Science City at Union Station is a family-friendly interactive science center that features acclaimed traveling exhibitions, The Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium, City Extreme Screen theatre, and more than 120 hands-on displays.It is located inside Union Station at 30 West Pershing Road in Kansas City, Missouri.BackgroundScience City was part of a renovation plan for Union Station after being closed for a short period of time when Trizec, a Canadian redevelopment firm had failed to redevelop the station. It opened in November 1999.Science City is where play and education go hand-in-hand providing some real hands-on fun.