Gates Foundation Discovery Center

Gates Foundation Discovery Center The Gates Foundation Discovery Center features interactive exhibits and ways to take action on causes you care about. Free for all. Thank you!
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At the Gates Foundation Discovery Center, we hope to educate, inspire, and motivate people by sharing stories of work that is improving lives, from Seattle to South Africa. Through our interactive exhibits, visitors can investigate some of the world’s tough challenges and learn how to act on their own ideas and solutions. We encourage respectful and constructive dialogue. Below are the general com

munity guidelines that allow us to interact productively and respectfully as a community. These reflect the Facebook Community Standards (https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/); therefore, content and comments that break any of the following will be removed:

#1 Rule: Treat each other with respect. You can debate points without disrespecting your fellow community members. Do not harass or degrade others. What We Do Not Allow:
- Profane, defamatory, offensive, or violent language
- “Trolling”, or posting deliberately disruptive statements meant to hijack comment threads or throw discussions off-track
- Multiple postings from the same person with the same content meant to spam the page
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- Acknowledgement of intent to stalk an individual or collect private information without disclosure
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- Content that relates to confidential or proprietary business information
- Content determined to be inappropriate, in poor taste, or otherwise contrary to the purposes of the forum
- Personal promotion
- Links to dubious websites or content containing misinformation

We appreciate our community and look forward to great conversations in our comments.

05/19/2026

Researchers are designing varieties of these crops that stand up to changing climates, helping smallholder farmers grow more, increase their incomes, and feed their communities. Tell us how many you got right in the comments below ⤵️

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Update 📣 The Discovery Center is moving to an appointment-only model for visitors. Book a free group tour to learn about...
03/09/2026

Update 📣 The Discovery Center is moving to an appointment-only model for visitors. Book a free group tour to learn about global health innovations and powerful stories of the Gates Foundation’s partners working to fight the world’s greatest inequities.

Arrive curious. Leave inspired.

Book a group tour ➡️ https://www.discovergates.org/group-tours/

01/28/2026

Patrick from our Discovery Center was in Davos talking about the future of health!

Book a group or school tour of the Discovery Center to learn more about innovations like these that have the potential to save and improve millions of lives.

01/22/2026

Investing in women and girls doesn’t just strengthen families—it strengthens communities and entire economies.

This installation by shows how care, capital, and contraceptives all play a part in helping women across the globe shape their own futures.

12/19/2025

Last chance! See the pop-up exhibition, “Of all the People in All the World: Invest in Women, Multiply the Returns,” on view at the Discovery Center today and tomorrow, Dec 19-20!

By turning data into art, this installation by uses grains of rice to represent people, showing a powerful picture of opportunity. Free to visit.

Address

440 5th Avenue N
Seattle, WA
98109

Opening Hours

Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

(206) 709-3100

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