Celebrate Space Day

Celebrate Space Day!

Celebrate World Space Week at Tūhura Otago Museum with an array of experiments, demonstrations, films, talks, crafts, a kids' space quiz, a rocket launch... and more!

We have lots of entertaining and educational activities planned throughout the day to celebrate all things space. Make your own hanging planet mobile or alien creature, enjoy talks by leading experts in fields ranging from black holes to Titan, see how high we can launch a bottle rocket, and enjoy a free family screening of Wall-E in our Beautiful Science Gallery!

There’s something on offer for everyone; take a look at our full schedule below.


Family Fun
Space Week Makerspace, 10am – 3pm, Atrium Level 1
Rocket Launch, 10.30am and 12.30pm, Ground Level
Fireballs Aotearoa and Pop-Up Science Stations, 10am – 3pm, Atrium Level 1
Free Face Painting, 11am – 12pm, Atrium Level 1
Kids' Space Quiz, 1pm, Barclay Theatre
Space Science Show, 2pm, Atrium Level 1
Wall-E Family Fun Screening, 3pm, Beautiful Science Gallery

Fascinating Talks (Barclay Theatre)
Black Holes – The most extreme objects in the universe – 11am.
Annika Seppala, TBC, 11.30am.
Solar Systems and the Aurora –12pm.
Fireballs Aotearoa – The quest to find and recover New Zealand’s next meteorite – 2pm.
Could Life Be a Universal Phenomenon? – 2.30pm.
LISA and Gravitational Waves From Space – 3pm.
Cyanide Snow on Titan – A source of life’s building blocks on Saturn’s amazing moon? – 3.30pm.

Planetarium Shows
Standard Planetarium pricing applies unless otherwise listed

11:30am – Spacetronauts: Spacemasters
12:30pm, 12.50pm and 1.10pm – Tūhura Space Tours (Free)
1:30pm – Storytime Under the Stars
2:30pm – Astronomy Adventures
3.30pm – CAPCOM GO! The Apollo Story
4:30pm – Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon

10am – 5pm, Saturday 7 October
Whole Museum
Free (Planetarium Ticketing Applies)