Discovery Cube OC

A science and community exhibition museum for kids

Visible from the 5 freeway, the Discovery Cube OC is located in Santa Ana, offering children and their parents opportunities to engage with everything from astronomy, aeronautics, and physics demonstrations to marine and dinosaur exhibits, as well as a kid-sized grocery store. There’s also a simulated helicopter ride in a small movie theater, displays of holograms, and a rotating community space near the entrance for exhibits such as a local gingerbread house competition.

Discovery Cube is ideally suited to kids 12 and younger, though parents with high school-level knowledge of sciences may want to help children make sense of some of the exhibits.