Don Harrington Discovery Center


Sadly you can't inhale any helium and talk like Donald Duck, but the lighter-than-air gas that was an Amarillo industry is honored at the Don Harrington Discovery Center. Aquariums, a planetarium and science exhibits (including a good one on birds of prey) round out a visit.


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