If you need a summer football fix, the Arena Football League brings its fast-paced, high-scoring version back to Columbus for the first time since the previous iteration of the Destroyers departed in 2008. Part of the current six-team indoor league.

Admission: $23 to $108

Date: May 22-June 2

The world’s best golfers gather annually for this PGA tournament to vie for the $9 million purse and pay tribute to golf’s legends, including tournament founder and host Jack Nicklaus. Each year, the Memorial recognizes one or more greats from the world of golf. This year’s honoree is Judy Rankin, a 26-time winner on the LPGA tour and currently an analyst with the Golf Channel and ESPN. Last year’s tournament winner was Bryson DeChambeau, who took home more than $1.6 million for the victory.

Admission: Weekly patron badges start at $185. Practice round tickets are available online for $35 for a set of three and also at the gate.

Fans and new owners helped save Columbus’ professional soccer team from moving to Austin, Texas, and a new stadium is in the Crew’s future. For now though, fans can still see matches at the team’s venerable home, Mapfre Stadium, the first soccer-specific stadium built in the United States.

Admission: from $25

Columbus’ triple-A baseball team makes its home in Huntington Park, voted “Ballpark of the Year” eight times. The park, in the Arena District downtown, features seats in a variety of price ranges and many special promotions and giveaways throughout the season, including Party-at-the-Park events offering live music before every Saturday home game. At Friday home games this year, the team will don uniforms as Los Veleros de Columbus to celebrate baseball’s Hispanic and Latino ties and culture.

Admission: from $7 for adults and from $5 for children under 12 and seniors over 60

The museum’s lovely home includes an expansion completed in 2015 that added 50,000 square feet to the building, allowing the display of many additional works.

Special exhibits this year include “Life in the Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Masterpieces from the Dordrecht Museum” through June 16, and “Muses, Sirens and Lovers: Ro-din and Women, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections” from July 12 through Dec. 8.

Admission: $18, or $9 for those 60 and older and students and children 4 to 17. Admission on Thursday evenings after 5 p.m. is $5. Free admission on Sundays.

Set in an architecturally innovative circular building on the banks of the Scioto River, this museum that opened in October commemorates and celebrates the lives of American military personnel. The stories of individual veterans and themes of challenge, sacrifice and achievement are explored in the museum’s galleries. The dis-play culminates in the Remembrance Gallery with space for reflection in the glow of a floor-to-ceiling stained-glass installation inspired by military campaign ribbons.

Admission: $17, $15 for seniors 65 and older, $12 for college students with ID, $10 for children 5 –17. Active-duty military and military veterans are admitted free.

This indoor/outdoor combo venue is near the Huntington Park baseball stadium in Columbus’ Arena District. The grassy outdoor area can fit 5,200, while the indoor theater has a capacity of 2,300.

Upcoming open-air outdoor concerts include The National (June 24), Alice Cooper (July 6) and Wiz Khalifa (July 28).

Admission: ticket pricing varies

Dates: June 7-9

One of the top arts festivals in the nation, the event along the Scioto Mile and Scioto River waterfront brings in hundreds of talented artists working in a wide variety of media to display and sell their wares. Visitors also can enjoy five different entertainment stages.

Admission: free

Central Ohio’s famous zoo houses more than 10,000 animals of 600 different species grouped in six distinct regions: Australia and the Islands, Congo Expedition, Shores, Asia Quest, North America and Heart of Africa. New babies born this year at the zoo include a dama gazelle and a silvered leaf langur, both threatened species.

Admission: $16.99, and $11.99 for seniors 60 and older and children 3 to 9 for Franklin County residents; $21.99 and $16.99 for nonresidents. Parking is $10 per vehicle.

This 2,000-acre botanical oasis is perfect for a lovely walk, or a drive along the site’s 4.46-mile auto tour route. Visitors will find extensive wooded and wild areas, including one of the most northerly bald-cypress swamps in North America. Themed gardens include a Japanese garden and Dutch Fork Wetlands with six ponds, a prairie meadow, an observation deck and a shelter house. Visitors also can climb an observation tower for magnificent views of the entire arboretum. The historic Daweswood House displays 19th- and 20th-century antiques and memorabilia from the Dawes Family, which founded the arboretum.

Admission: $10 for adults, $5 for children 5 to 15, and free for children under 5 and members.