The new Railway Garden, a G-gauge model railway running through a 2.5 acre site, opens April 30. Visitors enter through a 1920s-era railway depot to see trains running through a garden of miniature plants, water features and a variety of landscapes. May 1 through October.

Hands-on class led by Dave Esau, chef and owner of Dave's Specialty Foods, Inc. Eggs are the ingredient of the day as you scramble, beat, and boil eggs for a variety of egg-based foods. Register at ahpd.org.

Extended kid-friendly and family programming at the Adler Planetarium is presented by the Charter One Foundation.

A visually explosive journey of discovery that weighs the solutions aimed at restoring our planet's orbits. Visitors experience mind-boggling collisions in time lapse sequences captured with the magical imagery of 3D.

New space show gives audiences the chance to see the sun up close in dazzling, high-definition 3D. Stand above the Arctic Circle and witness brilliant auroras. Take a ride on a solar blast from the Sun's surface to Earth's Magnetosphere. Witness the most powerful explosions in the solar system - equal to the force of a billion megaton nuclear bombs.

Performances run most Tuesdays through Saturdays at 10 a.m., and added performances March 27, 29 and 30 at 12:30 p.m. 

Join the three little pigs on their journey in this musical version of the classic fairy tale. Performances at 9:45 and 11:30 a.m. weekdays from April 5-13 and 11 a.m. April 7.