It's February Vacation: Let's Travel to Outer Space
Be One of the First to Experience the EcoTarium's New Multimedia Planetarium
MEDIA CONTACT: Sarah Hesshaus
Communications Manager
shesshaus@ecotarium.org
(508)929-2738
February 2007
(WORCESTER, MA) -- After much anticipation, the EcoTarium launches its new Alden Digital Planetarium with a week of far out space activities! Opening on Tuesday, February 20, the Alden Digital Planetarium will be showing exciting and educational multimedia programming for families during February Vacation Week. Stop by, try on a real space suit and participate in hands-on family activities that are truly out of this world!
Celebrate the 45th anniversary of John Glenn's first-ever manned space flight around the Earth by going on a space flight of your own. The flight commander for this mission is Tom Hanks who will guide visitors through space in the multimedia planetarium show Passport to the Universe. Leave Earth's atmosphere and travel to the outer limits of the galaxies with incredible images from NASA's missions to space. Watch the latest programming from NASA TV while counting down to planetarium show launches.
Also showing in the Alden Digital Planetarium for Space Week is The Problem with Pluto and Secret of the Cardboard Rocket, a remastered version of the children's animated favorite. Then actually try on a real space suit and learn how these suits protect astronauts from an environment completely different from the Earth's. Engineer your own space craft, meet animals from the constellations, and plenty more.
On Wednesday, February 21 at 10:30 a.m., preschoolers and their families are invited to join the EcoTarium for special space activities just for them!
For more information on Space Week, including activities and Alden Digital Planetarium show times and programming, please call (508) 929-2700, or visit www.ecotarium.org. Alden Digital Planetarium admission is $4 per person and $3.50 for EcoTarium members. Tickets are available for school field trips and other group visits with advanced booking. Tickets can be purchased at the visitorŐs information desk.
EcoTarium, A Museum of Science & Nature, offers three floors of interactive exhibits, wildlife habitats, interpretive nature trails, a planetarium, and a narrow-gauge railroad. The museum, located at 222 Harrington Way in Worcester, Mass., is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays 12 to 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults and $8 for seniors, college students and children ages 3-18. Parking is free. For information, please call (508) 929-2700 or email info@ecotarium.org.
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