National Grid ExploraDome

Experience science like never before in the National Grid ExploraDome! Our state-of-the-art theatre and Silverman Planetarium immerse visitors in a completely new experience through vibrant colors, out-of-this-world surround sound, and a giant screen spanning beyond your vision. (Closed-captioning devices available upon request)

Penguin
Island

Run Time: 22 Minutes

Penguin Island Tickets

Syracuse Skies
Planetarium Show

Run Time: 25 Minutes

Syracuse Skies Tickets (FREE)

Animal
Kingdom

Run Time: 25 Minutes

Animal Kingdom Tickets

America the
Beautiful
November 11, 13, & 20

Run Time: 40 Minutes

America the Beautiful Tickets (FREE)

Tickets also available in person

Tickets

Tickets available online through links above, or in person at the museum.

Film Tickets
⭐ Syracuse Skies Planetarium ShowFREE
MOST Member$4
Adult/Youth/Senior
Children under 2 are free		$6
Museums for All
(*requires EBT card; must buy in person)		$2

Daily Schedule

Thursday 12:30 showings may be pre-empted by school field trips
See special engagement schedule below for November 11, 13, and 20

10:30 |Penguin Island NEW!
11:30 |Animal Kingdom
12:30 |Syracuse Skies Planetarium Show
1:30 |Penguin Island NEW!
2:30 |Animal Kingdom

America the Beautiful Special Engagement

FREE movie showings all day

  • Wednesday, November 11
  • Friday, November 13
  • Friday, November 20
9:30 |America the Beautiful FREE
10:30 |America the Beautiful FREE
11:30 |America the Beautiful FREE
12:30 |America the Beautiful FREE
1:30 |America the Beautiful FREE
2:30 |America the Beautiful FREE
3:30 |America the Beautiful FREE

Subject to change and cancelations for special events. Please see our daily activities calendar for the most up-to-date film schedule. 

Film Information

🐧 Penguin Island

Much like their close cousins the Emperors, crowd-pleasing King penguins star in one of nature’s most extraordinary circle of life stories. Shot on the dramatic and uninhabited sub-Antarctic Crozet Archipelago, home to over half a million breeding pairs of penguins, the film chronicles the arrival of a lone, determined male suitor, driven by instinct to return to this treeless mote in the vast Southern seas. Here, against all odds, he must find a special someone among a cacophony of colony rivals, protect a precious egg, and start a family. Navigating a world of hungry orcas, predatory petrels, and feuding, farting elephant seals, a touching story of perseverance and parental care emerges, offering a family-friendly, timeless tale at the windswept and beautiful edge of the world.

🔭 Syracuse Skies planetarium show (FREE)

presented by The Summit Federal Credit Union

From solstices and solar activity to constellations and comets, explore the night sky in Syracuse. Discover new trips and tricks for stargazing, learn how to identify constellations visible year-round in our region, and experience unique astronomical phenomena that take place at specific times each year — or only once in a “blue moon”! Planetarium shows are presented live by science educators during most showings.

🐘 Animal Kingdom: A Tale of Six Families

Animal Kingdom is a stunning exploration into just what makes our natural world so spectacular. An educational journey from A-Z, the film introduces audiences to animals from all over the world and explores the ways in which we can help to protect them. Across frozen snowy forests, under scorching African Sun, and into the darkest depths of the ocean, learn why animals are the way they are and answer the simple but important questions that form the basis of our knowledge about the animal world.

🦅 America the Beautiful (FREE)

Playing November 11, 13, & 20

America the Beautiful is a sweeping giant screen experience celebrating the vast and varied natural worlds that define the United States and the conservation movement that has ensured their survival. The protection of America’s beauty, wonder and resources was set in motion by Theodore Roosevelt and other pioneers who popularized principles still in practice today, passed down through generations, that will keep America’s wild heart beating for many more. Audiences will embark on an awe-inspiring journey from sea to shining sea, across the country’s most iconic and diverse environments – soaring mountain ranges, expansive plains, surprising deserts, flowing rivers and wetlands – captured with the scale, clarity, and immersion of spectacular giant screen cinematography. More than a visual spectacle, America the Beautiful reveals that these places were not preserved by chance, but through bold vision, determination, and an enduring commitment to conservation that continues to shape the nation’s natural legacy.

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