From weddings and banquets to corporate meetings, we’ve mastered the art of making any gathering unforgettable. Let us know what you’re celebrating and we’ll make it a blast!
Centrally located in downtown Fort Lauderdale
Accommodates up to 2,000 guests
Event planning expert to advise on logistics and customization of space
To plan your next event please email facilityrental@mods.org or call Facility Rental at 954.713.0930 for more information.
Event Spaces
Event Spaces
Event Spaces
Parties & Shindigs!
Virtual Tour
See The Venues Available for your Next Event!
Pan, pinch and zoom your way through event rental spaces from the palm of your hand. Check out areas you can use and start making plans for a time to remember.
To plan your next event please email facilityrental@mods.org or call Facility Rental at 954.713.0930 for more information.
IMAX® AutoNation® Theater
Private IMAX Experiences
On The Largest Movie Screen in South Florida
Treat your guests to an exclusive IMAX® experience in the AutoNation® IMAX 3D Theater. Enjoy a film in the most technologically advanced private screening room. Get custom packages designed for your corporate function, team building or staff recognition event, holiday party, anniversary, birthday party, bar or bat mitzvah or if you simply want to have fun.
Please call Facility Rental at 954.713.0930 or email facilityrental@mods.org to plan your next event or for more information.
Private IMAX® Theater Screening
Enjoy a private movie experience in the IMAX® Theater for an exclusive private screening! Select the currently showing Hollywood movie or choose from our library of 45-minute documentary films. Boost your experience with a prepaid concessions snack pack that includes a choice of soda, popcorn or boxed candy.
Private IMAX® Theater Screening with Reception
Throw a private reception in the Museum before or after the show including access to hands-on exhibits and several ride experiences! Food and beverages can be provided by one of our preferred caterers and you can add to the experience with a prepaid concessions snack pack that includes your choice of soda, popcorn or boxed candy.
Birthday Parties
Throw a Very Happy Birthday
The Perfect Formula for Having Fun!
Planning a birthday party at MODS is a piece of cake. Just say the word and we’ll help you put the wheels in motion for a celebration your child will always remember. Offered for children ages 3-12, you can choose from exciting themed programs that include age-appropriate science activities, Museum exhibits exploration, birthday cake, pizza and beverages and more. Ask our guest experience representative how you can give your child an unforgettable Museum birthday party!
Select Option:
Ultimate Birthday Party (Before/After Hours)
Scientastic Birthday (During Regular Museum Hours)
Before/After Hours Dates and Times:
Fridays
5:30 p.m.
Saturdays
8 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Sundays
10 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Before/After Hours Pricing:
Members: $1,200
Non-members: $1,250
Includes 30 guests
Per additional person (over 30 guests): $24
Note: Maximum 30 children per party. Maximum 50 guests total
Includes four (4) cheese pizzas
Includes six (6) two-liter bottles
During Regular Museum Hours Dates and Times:
Saturdays
10 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
Sundays
12:30 p.m.
3 p.m.
During Regular Museum Hours Pricing:
Members: $550
Non-members: $575
Includes 20 guests
Per additional person (over 20 guests): $16
Note: Maximum 30 children per party. Maximum 50 guests total
Includes two (2) cheese pizzas
Includes three (3) two-liter bottles
Add-Ons (price per person):
Additional Pizza (Cheese or Pepperoni): $22
Additional Cake: $40
Additional Soda: $4
IMAX Film: $12
Pinata (per party): $75
Nitro Cloud Demonstration (per party): $75
Private Makerspace Session (up to 30 attendees): $200
Add a Second Theme:
Before/After Hours Parties:
Additional Animal Mania Theme: $275
Additional Dinosaur Adventure or Slime Time Celebration Theme**
Non-members: $450
Members: $400
**Requires a second time slot. Total party time: 3 hours.
Regular Hours Parties:
Additional Animal Mania Theme: $275
Additional Dinosaur Adventure or Slime Time Celebration Theme**
Non-members: $425
Members: $400
**Requires a second time slot. Total party time: 3 hours.
For additional questions, please contact our dedicated party planner at 954.713.0930 or email booking@mods.org to create your birthday experience!
For FAQs about Birthday Parties at MODS, click here!
For Birthday Party Theme Options, keep scrolling. To book a Birthday Party at MODS now, please fill out the form below!
Animal Mania (Ages 3 & up) Meet the Museum’s reptiles face-to-face and have a “wild encounter” with turtles, lizards and snakes! It’s perfect for “party animals” of all ages!
Dinosaur Adventure (Ages 3 & up) Become a Junior paleontologist and dig for dinosaur eggs while exploring volcanic eruptions in our excavation boxes! Make a dinosaur mask and get ready to go on a fun-filled prehistoric learning adventure. Complete your special day by adding on our IMAX film: Dinosaurs of Antarctica or Dino Dana The Movie!
Slime Time Celebration (Ages 3 & Up) Throw the ultimate party that oozes birthday fun! This ooey-gooey adventure includes three slime types and the opportunity to customize your creation at the birthday slime bar. Get ready to have a gooey time!
For additional questions, please contact our dedicated party planner at 954.713.0930 or email booking@mods.org to create your birthday experience!
For FAQs about Birthday Parties at MODS, click here!
To book a Birthday Party at MODS, please fill out the form below!
Keep the good times rolling and reserve The Hangar, our high-tech Makerspace, for a 30-minute time slot immediately following your birthday party. The Hangar is a fusion of a science lab, engineering workshop and art room. It’s designed to accommodate a wide range of collaborative activities, from robotics and electronics to 3D printing. Within your 30-minute session, activities will be age-appropriate and related to the birthday lab activities. (Up to 30 attendees per session.)
To book a Birthday Party at MODS, please fill out the form below!
For FAQs about Birthday Parties at MODS, click here!
For additional questions, please contact our dedicated party planner at 954.713.0930 or email booking@mods.org to create your birthday experience!
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This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode
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This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
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This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
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This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
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Accessibility Statement
mods.org
June 9, 2023
Compliance status
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience,
regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level.
These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible
to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific
disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML,
adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with
screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive
a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements,
alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website.
In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels;
descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups),
and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag
for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology.
To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on
as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Disability profiles supported in our website
Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.
Browser and assistive technology compatibility
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Notes, comments, and feedback
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
Planning a birthday party at MODS is a piece of cake. Just say the word and we’ll help you put the wheels in motion for a celebration your child will always remember. Offered for children ages 3-12, you can choose from exciting themed programs that include age-appropriate science activities, Museum exhibits exploration, birthday cake, pizza and beverages and more. Ask our guest experience representative how you can give your child an unforgettable Museum birthday party!
