Calendar

Building Wild with Nature

Explore different building stations and let your imagination soar as you use blocks, branches, bricks, stumps, twigs and logs to build habitats for both animals and your friends at locations throughout the campus. Learn more here.

Otter and Friends

Swamp Turtle Feeding

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

A Giant Leap: Exploration Beyond the Moon

This fulldome program, narrated by Tim Allen, looks back at the history of lunar exploration and then at some of the teams racing to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon and win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. See a successful launch, landing and tour of the lunar surface, and a visualization of a future settlement on the moon.

Cost: VLM members free, non-members $4 plus Museum admission

Red Wolves Enrichment

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

Legends of the Night Sky: Orion

Explore the evening sky and meet a friendly owl who spins a tale of the winter constellation Orion. Presented in dazzling laser lights, this is an exciting and often humorous version of the classic Greek legend of Orion.

Cost: VLM members free, non-members $4 plus Museum admission.

Virginia Skies

Explore the evening skies above Virginia in this classic planetarium presentation. A staff astronomer will discuss seasonal constellations as well as any planets visible. Additional topics may be explored depending on celestial happenings around the time of your visit.

Cost: VLM members free, non-members $4 plus Museum admission.

Stargazing/Laser Evening

The Virginia Living Museum offers free stargazing beginning at sunset on the second Saturday of every month. Stargazing is weather dependent. Several telescopes are set up on the grounds and staff astronomers are available to help visitors identify objects in the night sky.

Stargazing begins approximately at 7:00pm.

The evening also includes a planetarium program and several laser shows.

Shows are $3 for VLM members, $6 for non-members. Double features are $5 for VLM members and $10 for non-members.

Choose among the following shows:

• 6:30pm  Laser Vinyl
• 7:30pm  Virginia Skies
• 8:30pm  Laser Mania
• 10pm  Killer Queen
• 11:30pm  The Wall

For more information, and to purchase your non-refundable ticket, go here.