$5 Specials During the Tucson Festival of Books!

Discounts on admission – $5 shows, $5 exhibit admission

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staff in front of flandrau

When

10 a.m. – 5 p.m., March 9, 2024
10 a.m. – 5 p.m., March 10, 2024

Where

Flandrau Event Schedule!

During the Tucson Festival of Books

March 9 & 10, 2024
  • Enjoy reduced admission rates of $5 per person for science exhibits or planetarium shows! Sold separately.

Science Exhibits & Demonstrations

Flandrau staff in exhibit hall

10AM-5PM - Science Exhibits

  • Undersea Discovery (newest exhibit!)
  • Wild World of Bugs
  • Sharks: Magnificent & Misunderstood
  • HiRISE: Eye in the Martian Sky
  • Solar System Revealed
  • Destination Mars
  • Puzzles, Proofs, & Patterns
  • Fossil Corner

$5 per person. Includes all exhibits. 

Purchase at Flandrau.

Valentines Day Record Activity

Hourly - Science Activities

Saturday - Groovy Sounds (vinyl record experiment)

Sunday - The Science of Eclipses (demonstration)

  • 10:45AM
  • 11:45AM
  • 1:45PM
  • 2:45PM
  • 3:45PM

Included with exhibit admission.


Planetarium Show Schedule

Big Bird planetarium show tucson

11AM - One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure


Enjoy a trip to the stars with friends from Sesame Street.

Younger audiences

$5 per person. Purchase at Flandrau.

Touring the Solar System Graphic

12PM - Touring the Solar System (The Inner Planets)


Zoom away from planet Earth and take a guided tour of the rocky inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) of our Solar System.

General audiences

$5 per person. Purchase at Flandrau.

We Are Star Show at Flandrau

1PM - We Are Stars


A fun, gorgeously animated fulldome show about our explosive, celestial origins!

Younger audiences

$5 per person. Purchase at Flandrau.

Touring the Solar System Graphic

2PM - Touring the Solar System (The Outer Planets)


Zoom away from planet Earth and take a guided tour of the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) of our Solar System.

General audiences

$5 per person. Purchase at Flandrau.

Tucson Sky & Beyond graphic

3PM - Tucson Sky


A live star talk that explores constellations and points of astronomical interest in Tucson's current night sky.

General audiences

$5 per person. Purchase at Flandrau.

Expedition Reef Planetarium Show poster

4PM - Expedition Reef


The Expedition Reef show reveals, in exquisite detail, the breathtaking beauty and biodiversity of coral reefs around the world—and the scientists taking action to restore them.

General audiences

$5 per person. Purchase at Flandrau.

Science exhibit admission is not required to see a planetarium show. No online ticket sales are available for these shows. The show schedule above is the same for both Saturday and Sunday, March 9th and 10th, 2024.