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.

Students from Rice University’s Archaeological Field Techniques Class will be excavating at the Varner-Hogg Plantation Picnic Loop this Spring! The class is focusing their efforts on the structures discovered and documented during the Summer 2023 drought. The excavations allow students to learn what archeology is really like while still being able to keep a normal college […]

This exhibit shares the narratives of the enslaved who labored local plantations as well as exploring the politics and personalities involved in the slave trade. Original artifacts from local plantation sites will be on display.

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.

Learn from site staff about those who were enslaved or sharecropped during the plantation and post-emancipation eras and the archaeology associated with them.