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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.

The Great Planet Adventures

With muscles and bones made on Earth, you’ll be a super star on the solar system’s low-gravity worlds. Imagine zip lining on the scorched Mercury or snowmobiling when it really snows on Pluto. Bungee jumping into outer space from an asteroid is like low-g diving from the tallest cliff or rappelling into deepest canyon in the solar system. Without gravity’s strong pull, you can glide over the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, jet-pack in a geyser’s spray on Triton, or even drive a monster truck along a steep lunar crater wall.

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

Trout Feeding

Snapping Turtle 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.

Horseshoe Crab Feeding

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.

Every Animal has a Story

A special chance to walk the outdoor trail at the end of the day with our senior animal care staff & learn why & how our animals ended up with a new life at the living museum. Injured, orphaned, born in captivity or rescued as an illegal pet, every animal does have a special story & this is our opportunity to share it with the public.

Tours last 45 minutes.

Cost: $12 VLM members, $14 non-members (museum admission is not included).

Age: 4 and above

Maximum in Group: 12 guests

Buy Tickets Now or call 757-595-1900

(Note: Members must show membership card.)