The Planetarium has a variety of high tech equipment which allows a close-up feel for comets, exploding stars and black holes. The Nature Center includes a beautiful self-guided tour through river bottomland. That bottomland produces the most lovable and embracing creature of the area, the pesky mosquito, and Clute is famous for celebrating its overbearing presence each July. The Great Texas Mosquito Festival includes the hilarious Mosquito Legs Contest, the Mosquito Calling Contest, a 5K and 1-mile Mosquito Chase, a Little Skeeter Baby Crawling Contest and much, much more. A gallery of Christmas trees decorated by local businesses is featured along with a large campfire for roasting marshmallows.
Entertainment is provided by local school and church choirs.