Victor Valley Museum has announced a new exhibition, Here Comes the Sun: Solar Science and Spirituality. The long-awaited exhibition offers an awe-inspiring visual experience through a floor-to-ceiling projection featuring footage of the sun provided by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Launched in 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft remains in a geosynchronous orbit, maintaining continuous contact with the tracking station at White Sands, New Mexico. The mission is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
The sun is the brightest and most powerful object in our field of view — ever-present, yet too dangerous to observe directly. Throughout history, this mysterious source of light and energy has inspired scientific exploration, myths, art, literature and religious symbolism. In Southern California, the year-round presence of the sun has shaped culture from the earliest Indigenous communities to present day.
The exhibition opened in August 2025 and will remain on view through Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. Highlights of the exhibition include an immersive floor-to-ceiling projection; a collection of artifacts from archaeology, earth sciences, history and integrated biology showing how they have been influenced by the sun; and a hands-on interactive plasma ball.
Victor Valley Museum is open Wednesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and military, $7 for students, $5 for children ages 6-12, and free for children under 5. The museum is at 11873 Apple Valley Road, Apple Valley. For more information, call (760) 995-8770
