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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
Dino on the Loose Walking T-Rex – Dino on the Loose! Time: 1pm (weather permitting) Location: Dinosaur Discovery Trail Join our walking T. rex for a 15 minute dinosaur parade, photo ops and a roaring good time on the Dinosaur Discovery Trail!
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.
Fright Light It’s a howling good time in the Abbitt Planetarium with this frightfully awesome mix of terror-ific tunes! Wild and weird laser images accompany songs from Black Sabbath, Garbage, The Who and so many more! Come enjoy this laser spook-tacular! Please note that a selected group of the songs listed here will be played at any given show. Your show’s playlist of family-friendly songs will be determined by your laserist. Show Playlist Thriller by Michael Jackson Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult Monster Medley by Various Artists Close Encounter of the Third Kind by John Williams Enter Sandman by Metallica Men in Black by Will Smith Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters by Weird Al Yankovic Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton Firestarter by Prodigy Dead Man’s Party by Oingo Boingo Iron Man by Black Sabbath Horror Movie Medley by Various Artists Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd Push It by Garbage Frankenstein by The Edgar Winters Group The Devil Went Down to Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band Feed my Frankenstein by Alice Cooper Purchase Fright Light tickets
Fright Light It’s a howling good time in the Abbitt Planetarium with this frightfully awesome mix of terror-ific tunes! Wild and weird laser images accompany songs from Black Sabbath, Garbage, The Who and so many more! Come enjoy this laser spook-tacular! Please note that a selected group of the songs listed here will be played at any given show. Your show’s playlist of family-friendly songs will be determined by your laserist. Show Playlist Thriller by Michael Jackson Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult Monster Medley by Various Artists Close Encounter of the Third Kind by John Williams Enter Sandman by Metallica Men in Black by Will Smith Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters by Weird Al Yankovic Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton Firestarter by Prodigy Dead Man’s Party by Oingo Boingo Iron Man by Black Sabbath Horror Movie Medley by Various Artists Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd Push It by Garbage Frankenstein by The Edgar Winters Group The Devil Went Down to Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band Feed my Frankenstein by Alice Cooper Purchase Fright Light tickets
Fright Light It’s a howling good time in the Abbitt Planetarium with this frightfully awesome mix of terror-ific tunes! Wild and weird laser images accompany songs from Black Sabbath, Garbage, The Who and so many more! Come enjoy this laser spook-tacular! Show Playlist Thriller by Michael Jackson Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult Monster Medley by Various Artists Close Encounter of the Third Kind by John Williams Enter Sandman by Metallica Men in Black by Will Smith Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters by Weird Al Yankovic Re: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton Firestarter by Prodigy Dead Man’s Party by Oingo Boingo Iron Man by Black Sabbath Horror Movie Medley by Various Artists Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd Push It by Garbage Frankenstein by The Edgar Winters Group The Devil Went Down to Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band Feed my Frankenstein by Alice Cooper Purchase Fright Light tickets