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  • Flint RiverQuarium & Thronateeska
    Ages 5-12

    Winter Break Camp
    December 19-23 and December 27-30
    Daily trips to the RiverQuarium and Thronateeska’s Science Museum, animals encounters, games, activities, and crafts.

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    Flint RiverQuarium & Thronateeska
    Ages 5-12

    Winter Break Camp
    December 19-23 and December 27-30
    Daily trips to the RiverQuarium and Thronateeska’s Science Museum, animals encounters, games, activities, and crafts.

    Register Here
    Flint RiverQuarium & ThronateeskaAges 5-12 Winter Break CampDecember 19-23 and December 27-30Daily trips to the RiverQuarium and Thronateeska’s Science Museum, animals encounters, games, activities, and crafts. Register Here

    Flint RiverQuarium & Thronateeska
    Ages 5-12

    Winter Break Camp
    December 19-23 and December 27-30
    Daily trips to the RiverQuarium and Thronateeska’s Science Museum, animals encounters, games, activities, and crafts.

    Register Here

    Flint RiverQuarium & Thronateeska
    Ages 5-12

    Winter Break Camp
    December 19-23 and December 27-30
    Daily trips to the RiverQuarium and Thronateeska’s Science Museum, animals encounters, games, activities, and crafts.

    Register Here
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Upcoming Events

 

Selfies with Santa
Santa will be visiting Thronateeska on Thursday, December 1, from 5-7 pm to help us kick off the opening of our annual Santa!

Evening activities include:

  • Selfies with Santa or the option to pay for a professional photo
  • Hot chocolate bar
  • Cookie decorating
  • Holiday-themed activities
  • Seasons of Light Planetarium Show (members are free, future members $5 per person)

This event is free to the public.

Museums Feature

 

Santa Exhibit
The annual exhibit of Santas filling the Union Depot is sure to put you in the holiday spirit! Hundreds of versions of Jolly Old St. Nick document Santa’s appearance through the years and around the world.

Museums Feature

 

Holiday Hours
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Check out our holiday hours.

Museums Feature

Flint RiverQuarium & Thronateeska
Ages 5-12

Winter Break Camp
December 19-23 and December 27-30
Daily trips to the RiverQuarium and Thronateeska’s Science Museum, animals encounters, games, activities, and crafts.

Register Here

Museums Feature

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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Zygorhiza

    Zygorhiza

    The whale species, Zygorhiza, is a 36-million-year-old ancestor of modern-toothed whales and porpoises. This 20-foot long creature had both pointed teeth for grabbing prey and saw-edged teeth for slicing and chewing. This is the cast of a skeleton found in Twiggs County, Georgia, with a shark in its belly!

  • History of Flight

    History of Flight

    On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in a powered airplane. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This ½ scale model hangs in the Science Museum. The original Wright Flyer hangs in the Smithsonian.

  • Train Exhibit

    Train Exhibit

    Southwest Georgia has a rich railroad history. Albany’s Union Depot, built in 1913, was used by five different railroads that served the city. Seven rail lines radiating out of Albany converged at Union Depot.

  • Georgia Museum of Surveying and Mapping

    Georgia Museum of Surveying and Mapping

    Located in the History Museum, this exhibit demonstrates how surveying and mapping has shaped, and is shaping, the world in which we live. The collection consists of more than 100 surveying and mapping instruments and tools dating back to the eighteenth century, along with a growing collection of surveys and maps from around Georgia.

  • Original Brick Streets

    Original Brick Streets

    Thronateeska is located at Heritage Plaza on the only remaining brick street in the city. Laid in 1913 as part of a larger downtown street improvement project, the street’s brick paving materials are characteristic of early twentieth-century street and highway construction.

  • Bobs Candy Company

    Bobs Candy Company

    Bobs Candy Company was started by Bob McCormack in Albany in 1919. The company produced a variety of candies but is perhaps best known for their peppermint. Bobs invented the Keller Machine to automate the process of twisting the signature hook in the candy cane, making mass production possible.

  • Artesian City

    Artesian City

    Georgia’s first free-flowing artesian well was dug in western Dougherty County in 1881 and produced pure water for many years. The City of Albany continued to drill many artesian wells and even adopted the free-flowing water as its symbol and nickname, The Artesian City, on the official Seal of the City.

  • South Georgia Archives

    South Georgia Archives

    The archives houses nearly 10,000 books, boxes, and miscellaneous items for clients at 5,441 cubic feet. These items would fill 5 ½ U-Haul trucks. Placed end-to-end the boxes would stretch more than a mile!

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Hours of Operation

Thursday – Saturday
10:00 am –  4:00 pm

(229) 432.6955