Discovery Centre’s mission is to bring STEAM to life through fun and interactive learning experiences. We are committed to leveraging our facility, people, and programming to create inclusive spaces that ignite a passion for science and discovery. We promote equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and embrace diversity. We are committed to equity in our policies, practices, and programs, support diversity in our work environment, and ensure that applications for members of underrepresented groups are considered for employment.

In the 1970s, Dr. Gerhard Stroink started developing interactive science exhibits and demonstrations as part of Dalhousie University’s open house events. So popular with the public, Dr. Richard Goldbloom, and local entrepreneur, Liz Crocker joined forces with Stroink, with the idea of establishing a true science centre, where the wonders of STEAM could take permanent residence in the hearts and minds of Nova Scotians. 

They and other volunteers continued to create new and exciting science experiences and eventually the group found their way onto the road, as a travelling science show hustled out of the back of van, bringing unique participatory science programming to communities around the province. With growing interest and support, the burgeoning Discovery Centre registered as a non-profit society in 1985, as a charitable organization in 1989, and in 1990, finally acquired the support they needed from the government, private sector, and community, to move operations off-road and into its first home in a 5000 square foot location in Scotia Square, Halifax.