Discovery Station
United States · Americas
About
Discovery Station, is a hands-on, family-friendly museum originally located in downtown Hagerstown, Maryland, United States that opened to the public in 2005. In the fall of 2025, the museum moved to Cascade, Maryland. The museum's focus is to create an environment that stimulates curiosity for discovery, exploration, and further investigation through exhibits and programs that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) principles. The museum is a member of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and the NASA Museum Alliance.
Until August 2025, the museum was located in a historic bank building across from the Washington County Courthouse. The original bank housed the Federal Depository during the Civil War. Visitors can enter the main vault and examine its mammoth leaded glass door and mechanisms. With its white marble exterior and soaring palladium windows, the building is one of the most architecturally significant in downtown Hagerstown.
Discovery Station is visited by thousands of visitors each year and is especially popular with children.
The Museum was visited by 25,380 visitor in 2019
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