Exploration Place

There's nothing like spending the evening with live music, pyro drones and 2,000 of your closest friends. Thanks for making the first night of the 2026 Drone Light Festival a blast!

We'll be back tomorrow. A handful of carload passes are still available for Saturday (seriously... fewer than 20) and Sunday.

Grab tickets here: https://exploration.org/event/drone-light-show/

Thank you, Wichita!

Update for tonight's show! The drones will fly at 8 pm. ✨️ It looks like the weather is going to hold off and the drones are planning to fly. We can't wait to see 500 drones in the Wichita sky in one hour!

The museum will still be open until 10 pm for festival ticket holders.

We're adding Laser K- Pop Demon Hunters shows in the Dome. The new schedule for tonight's laser shows are 7:00, 7:30, 9:00 and 9:30 pm.

What a night! Elemental filled Exploration Place with people who care deeply about this place, this community and making science accessible to the next generation.

There was plenty to celebrate, but our favorite part was seeing so many longtime friends, supporters and new faces together, all here because they believe in what Exploration Place can do for Wichita.

To everyone who attended, sponsored, donated, volunteered or helped bring the evening to life: thank you. We are incredibly lucky to have this community behind us.

Here are a few of our favorite moments from a pretty great night.

Thank you to our 2026 Elemental Sponsors:

Resonance - Entertainment Sponsor
Movement Musick

Catalyst - STEM Experience or Food Station Sponsor
Cargill
Mokas

Fusion - Table Sponsor
Bombardier
Dondlinger Construction
Farha Roofing
Fast EST, Inc
Fidelity Bank
Fugate Enterprises
Ruthie & Jim Gillespie
Murfin, Inc
MVP Holdings
The Plaid Giraffe
Textron Aviation
Huyen & Quoc Truong
Walser Auto Campus

Kinetic - Party Starter Sponsor
Chicken N Pickle
Delta Dental
Emprise Bank
Genevieve & Chris Farha
Kyle Futo
Ilex & Michael Gelpi
Helen & Ed Healy
Intrust Bank
Kansas Gas Service
Diana & Randy Mark
Debbie Sinclair
Adam Smith
Karen & Brandon Steven
Erin & Colling Stieben

Your weekend needs a little main character energy. ✨

Come hang out at Exploration Place, grab some food, catch live music and then watch 500 synchronized drones put on a show above the Keeper of the Plains.

Tonight, starting at 6 pm, through Sunday. Tickets are still on sale: https://exploration.org/event/drone-light-show/

Your Drone Light Festival ticket gets you a whole lot more than a spot for the show. 😁

Starting at 6 pm, explore Exploration Place and play at the Adventure Playscape before 500 drones take flight at 9 pm.

Come early, explore, play and make a whole night of it! Click here for tickets: https://exploration.org/event/drone-light-show/

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Take your turn at karaoke in the Live Science Theater every night during the Drone Light Festival. Grab the mic, pick your song and give us your best performance before the drones take over the sky.

Get tickets here: https://exploration.org/event/drone-light-show/

POV: your weekend plans just got significantly cooler.

🚀 500 drones
🔥 NEW pyro drones
🎶 Live music
🌮 Food trucks
🛝 Access to the museum and Adventure Playscape

September 25–27 at Exploration Place. See you there? Get your tickets: https://exploration.org/event/drone-light-show/

The Levitt VIBE Concert series might be on a break for this week, but we are looking forward to bringing live music back to the amphitheater for Thursdays in October. Carrie Ringers at the Wichita Eagle wrote up an excellent piece about the free concert series. Check it out!

Like live music? How about free? Then this concert series is for you. Exploration Place won a three-year Levitt Family Foundation grant for a concert series that started this fall.

🔥 Tomorrow, the Wichita sky comes alive! 🔥

The Drone Light Festival officially kicks off tomorrow, and we're bringing 500 synchronized drones and brand-new pyro drones to the sky above the Keeper of the Plains.

Gates open at 6 pm, so come early, grab some food, enjoy the festival and find your spot before the show. Drones take flight at 9 pm.

Tomorrow is the night. We'll see you there! Get your tickets here: https://exploration.org/event/drone-light-show/