4-5 year-olds
Bring your favorite stuffed friend for a teddy bear picnic in the Longway Planetarium garden! We’ll go on a garden hunt, make lemonade to drink, and play teddy bear games.
Location: Longway Planetarium
4th-6th grades
Turn Longway Planetarium’s Jupiter Room into a life-sized board game. Work with a team to design a space vehicle game piece, and work through a series of challenges to move your team’s piece around the board. Will your team be the first to make it to mission base?
4-5 year-olds
“X” marks the spot! Use your mapping skills to hunt for a special treasure located at the spot marked with a red “X.”
4-5 year-olds
Think like a mathematical genius as you investigate objects based on length, weight, and height.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
Please login to reserve your tickets. Member discounts are automatically applied at checkout. Advance ticket reservation is recommended, as ticket times may sell out. When you arrive, please present your membership card and driver's license or ID at the ticket counter to confirm your membership level.
Sloan Museum at Courtland – General Admission
General Admission tickets include the historic vehicles exhibit and educator-led activities. Traveling exhibits Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss and Roll, Drop, Bounce are not included in general admission. If you would like to also attend the traveling exhibits, please purchase tickets here.
Capacity is limited to 50 visitors and tickets are timed to ensure social distancing. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 12:00-2:00 PM and 3:00-5:00 PM. We will close for an hour of cleaning after each ticket time. To select another time or date, please select the "Other Times" button above.
Genesee County residents receive free General Admission and discounted Traveling Exhibit Admission. If you are a Genesee County resident, please select the “Gen-Cty” ticket options below. Advance ticket reservation is recommended, as ticket times may sell out. When you arrive, please present your driver’s license or ID with your address on it to confirm your residency.
Please login to reserve your tickets. Member discounts are automatically applied at checkout. Advance ticket reservation is recommended, as ticket times may sell out. When you arrive, please present your membership card and driver's license or ID at the ticket counter to confirm your membership level.
Sloan Museum at Courtland + Traveling Exhibit Admission
Traveling Exhibit Admission includes Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss and Roll, Drop, Bounce (open through September 13, 2020) as well as General Admission experiences. If you would like to only attend the historic vehicles exhibit and educator-led activities, please purchase General Admission tickets here.
Capacity is limited to 50 visitors and tickets are timed to ensure social distancing. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 12:00-2:00 PM and 3:00-5:00 PM. We will close for an hour of cleaning after each ticket time. To select another time or date, please select the "Other Times" button above.
Genesee County residents receive free General Admission and discounted Traveling Exhibit Admission. If you are a Genesee County resident, please select the “Gen-Cty” ticket options below. Advance ticket reservation is recommended, as ticket times may sell out. When you arrive, please present your driver’s license or ID with your address on it to confirm your residency.
4:30 PM Wed./Thurs./Fri./Sat./Sun.
1:30 PM Sat. & Sun.
6:00 PM Thurs./Fri./Sat. (beginning March 11)
Additional Showtimes:
1:30 & 4:30 PM Monday, March 29 & Tuesday, March 30
No show Sunday, April 4
Advance ticket reservation is strongly recommended. Shows may sell out.
Turtle Odyssey explores the unique lifecycle of an Australian green sea turtle named Bunji and her incredible journey across the open ocean. The film follows Bunji the green sea turtle from a hatchling into adulthood as she swims thousands of miles, meets incredible creatures and has some really wild encounters. Great for adults and kids ages 6 and older.
Please double check the date and time that you are purchasing your tickets for prior to finishing the sale. If the showtime is not available the show is sold out. Please choose another date and time.
Be a problem-solving architect, carpenter, and mechanical engineer as you build your own creations using everyday objects!
Be a problem-solving architect, carpenter, and mechanical engineer as you build your own creations using everyday objects!
Be a problem-solving architect, carpenter, and mechanical engineer as you build your own creations using everyday objects!
4-5 year-olds
Become a paleontologist for the day! Let’s create our own fossils and use scientific tools to uncover, examine, and build dinosaur bones.
4-5 year-olds
Become a paleontologist for the day! Let’s create our own fossils and use scientific tools to uncover, examine, and build dinosaur bones.
4-5 year-olds
Become a paleontologist for the day! Let’s create our own fossils and use scientific tools to uncover, examine, and build dinosaur bones.
4-5 year-olds
Become a paleontologist for the day! Let’s create our own fossils and use scientific tools to uncover, examine, and build dinosaur bones.
4-5 year-olds
Become a paleontologist for the day! Let’s create our own fossils and use scientific tools to uncover, examine, and build dinosaur bones.
Be a problem-solving architect, carpenter, and mechanical engineer as you build your own creations using everyday objects!
4-5 year-olds
Become a paleontologist for the day! Let’s create our own fossils and use scientific tools to uncover, examine, and build dinosaur bones.
1st-3rd grades
Choose from two dates. The same activities will be presented each week:
Date: Monday, July 6-Friday, July 10
Time: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
OR
Date: Monday, July 20-Friday, July 24
Time: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Location: Longway Planetarium
Fee: $95
Kids will explore these exciting science, technology, engineering, and math topics:
Dinosaur Discovery: Learn how fossils were formed while making your own fossil model. Use clues from “fossil finds” to piece together a Box-A-Saurus, while thinking about how dinosaurs lived in their environments.
Weather: Weather can be wild! Explore severe weather while learning how weather works.
Bugs: Go on a bug hunt in the planetarium garden and explore the lives of insects, spiders, and other crawlers. Compare and contrast life cycles and investigate camouflage and mimicry.
Tinker Lab: Use a variety of materials in new and creative ways. Play with light and shadows, create noise makers, and craft a bracelet using old plastic containers.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
4th-6th grades
Location: Longway Planetarium
Kids will explore exciting science, technology, engineering, and math topics:
Build-A-Zoo: Draw an animal from the hat then design and build a zoo enclosure that provides all of the animal’s needs. Combine your enclosure with others to create a model zoo.
Energy Explorations: Investigate light, sound, electricity, heat, and energy from the sun.
Crazy Contraptions: Use art materials to design and build your own drawing machine. Choose from a variety of materials to build a contraption that will move a marble through obstacles.
Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, volcanoes, and wild weather! Explore how earth processes impact humans and how technology helps us predict, prepare for, and recover from natural disasters.
Location: Longway Planetarium
4th-6th grades
Turn Longway Planetarium’s Jupiter Room into a life-sized board game. Work with a team to design a space vehicle game piece, and work through a series of challenges to move your team’s piece around the board. Will your team be the first to make it to mission base?
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.
1st-3rd grades
If you enjoy both science and art, you will love this experience! Let’s combine our scientific and artistic skills to create magnificent, meaningful pieces of art.