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Butterfly Haven 2024 Butterfly Haven Guests will experience the beauty of the seasonal BUTTERFLY HAVEN, a 14′ wide x 10′ tall x 14′ long butterfly enclosure located alongside the Virginia Garden just outside the Wason Education Center. The exciting new exhibit will engage guests of all ages as they immerse themselves in a world of butterflies and plants! The house will support the Museum’s conservation efforts to preserve pollinating species such as the Monarch Butterfly. The initiative also supports education and awareness for the challenged annual Monarch butterfly migration due to deforestation in Mexico, extreme climate fluctuations in North America, and the growth of herbicide-based agriculture destroying crucial milkweed flora in the Midwest. Cost: included in museum admission
September 14: Stargazing Night Cost: Members $5, non-members $8 per show. Virginia Skies Time: 6pm A live guided tour of the current evening sky with a staff astronomer. Recommended for all ages. Virginia Skies tickets Hypnotica Time: 7pm Techno and lasers – perfect together. Join us for a body-shaking laser experience with pulsing beats, dazzling lights, and incredibly imagery. Featuring bands like The Crystal Method, Delerium, Faithless and many more. This program is family-friendly: Inappropriate song lyrics have been eliminated or blanked. Show Playlist Trip Like I Do by the Crystal Method Love Island by Fat Boy Slim Insomnia by Faithless Narayan by Prodigy Joga by Björk Silence by Delerium Music: Response by The Chemical Brothers Acid 8000 by Fat Boy Slim Comin’ Back by The Crystal Method Setting Sun by the Chemical Brothers Hypnotica tickets Laser Pink Floyd: The Vision Bell Time: 8:30 pm Recommended: ages 15 and above Inspired by the release of 1994’s “The Division Bell,” this Pink Floyd laser show combines their most recent material with some of their oldest. Some of these songs contain lyrics some parents may find objectionable. Please be aware that volume levels during our Pink Floyd program will be high and the imagery can be intense. Show Playlist Keep Talking One Slip Astronomy Domine Any Colour You Like Brain Damage Eclipse Have a Cigar Wish You Were Here Another Brick in the Wall (Part I) The Happiest Days of Our Lives Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) Hey You Is There Anybody Out There? Pigs on the Wing (Part II) One of These Days Hero’s Return The Vision Bell tickets Pink Floyd's The Wall Time: 10pm Recommended: ages 15 and above The Wall is best considered as a continual story rather than a collection of individual songs. It tells the tale of a rock star named Pink and his downward spiral into madness. To the listener, and indeed many critics, The Wall is a gripping and spellbinding musical journey – beautiful, haunting, powerful and thought provoking. It is a timeless classic, and one of Pink Floyd’s best, becoming the group’s second best seller behind Dark Side of the Moon. Now coupled with spectacular and mesmerizing laser art, Pink Floyd’s classic 1979 epic about personal struggle takes on a unique look, weaving its story in one of the most popular laser shows ever produced! Visitors will become lost and spellbound as their senses join this timeless journey. Some of these songs contain lyrics some parents may find objectionable. Please be aware that volume levels during our Pink Floyd program will be high and the imagery can be intense. Show Playlist In the Flesh The Thin Ice Another Brick in the Wall (Part I) The Happiest Days of Our Lives Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) Mother Goodbye Blue Sky Empty Spaces Young Lust Another Brick in the Wall (Part III) Hey You Comfortably Numb Stop The Trial The Wall Tickets Warning: Please be advised that laser shows contain bright, sometimes flashing lights and loud music. This experience is not recommended for guests who are highly sensitive to light and noise.

Butterfly Haven 2024

Butterfly Haven

Guests will experience the beauty of the seasonal BUTTERFLY HAVEN, a 14′ wide x 10′ tall x 14′ long butterfly enclosure located alongside the Virginia Garden just outside the Wason Education Center.

The exciting new exhibit will engage guests of all ages as they immerse themselves in a world of butterflies and plants!

The house will support the Museum’s conservation efforts to preserve pollinating species such as the Monarch Butterfly. The initiative also supports education and awareness for the challenged annual Monarch butterfly migration due to deforestation in Mexico, extreme climate fluctuations in North America, and the growth of herbicide-based agriculture destroying crucial milkweed flora in the Midwest.

Cost: included in museum admission

September 14: Stargazing Night

Cost: Members $5, non-members $8 per show.

Virginia Skies

Time: 6pm

A live guided tour of the current evening sky with a staff astronomer.

Recommended for all ages.

Virginia Skies tickets

Hypnotica

Time: 7pm

Techno and lasers – perfect together. Join us for a body-shaking laser experience with pulsing beats, dazzling lights, and incredibly imagery. Featuring bands like The Crystal Method, Delerium, Faithless and many more.

This program is family-friendly: Inappropriate song lyrics have been eliminated or blanked.

Show Playlist

Trip Like I Do by the Crystal Method
Love Island by Fat Boy Slim
Insomnia by Faithless
Narayan by Prodigy
Joga by Björk
Silence by Delerium

Music: Response by The Chemical Brothers
Acid 8000 by Fat Boy Slim
Comin’ Back by The Crystal Method
Setting Sun by the Chemical Brothers

Hypnotica tickets

Laser Pink Floyd: The Vision Bell

Time: 8:30 pm

Recommended: ages 15 and above

Inspired by the release of 1994’s “The Division Bell,” this Pink Floyd laser show combines their most recent material with some of their oldest.

Some of these songs contain lyrics some parents may find objectionable.

Please be aware that volume levels during our Pink Floyd program will be high and the imagery can be intense.

Show Playlist

Keep Talking
One Slip
Astronomy Domine
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse
Have a Cigar
Wish You Were Here

Another Brick in the Wall (Part I)
The Happiest Days of Our Lives
Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)
Hey You
Is There Anybody Out There?
Pigs on the Wing (Part II)
One of These Days
Hero’s Return

The Vision Bell tickets

Pink Floyd's The Wall

Time: 10pm

Recommended: ages 15 and above

The Wall is best considered as a continual story rather than a collection of individual songs. It tells the tale of a rock star named Pink and his downward spiral into madness. To the listener, and indeed many critics, The Wall is a gripping and spellbinding musical journey – beautiful, haunting, powerful and thought provoking. It is a timeless classic, and one of Pink Floyd’s best, becoming the group’s second best seller behind Dark Side of the Moon.

Now coupled with spectacular and mesmerizing laser art, Pink Floyd’s classic 1979 epic about personal struggle takes on a unique look, weaving its story in one of the most popular laser shows ever produced! Visitors will become lost and spellbound as their senses join this timeless journey.

Some of these songs contain lyrics some parents may find objectionable.

Please be aware that volume levels during our Pink Floyd program will be high and the imagery can be intense.

Show Playlist