Alabama Science Trail

This is the home of the Alabama Science Trial! Use this page to discover wonderful science activities all around the State of Alabama!


We are so pleased to partner with the Boy Scouts of America (https://www.scouting.org/) to create the Alabama Science Trail Passport Program. If you are a Scout, leader, or parent, click HERE!

Here are our Top 10 Science Sites in Alabama for 2020.

  • 1. U.S. Space and Rocket Center & Planetarium
  • 2. McWane Science Center, Birmingham
  • 3. Barber Motor Sports Museum, near Birmingham
  • 4. Mercedes Plant, near Tuscaloosa
  • 5. Alabama Museum of Natural History, Tuscaloosa
  • 6. State Museum of Alabama, Montgomery
  • 7. National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, and George Washington Carver Museum, Tuskegee
  • 8. Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Mobile
  • 9. Gulf Coast Exploreum, Mobile
  • 10. Archeology Museum of U. South Alabama, Mobile

Do you run one of these sites?

Do you want to recommend another site? Please email me (jstremblay@southalabama.edu) with suggestions.

The Alabama Science Trail database (with map) consists of listing of more than 85 developed locations across Alabama that have scientific interest.