MuseumsChildren’s museum & science centerAdmission
La Nube STEAM Discovery Center
Downtown Arts District
A 70,000-square-foot cloud-shaped building full of bilingual, hands-on exhibits — El Paso’s first children’s museum and science center, opened in August 2024.
Why go
- The building itself, by Snøhetta, is the most striking piece of new architecture downtown.
- Bilingual exhibits built around this specific binational community, not a shipped-in template.
- It has already taken a global children’s museum award and drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Planning notes
- Weekends and school holidays get busy — buy ahead and go at opening.
- Pair it with the art museum and the history museum; all three are within a few blocks.
More museums
El Paso Museum of Art
A serious collection — European, American, Mexican colonial and contemporary border art — with free general admission.
El Paso Museum of History
The city’s own story, plus the Digital Wall — an interactive archive of El Paso photographs you can pull apart with your hands.
El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center
A small, carefully built museum founded by a survivor who settled in El Paso.