EveryMuseum.com - COSI Columbus

For the past 40 years, COSI has helped children, families, and educators understand their world and inspired them to learn more about it.

COSI Columbus is one of the most respected science centers in the nation, serving 18 million visitors since 1964. Over these four decades, COSI has continued to create programs and experiences that make science fun, while empowering and engaging visitors through hands-on discovery. COSI is one of the most visited attractions in Franklin county, Ohio, and its annual attendance is among the highest in the country for similar size markets. The name "COSI" stands for Center of Science and Industry.

At COSI, you'll be dazzled, amazed and delighted as your family explores one incredible wonder after another. COSI features more than 300 interactive exhibits throughout our discovery-based and themed exhibition areas – Ocean, Space Gadgets, Life, little kidspace®, Progress and our outdoor Big Science Park. The exhibition areas provide experiences for all age levels to creatively combine science facts and learning through play. The COSI Team loves to perform, entertain, and educate through our outstanding live shows and demonstrations including our hair-raising Electrostatic Generator Show! Beyond the exhibits, you'll find the only High-Wire Unicycle in the country, a seven-story Extreme Screen theater, a Science 2Go! retail store and the Atomicafe' restaurant. COSI also hosts world-class traveling exhibitions from other museums throughout the year.

COSI's groundbreaking, award-winning education programs have touched more than five million teachers and students. These innovative outreach education programs are tailored to support national and statewide science curriculum and standards. Unique programs such as Electronic Education and COSI On Wheels bring science learning to students throughout Ohio and across the country. Camp-In®, an overnight experience for Girl Scouts that began 34 years ago, is now duplicated nationwide.

In 1999, COSI moved to a new location in downtown Columbus at 333 West Broad Street. Internationally renowned architect Arata Isozaki designed the 320,000 square foot building.