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LOCATION

Located on the B-Line Trail in the vibrant Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District, WonderLab is convenient to Indiana University, the Convention Center, and downtown hotels, shops, restaurants, galleries and other attractions. To help plan your visit, click here for information about all of Bloomington's fascinating museums and here for more general information about visiting the Bloomington area. Visitor services staff at the WonderLab welcome desk can provide information about nearby shops and restaurants.

HOURS

Tuesday-Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Open extended evening hours until 8:30 pm the first Friday of the month
Closed Mondays and some major holidays
WonderLab is located in the Eastern Time Zone where Daylight Savings Time is observed.

The museum is open special evening hours several times throughout the year, most notably the first Friday evening of each month. See calendar. Please call ahead for special hours that may be in effect during holidays.

 

ADMISSION

Members	FREE
ASTC Passport Participants	FREE
Children Under 1 year	FREE
Child, age 1-17	$6.00
Adult, age 18+	$7.00

Children younger than 12-years-old must be accompanied by a responsible person, age 16 or older.

Discounted rates available for groups of 10 or more. Two-week advance reservation required. Certain non-profit groups may qualify for Connecting to the Community funds.

WonderLab accepts cash, check (with appropriate i.d.), Discover, MasterCard and VISA.

 

PARKING & BUS

Free On-Street Parking
Monday - Saturday: 5 am - 5 pm with a two-hour limit on any one block

Free unlimited parking as follows: Sunday | Monday - Saturday after 5 pm

Public Parking Garages (P on map)
Two public parking garages are close to WonderLab.

Garage Art
Location: Two blocks east of WonderLab at Fourth & Walnut Streets.
System: Metered spaces ($.50/hour) during enforcement hours. You must have coins to "feed" the meter when meter parking is enforced.
Enforcement Hours: Monday - Friday until 5 pm. Metered spaces and permit parking spaces are free during evening hours and on weekends. The gate to the permit parking spaces will be up during these free periods.

Garage Market
Location: Three blocks north of WonderLab at Seventh and College Streets.
System: Flexible parking ticket with payment calculated when you leave the garage.
Enforcement Hours: This system is in effect daily for the full 24 hours.

Handicap Parking
There is one free handicapped parking space in front of WonderLab with a four-hour limit. There are eight additional such spaces in both public parking garages.

City of Bloomington downtown parking maps and information.

Public Transportation
Bloomington Transit provides bus service convenient to the museum. The museum is a stop on Routes 3 and 4 West, and is three blocks west of the main downtown bus depot. City of Bloomington bus services information.

HIGH VISITATION

This information is provided as a service to those who wish to plan their visits around periods when large groups are scheduled to visit WonderLab. The period when the museum is most crowded is during the spring, when lots of school groups visit. Even during the spring, though, the museum is usually quiet by mid-afternoon, and the Wednesday morning preschool program, Discovery Time, is not affected because it takes place away from the school-age children in a Lab Room or in the garden. Please note that we cannot predict when large groups without advance reservations might arrive.

75+ Visitors in Groups Expected (building capacity: 360)

Tuesday, March 2 - morning
Friday, March 5 - 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Friday, March 12 - morning
Friday, March 19 - morning
Tuesday, March 23 - 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Tuesday, March 30 - morning


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