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Museum MAYhem
Fun-filled family day with activities throughout the museum and outside on the bricks! Hands-on experiments and activities, food trucks, and tours with the Albany-DoCo Historic Preservation Commission. Meet Cindy, our newly installed full-scale reproduction of the prehistoric whale, Cynthiacetus!
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Upcoming Events
Thronateeska Heritage Center inspires wonder and stimulates exploration of science and South Georgia's history by providing a dynamic learning experience through an interactive science center and museum.
Our Mission
Planetarium Shows
- Molecularium
Thursday & Friday Showtime: 10:30 am
Saturday showings vary weekly
Welcome to Molecularium: a magical, musical adventure into the world of molecules! This show is an exciting new animation created to spark interest in the atoms and molecules that constitute our world. You’ll be following a cast of characters, based on atoms, as they move throughout the universe from the perspective of a magical ship, also called the Molecularium. The ship can view matter on both the human and molecular levels.
25 minutes- Watch Trailer
- Astronomyths
Thursday & Friday Showtime: 11:30 am
Saturday showings vary weekly
Astronomyths blends modern astronomy with ancient Greek mythology. The show travels the audience through a series of constellations as seen from earth and the respective mythological stories after which they were named. This is a great show for audiences of all ages, presenting rich educational content in a highly entertaining way.
24 minutes- Watch Trailer
- From Earth to Universe
Thursday & Friday Showtime: 1 pm
Saturday showings vary weekly
The night sky, both beautiful and mysterious, has been the subject of campfire stories, ancient myths and awe for as long as there have been people. A desire to comprehend the Universe may well be humanity’s oldest shared intellectual experience. Yet only recently have we truly begun to grasp our place in the vast cosmos. To learn about this journey of celestial discovery, from the theories of the ancient Greek astronomers to today’s grandest telescopes, we invite you to experience From Earth to the Universe.
30 minutes- Watch Trailer
- Black Holes
Thursday & Friday Showtime: 2 pm
Saturday showings vary weekly
Black Holes takes you on a fully immersive journey through one of the most mystifying, awe-inspiring phenomena in the universe: a black hole. Where do they come from? Where do they go? How do we find them? Is there one on Earth’s horizon? What was Einstein’s connection to them?
37 minutes- Watch Trailer
- Oasis in Space
Thursday & Friday Showtime: 3 pm
Saturday showings vary weekly
Oasis in Space transports the audience on a startling and beautiful voyage through our universe, galaxy and solar system in search of liquid water, a key ingredient for life on Earth.
24 minutes- Watch Trailer