How the Abbitt Planetarium & Observatory Sparked a Lifetime in Astrophysics

Dr. Michael Rutkowski visits the Abbitt Planetarium at the Virginia Living Museum.

“It’s a sacred place, a planetarium. Leaving the light and sound of the day-to-day to enter a cave of darkness. You recline back and when you look up, the stars surround you.” The Abbitt Planetarium & Observatory was built with the original Virginia Living Museum building (now known as the Wason Education Center) in 1966, […]

Heads Up! The Virginia Living Museum planetarium is CLOSED today for maintenance, but will reopen tomorrow. 

Wild Explorations

Heads Up! The Changing Exhibit Gallery, where our Wild Explorations exhibit lives, will close at 3PM today in preparation for an after hours event!