Musica- Why is the Universe Beautiful? October 19, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States This all-ages show in the planetarium presents the idea that art, music, physics and mathematics are fundamentally related and an integral part of the beauty of the Cosmos. With vivid, detailed descriptions of the spiral designs inherent in natural phenomena such as DNA, sunflowers and galaxies, the concepts of harmony and harmonics resulting from maths... Free
Badger Talks: How Can We Find Other Life in the Universe? Featured October 24, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Chemistry Biology Building 2101 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Are we alone in the universe? This question has been asked for over two thousand years, and we now possess the tools and techniques necessary to answer it. Assistant Professor Thomas Beatty of the University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Astronomy will discuss what we want to look for on other planets to see if... Free
Spark: The Universe in Us October 26, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Journey across space and time as we explore the remnants of stellar explosions, tracing the movements of elements through our galaxy to understand how stars live, die, and seed the Universe with the elements to build new generations of stars, planets, and life. Narrated by Diego Luna, the California Academy of Sciences’ all-new, original planetarium... Free
Cosmic Castaways November 9, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States There are places in the Universe where the night sky has no constellations. No Orion, no Saucepan. Nothing but a few lonely, far away stars and some faint, ghostly patches of light. Almost all stars lie within the crowded boundaries of huge galaxies, travelling with their brothers and sisters as a vast galactic family. But... Free
Big Astronomy November 16, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Big Astronomy or Astronomía a Gran Escala, is a multifaceted research and outreach project, supported by several partners and funded by the National Science Foundation, that showcases the award-winning bilingual planetarium show Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries. The planetarium show transports viewers to Chile where the dark skies and dry, remote setting create ideal conditions for... Free
From Earth to the Universe November 23, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States 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.... Free
Forward! To the Moon! February 1 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States NASA’s 21st century Artemis program, named after the Greek moon goddess and twin of Apollo, is the next step in our mission to explore the universe and land the first woman and person of color on the surface of the Moon. Using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before, NASA uses what... Free
Dino Night at the Museum February 5 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Come for dinosaur trivia, activity stations and fun! The Olson Museum of Natural History will be open late for a night of prehistoric adventures you won't want to miss. Join us for multiple stations and the chance to meet our student groups who are involved in the Olson Museum of Natural History. Test your knowledge with... Free
Mars: The Ultimate Voyage February 8 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Discover the many challenges astronauts will face and how creativity, communication, and collaboration are essential for deep space exploration. This full-dome show takes audiences to the Red Planet. On a two year journey to Mars astronauts will face extraordinary challenges—long distance, a closed environment, isolation, altered gravity, radiation. Explore the inherent challenges of future human... Free
Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope March 1 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope show follows two students as they interact with a female astronomer at a local star party. Along the way, the students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo's modifications to a child's spyglass — using two small pieces of glass — to the launch of... Free
From Earth to the Universe March 8 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States 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.... Free
Collection Crawl Featured April 11 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Collection Crawl annual open house is a chance for us to showcase a wide variety of museum specimens from all of our UWSP collections. Participants can spend hours visiting collection sites around campus and engaging in science games and activities with our staff and volunteers. Free