OMSI AT A GLANCE
OMSI is 219,000 square feet of brain-powered fun! Five enormous halls bring science to life with hundreds of interactive exhibits and displays. You can experience an earthquake, take part in lab demonstrations, see a movie in the OMNIMAX Dome Theater, explore the universe in the planetarium and even tour a real submarine.
Winter Hours of Operation
Open Tuesday-Sunday from 9:30 a.m.—5:30 p.m.
Open Mondays that Portland Public Schools are closed.
Admission Prices
Adult: $11 • Youth: $9 • Senior (63+): $9 • Members: Free
Address
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
1945 SE Water Ave.
Portland, OR 97214-3354
503-797-4000 or 800-955-OMSI (6674)
info@omsi.edu
Getting Here
Please visit Google Maps for driving instructions from your location. Parking is $2 for nonmembers. Several TriMet bus routes pass near OMSI. Additionally, the OMSI TriMet Shuttle makes 10 minute trips to OMSI from the Convention Center MAX station now through September 12, 2009, 9:30 a.m.—7:30 p.m. For information, please call TriMet customer service at 503.238.RIDE or visit the TriMet website. You can use their online Trip Planner to find the best route from your location to OMSI.
Featured Exhibit
Space: A Journey To Our Future
Now open through May 31, 2010
Through immersive environments, interactive experiences, 3-D displays and multi-media, visitors will experience firsthand the present and future of human spaceflight in Space: A Journey To Our Future. Exhibit highlights include a tour of a full scale future lunar habitat, an opportunity to create your own mission to Mars, and information about NASA's new spacecraft that will take us back to the Moon and beyond.
OMNIMAX Theater
With a five-story domed screen and 30-degree stadium seating, the OMNIMAX Dome Theater launches viewers into the midst of a cinematic experience unlike any other in the Portland metropolitan area. Images are projected onto the 79-food wide, 10,000 square foot screen with a fish-eye lens, surrounding the audience and covering most of the viewer's peripheral vision with breathtaking views of unsurpassed size and powerful impact.
Current shows include: Deep Sea, Bugs!, Adrenaline Rush, Dinosaurs Alive and Roving Mars.
Kendall Planetarium
OMSI's Harry C. Kendall Planetarium, a 200-seat, 52-foot domed theater, is the largest and most technologically advanced public planetarium in the Pacific Northwest. The planetarium serves as the cornerstone of numerous astronomy events each year, including occasional public broadcasts of NASA events.
The planetarium's advanced technology enables our talented in-house production team to create shows on a major scale, and lets viewers experience more creative and educational astronomy and laser light shows than ever before.
Current plantearium shows include: Stars, Starry Nights Live!, and Ice Worlds.
Current laser light shows include: Laser Space Odyssey, Laser Michael Jackson, Laser Greenday / Offspring, and Laser Pink Floyd: The Vision Bell.
USS Blueback Submarine
The USS Blueback (SS581) is one of the most modern U.S. submarines on public display anywhere in the country. She was the last fast-attack, diesel-powered sub built by the U.S. Navy. At the time of her launch in 1959, she was the last non-nuclear powered sub built by the Navy, and the last to be decommissioned after serving her country for 31 years. The ship was decommissioned in October 1990. It was opened to the public in May 1994 at OMSI, and is on permanent display at OMSI's dock on the east side of the Willamette River.
Visitors can climb aboard the sub with hourly tours and experience what life was like for the men who lived and worked on the boat. Kids can also spend the night on board the sub as part of OMSI's camp-in program.
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