Science centers are institutions for the promotion of informal science learning to students and the public (Oppenheimer, 1972; Danilov, 1982; Tan & Subramaniam, 1998; Delacote, 1998). They have come to be regarded as part of a nation’s scientific, technological, and educational infrastructure. Science centers promote their mission objectives in a number of ways: exhibitions on a range of themes, science enrichment programs that complement science lessons taught in schools, mass-based promotional activities such as science festivals and competitions, and so on. However, exhibitions remain the core and distinctive feature of the attractions in science centers.
Science enrichment through informal science. Final report