Cosmosphere

Cosmosphere
Main entrance (2003)
Location within Kansas
Cosmosphere (the United States)
Established1962 (1962)
Location1100 North Plum Street
Hutchinson, KS 67501 USA
Coordinates38°03′55″N 97°55′17″W / 38.065304°N 97.921344°W / 38.065304; -97.921344
TypeSpace Museum
Collection size15,000
Visitors150,000 / year
CEOJim Remar
Websitecosmo.org

Cosmosphere is an international science education center and space museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, located on the northeast corner of Plum Street and 11th Avenue, next to the Hutchinson Community College. It was previously known as the Kansas Cosmosphere. The museum houses over 13,000 spaceflight artifacts—the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts in the world, and is home to various space educational programs.