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 Logo of the Liberty Science Center | |
 Exterior of Liberty Science Center | |
  Location of Liberty Science Center in New Jersey | |
| Established | January 24, 1993 |
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| Location | Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey, US |
| Coordinates | 40°42′30″N 74°03′15″W / 40.708312°N 74.054246°W |
| Type | Science museum |
| Visitors | 750,000 per year[1] |
| President & CEO | Paul Hoffman |
| Chairperson | David Barry/John Weston |
| Public transit access | Liberty State Park station, Hudson–Bergen Light Rail |
| Nearest parking | On-site (daily charge) |
| Website | lsc |
Liberty Science Center is an interactive science museum and learning center located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. At its opening, it was the largest such planetarium in the Western Hemisphere and the world's fourth largest.[2]
The center, which opened in 1993 as New Jersey's first major state science museum, has science exhibits, numerous educational resources, and the original Hoberman sphere, a silver, computer-driven engineering artwork designed by Chuck Hoberman.
- ^ "About Liberty Science Center".
- ^ Barron, James (December 6, 2017). "Planetarium Opens in New Jersey, Ushering in a New Kind of Star Wars". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
That may or may not explain the debut of the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth largest in the world. It opens this week in Jersey City. The top scientist responsible for it, Paul Hoffman, the president and chief executive officer of the Liberty Science Center, boasted that it was so large that the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, the starry destination for generations of middle-school field trippers, would fit inside with room to spare.