We will resume hosting programs in September 2022. To request a program for a group, please fill out this form. 

Public Tuesday Night

January 24th, 7:00 pm

Get ready to look up and explore Minnesota's night sky! This program looks at strategies for finding your place in the universe through constellations, planets, and motions in the sky by tying together culture, science, and the human experience. Learn how to tell a planet from a star in our sky, and how the moon changes throughout the month. 

Register

 

February 14th, 5:30

Bring your favorite, sweet little person to enjoy Big Bird and Elmo in the film, One World, One Sky! We will also look for shapes and patterns in our sky for this ‘heartfelt’ day.

 

February 14th, 7:00 Family Valentines Day

Enjoy our planetarium skies and cultural connections that make February special. Hear stories old and new that celebrate love and care humans have for one another and our planet

 

March 21, 5:30 Seasonal Changes

We begin SPRING! Celebrate our seasonal constellations and enjoy some hands-on activities about what we observe in our spring sky!

 

March 21, 7:00

TBA

 

April 18th 5:30 NASA Missions (young families encouraged)

Take a tour of our nearest neighbors- the planets! Explore the solar system and everything in between through the lens of NASA’s historic missions.

 

April 18th 7:00 NASA Missions 

 

May 2

TBA-7:00

Schedule a time to visit the planetarium on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 2:30-4:30. Minimum group size is 10 visitors at $6 per person. Contact Sarah Weaver for availability (sarah.weaver@spps.org)

St. Paul Public School Visits

Como Planetarium is part of St. Paul Public Schools (ISD 625). Our physical building is currently OPEN for St. Paul Public School students!

Teachers can register for an onsite field trip  HERE!  

(SPPS virtual field trips can also be scheduled for online schools here). 

Attending the planetarium in person is highly beneficial for student learning 

Virtual programs are available to schools both within and outside St. Paul Public Schools (ISD 625). Please contact Sarah Weaver (sarah.weaver@spps.org) to schedule a virtual experience for students.  We served over 15,000 members of the community in the  2019-2020 school year!  

Como Planetarium limits COVID exposures by:

1. Being an SPPS site run by a SPPS teacher- all district protocols apply, including cleaning, distancing and vaccination/testing personnel.

2. Potential for hosting only one classroom at a time in a space designed to hold twice as many people (built for 55 people). Social distancing can be maintained

3. Using a separate building entrance for the planetarium field trips-students. This enables field trip students to have no contact with any other personnel or students from the rest of the building.

4. Having students bring their own iPads to eliminate a shared touch surface and increase the interaction for the lesson.