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Trout Feeding

Journey to Mars

Prepare for a close approach of Mars in summer 2018 and explore NASA’s plans for getting humans to Mars in this century.

Alligator Enrichment

Enrichment activities are designed to elicit natural behaviors: to encourage the Museum’s animals to forage and work for their food, patrol their territory on the lookout for other animals, and just be more active in general.

Aviary Feeding

Did an Asteroid Really Kill the Dinosaurs?

This planetarium show explores the extinction of the dinosaurs and how an asteroid impact could have been involved.

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Summer Observatory Programs

In the Virginia Living Museum’s Abbitt Observatory, we safely view the heavens with a variety of instruments. We offer daytime observations of the Sun, as well as periodic nighttime views of the stars, planets, nebulae, galaxies and other celestial wonders.

Summer Observatory viewing is dependent on weather:

• If the sky is clear: the observatory is open from 2-3pm for solar viewing.
• If the sky is cloudy: the observatory is open from 2-3pm. Tour the observatory and learn about how we view the Sun.
• If it is raining or very wet: the observatory is closed. Join us at the How Life Survives Discovery Center on the upper level and take part in a UV Protection activity at 2pm.

Touch Tank Feeding

Virginia Skies

Tour the current skies and upcoming astronomical events in this live program.

Did an Asteroid Really Kill the Dinosaurs?

This planetarium show explores the extinction of the dinosaurs and how an asteroid impact could have been involved.

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