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With all the changing exhibits, performers and activities, Discovery Center is a place you’ll want to visit with your family again and again. Join today and you and your family will begin receiving valuable benefits all year long.
Membership Benefits
With the purchase of all memberships you receive the following benefits:
- Free admission to Discovery Center during regular Museum hours
- Free admission to participating Association of Science & Technology Centers (ASTC) Download list of ASTC members.
- Invitations to special member’s only events
- Discounts on birthday parties
- Discounts on classes and workshops
- 10% discount at our Discoveries to Go! gift shop
- A one year subscription to our newsletter, Discover, mailed to you three times each year
Membership Categories
Family SuperPass: $100 (2 year membership $190)
- Two adults and your own children under the age of 18
- Free admission to participating Association of Children's Museum (ACM) organizations and ASTC members. (Many in the greater Chicago area!)
Family: $60 (2 year membership $110)
Two adults and your own children under the age of 18
Grand Pass: $55 (2 year membership $100)
Two grandparents and all of your grandchildren under the age of 18
Individual: $30 (2 year membership $50)
Become a Member
Call 815-963-6769 to enroll or if you prefer, download and print a Membership Application Form and mail it to us.
Fill out our online Membership Application Form
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Prisms separate the colors that make white light. Glass prisms bend light, spread it out, and reflect it, the same way water drops do when they make rainbows. Learn more about prisms in our Color and Light exhibit.


