Join us for hands-on crafts, fun games, interactive nature and conservation booths, guided bird walks, and more family-friendly activities. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with nature at Rio Salado! Join us for our Love Birds Community Festival featuring hands-on crafts, fun games, interactive nature and conservation booths, guided bird walks, and more family-friendly activities. This free event...
Saturday February 14th is our next FREE NATURE WALK along the Rio Salado! Join the Liberty Wildlife team for a walk along the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area on the first Saturday of each month (November through May) Prepare for about 60-90 minutes of light walking on fairly easy trails and terrain (but will be...
Treat yourself and your loved ones to a day with your favorite Zoo animals as they delight in seasonal enrichment. Spend a day reveling in unique Zoo Keeper Experiences, crafting valentines, and indulge yourself with the Flamingo Grill’s famous pretzels. Feel the love all weekend long as the Zoo will be sprinkled with conservation hearts...
Part art. Part engineering. Totally amazing! Add a pop of wonder and a pinch of nostalgia to your spring with Sean Kenney’s Nature Pop! Marvel at over 40 wildly creative sculptures made entirely of LEGO® bricks at this exhibition, included with Zoo admission and free for Zoo members from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily....
The Cave Creek Museum’s AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE™ is unique with its display of the complete hard rock ore extraction process, with the mine shaft, tramway, ore carts, crushing and extraction,...
Unplug and Reconnect with Nature! Join us for Nature Play at the Children’s Garden, where families can escape the screens and dive into the wonders of the great outdoors. Every Saturday, from October to April, bring your kids to explore, play, and learn in a safe, engaging environment. Outdoor play isn’t just fun; it’s essential!...
October through April we are open to the public from 10am until 1pm. Our admission is $10 per adult (18+) and $5 per student (under 18). Children 4 and under are free. We will have daily programs and presentations that will be advertised in the lobby upon your arrival for a different experience each visit.
The Chocolate Affaire is the premier event for chocolate lovers everywhere! The event brings unique chocolate experiences to the City of Glendale for a two-day exhibition of 50+ chocolatiers, food...
A fun, beautifully animated fulldome show about cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins—revealing how hydrogen and carbon formed in the universe and how we are, quite literally, made of stars!...
Create glitter dough art inspired by the night sky. Part of the Verde Valley SciTech Festival, a month-long celebration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), featuring free events across the Verde Valley. Arizona SciTech Festival Season is here! We hope to see you in many of the Festival's events all over...
Are you mammal obsessed? This is the tour for you! Our Private Mammal Tour is a great option to meet some of our furry friends, watch feeding demonstrations, and learn more about the mammal residents at PHS! Your VIP-Inspired Experience Includes: Capybara interaction for the group. Meet, pet, and feed our adorable capybara "Spud"! Opossum interaction...
Sit back and relax for this popular live show as one of our Console Captains guides you through the night sky from a Tucson perspective, pointing out stars, planets, constellations,...
It’s Healthy Smiles Month! “Brush” up on your reading and find a Playologist friend every day at 1:30 pm for a fun tooth-tacular story time! “Healthy Smiles” Month is generously...
Meet several of the Zoo’s animal Ambassadors during this semi-private encounter. During this experience, you will have the opportunity to get closer than you imagined with some awesome species. You’ll meet invertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, and have a chance to see a training session. Age: All ages; at least one adult must attend. Time: Tours begin...
Journey into the mysterious world of black holes in this visually stunning, immersive show. Featuring cosmic simulations and narrated by Liam Neeson, explore star birth and death, colliding galaxies, and a thrilling dive into our galaxy’s core. Audience: General, all ages Style: Fulldome film + live star talk All-Inclusive Planetarium Show Tickets Show...
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure. Audience: General, all ages Style: Live star talk All-Inclusive Planetarium Show Tickets Show tickets include access to all science...
Lowell Observatory presents a Night of Discovery, commemorating the anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of the icy world Pluto on February 18, 1930. This is the keynote event of the 7th Annual...
Come view the stars during the Arizona SciTech Festival! Fun for the whole family, located at the Gilbert Riparian Preserve. East Valley Astronomy Club members staff operations and programming for the Observatory. The observatory houses a 16-inch diameter Meade, modified Richey-Cretien scope, guided by a Paramount ME computer controlled German equatorial mount slaved to The...
Learn about the James Webb Space Telescopes latest discoveries, explore the ancient stories and science behind romantic constellations, and find out what made prominent U of A researchers fall in...