All Hands-On Science
Summer Exhibit Our Planet: Past, present, & future presents how we know what we have learned about our home planet and what has changed over time. Explore with us our...
Sessions begin April 29, 2020. Sign-up still open. Register today! This program is for prospective, but not current scouts, aged 7 through 9. Join...
High School volunteers Teen volunteers are critical to the operations of the MESS Hall. They serve as the face of the museum, assisting visitors...
Virtual Field Trips Our field trips are going virtual! We’ll be broadcasting live, from our homes, demonstrating hands-on activities, and helping you follow along...
What will you and your kids do together to learn over the next few weeks? The MESS Hall gift shop has great toys, games,...
The Pensacola MESS Hall is not a typical science museum. Rather than exhibits with planned outcomes, visitors get to work like real scientists, developing questions and creating experiments, engaging in complex reasoning and learning science just through tinkering. It’s all hands-on science. Learn more.
We are located at 116 N. Tarragona St. in downtown Pensacola, right behind Caldwell Associated Architects. (Need directions?)
The Pensacola MESS Hall’s school year hours of operation are 12pm to 5pm Tuesday through Friday and 10am to 5pm Saturday. Admission is $10 per person, or free with a family membership.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
— Thomas A. Edison
The Pensacola MESS Hall’s school year hours of operation are 12pm to 5pm Tuesday through Friday and 10am to 5pm Saturday. Admission is $10 per person, or free with a family membership.
Design your own marble racetrack and race your friends! The same track pieces and tubes can have very different results depending on angles and other factors. It's a great hands-on demonstration of physics concepts like acceleration and velocity, and it's just one of many permanent exhibits at the Pensacola MESS Hall.
