Anchorage science events

Outdoor Explore

Get your hands dirty while helping plant the museum’s garden. Patrick Ryan from Alaska Botanical Garden teaches budding gardeners planting techniques and how to identify and care for local flora...

Dinosaur Passage to Pangaea

This animated planetarium adventure explains one of the greatest geological events in Earth’s history: The separation of the supercontinent Pangaea...

Supervolcanoes

Travel back in time and experience the massive volcanic eruptions that shaped the Earth and solar system in this planetarium show...

Imaginarium Science Demonstration

Watch fizzy, foamy science experiments, pet reptiles, stargaze in the planetarium and more during live science demonstrations. Different demonstrations offered each day.

Anchorage Science Pub

Topic: Can 1,000 Jet Skis Racing Through the Inlet ‘Leave No Trace’? by Susan Olsen...

Alaska Spirit of the Wild

This planetarium show is an Academy Award-nominated adventure into untamed Alaska. Charlton Heston narrates as glaciers calve, caribou stampede and a wolf pack hunts.

Into the Deep

Dive alongside deep-sea research pioneers to learn about marine biology, underwater geology and the history of deep-sea exploration in this planetarium show...

Solstice Week at the Anchorage Museum

Celebrate summer solstice with a week of hands-on activities. See the sun through a solar telescope, catch a free planetarium demo about the sun and more.

Wonders of the Universe

Peer deep into space through the eyes of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and travel back billions of years to witness the birth of the universe in this planetarium show...

Tinker Time

Preschoolers learn through art and play. Each week features a different subject related to science and/or nature. Story time included.

Experience the Aurora

Marvel as the Northern Lights shimmer and glisten overhead through time-lapse footage captured in the Arctic Circle...

Astronomy Alive

Join a science educator on a narrated tour through the night sky in the museum's planetarium. Shows vary based on night sky occurrences.

Aurora Borealis Movie and Live Presentation

Join us at the Alaska Public Lands Information Center every Monday of the summer season for a special 2:00 program about the Aurora Borealis...