Bird Banding
2026-04-18 08:00 - 12:00, 2026-05-16 08:00 - 12:00 UTC | Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, 299 W. Hwy. 332, Lake Jackson, Texas, 77566
The banding station is an excellent opportunity to see birds up close and to learn about birds that live or migrate through the Brazosport Area. Watch volunteers collect baseline data on bird populations at the sanctuary.

Planetarium Show
2026-04-18 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-04-24 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-04-25 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-28 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-05-02 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-05-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) and 8 more dates | Center for the Arts & Sciences, 400 College Blvd., Clute, TX, 77531, United States
Features a 30-foot dome equipped with a Spitz Star Ball projector to produce the night sky as it appears to the naked eye, together with a large variety of high tech equipment to give a close- up feel for things like comets, exploding stars, and black holes.

Spring Astronomy Day
2026-04-25 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Center for the Arts & Sciences, 400 College Blvd., Clute, TX, 77531, United States
The fun begins at 12:00 p.m. with safe solar viewing for daylight hours. Seeing the Sun through a telescope is an awesome sight. It’s a dynamic, living body, changing unpredictably from day to day.
This star party also includes ViewSpace, an exhibit from the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Jackson Plantation Site Tour
2026-05-02 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | Abner Jackson Plantation Site, FM 2004 near Hwy. 332 Behind Target, Lake Jackson, Texas, 77566
Visit the historic archeological site of Major Abner Jackson, the namesake of the city of Lake Jackson. Once a prosperous sugar plantation, the site was destroyed by the same hurricane that devastated Galveston. Discover the sugar making process of the 1840s, how convict labor replaced slave labor during the 1870s, and how destructive the hurricane of 1900 truly was to the Texas Coast.

Shark Exhibit
2026-05-23 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-26 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-27 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-28 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-30 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-06-03 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) and 2 more dates | Freeport Historical Museum, 311 E. Park, Freeport, Texas, 77541
Stand inside enormous shark jaws, see life-sized models of different sharks, and explore fascinating ocean life!
