten museums in the nation as celebrated by the 2024 USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice travel award for Best Science Museum. The Science Center hosted Total Eclipse Fest in 2024, one of the largest free eclipse events in the country, and is home to the NASA Glenn Visitor Center. The Science Center makes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) come alive for more than 300,000 visitors a year through hundreds of hands-on exhibits, temporary exhibitions, the Cleveland Clinic DOME Theater, historic Steamship William G. Mather, daily science demonstrations, seasonal camps and more. The Science Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit institution, earned a 2023 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid, a leading provider of insight and data about the non-profit world. The Science Center is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Visit GreatScience.comfor more information.