Tadpole Time

Friday, August 12

10 am

Join us for Tadpole Time Friday, August 12, at 10 am for a fun time of reading, animal visits and crafts! Enjoy the Flint RiverQuarium on your own after our time together. Every month at Tadpole Time we explore a different environmental theme for our youngest visitors. Tadpole Time is designed especially for parents and pre-schoolers, but all ages are welcome It's FREE with your RiverQuarium membership or with regular admission.

Blue Star Museum Program
Armed Forces Day-Memorial Day

The Flint RiverQuarium is participating in the Blue Star Museum program which provides free admission to our nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day (May 21) through Labor Day (September 5). Artesian Alliance partners Chehaw Park & Zoo and Thronateeska are also participating. The free admission program is available for those currently serving in the United States Military - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard as well as Active Duty and Reservists, National Guardsman (regardless of status), U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps, and up to five family members. Qualified members must show a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC) or DD Form 1173 ID card (dependent ID), or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card for entrance into a participating Blue Star Museum.

Regularly scheduled programs each Saturday and Sunday are designed to provide opportunities for our visitors to get up-close and personal with our animals. Blue hole dive shows, exhibit feedings, tank talks, and animal chats all give a more in-depth look at individual exhibits and animal behavior.

August Movies at the Imagination Theater

Plastic Paradise
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
10:30 am & 1:30 pm

Join journalist and filmmaker Angela Sun in the movie Plastic Paradise as she journeys to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and uncovers the mysteries of this remote phenomenon. Along with other researchers, she helps to shed some light on the effects that humanity’s rabid plastic consumption is having on our global ecosystems. This film contains graphic depictions of animal death and dissection.

Alligator Kingdom
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Noon & 3 pm

A magic carpet ride into one of the last great black water swamps on earth-- the great Okefenokee. Venture into a stunning landscape forged by fire and ruled by ancient predators.