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
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2024-01/Valentine%20record%20activity.jpg?itok=Hf13Ge3e)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2024-01/Big%20Bird%20Large%20Wide.jpg?itok=CL1sCyAC)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-07/Touring%20the%20Solar%20System%203x2.png?itok=rHwoaBoe)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-08/We%20Are%20Stars%203x2.jpg?itok=qrECGUBt)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-07/Touring%20the%20Solar%20System%203x2.png?itok=rHwoaBoe)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-07/Tucson%20Sky%20%26%20Beyond%203x2.png?h=3a092316&itok=uzqiBeKh)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-07/expedition%20reef_poster%203%20x%202.jpg?itok=cDfVkyjS)
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.