List of planetariums explained

This entry is a list of permanent planetariums across the world.

Permanent planetariums

Planetariums are ordered by continent and then by country in alphabetical order. The planetariums are listed in the following format: name, city. The International Planetarium Society has a more complete list on its website.

Africa

Algeria

• Complexe Culturel Abdelwahab Salim, Tipaza
• Planetarium de Ghardaia, Ghardaia

Egypt

• Arab Academy for Science and Technology Planetarium, Alexandria
• The Child Museum, Cairo
• Planetarium Science Center, Alexandria
• Suez Discovery & Science Center, Suez

Ghana

• Ghana Planetarium, Accra

Libya

• Planetarium of Tripoli, Al-Quba Al-Falakia, Tripoli, Libya

South Africa

• Iziko Planetarium at the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
• Johannesburg Planetarium at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• Sutherland Planetarium
• Naval Hill Planetarium, Bloemfontein

Tunisia

• Planetarium of Tunis Science City, Tunis

Asia

Bangladesh

• Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre, Dhaka
• Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre, Rajshahi (Under Construction)

China

• Beijing Planetarium, Beijing
• Hong Kong Space Museum, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
• Macao Science Center, Macao
• Shanghai Astronomy Museum, Shanghai

Indonesia

• Jagad Raya Planetarium, Tenggarong
• Jakarta Planetarium, Jakarta
• Loka Jala Crana Planetarium, Surabaya

Iraq

• Baghdad Planetarium, Baghdad

Israel

• Eretz Israel Museum Planetarium, Tel Aviv
• Givatayim Observatory, Givatayim
• Wise Observatory, Mitzpe Ramon

Kuwait

• Kuwait Planetarium

Kazakhstan

• Aktobe Planetarium

Malaysia

• Melaka Planetarium, Malacca
• Planetarium Negara, Kuala Lumpur
• Sultan Iskandar Planetarium, Sarawak

Myanmar

• Yangon Planetarium, Yangon

Pakistan

• PIA Institute of Planetaria, Astronomy & Cosmology (PIA-IPAC), Karachi
• PIA Institute of Planetaria, Astronomy & Cosmology (PIA-IPAC), Lahore
• PIA Institute of Planetaria, Astronomy & Cosmology (PIA-IPAC), Peshawar

Philippines

• National Museum Planetarium, Manila
• PAGASA Planetarium, Quezon City
• DOST-PAGASA Mindanao Planetarium, Mindanao

South Korea

• Gwacheon National Science Museum Planetarium, Gwacheon
• National Science Museum, Daejeon
• Eunpyung Planetarium, Seoul National Science Museum, Seoul

Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka Planetarium, Colombo

Taiwan

• Taipei Astronomical Museum, Taipei
• National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung
• Tainan Astronomical Education Area, Tainan

Turkmenistan

• Ashgabad Planetarium, Ashgabad

Europe

Austria

• Digitales Planetarium im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien, Vienna
• Sternenturm Planetarium Judenburg, Judenburg
• , Vienna

Belarus

• Minsk Planetarium, Minsk

Belgium

• Belgian Planetarium, Brussels
• Europlanetarium Genk, Genk
• Planetarium Antwerp Zoo, Antwerp
• Planètarium Olympus Mons, Mons
• Planétarium, Université de Liège, Liège
• Volkssterrenwacht vzw Beisbroek, Bruges

Bulgaria

• NAOP Gabrovo, Gabrovo
• NAOP Smolyan, Smolyan
• NAOP Varna, Varna
• NAOP Yambol, Yambol
• Planetarium of Plovdiv, Plovdiv
• Public Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium, Dimitrovgrad

Croatia

• Astronomical Centre Rijeka, Rijeka
• Nikola Tesla Technical Museum Planetarium, Zagreb

Cyprus

• The Cyprus Planetarium, Nicosia

Denmark

• Orion Planetarium, Jels
• The Steno Museum, Aarhus
• Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen

Estonia

• Planetarium in Science Centre AHHAA, Tartu
• Planetarium in Tartu Old Observatory
• Planetarium in Pernova Nature House, Pärnu
• Planetarium in Energy Discovery Centre, Tallinn

Finland

• Heureka Planetarium, Vantaa
• Kallioplanetaario, Jyväskylä
• Särkänniemi Planetarium, Tampere
• Ursa Starlab, Helsinki
• Kakslauttanen Planetarium, Saariselkä

Greece

• Eugenides Planetarium (see also Evgenidio Foundation), Athens
• Thessaloniki Planetarium, Thessaloniki

Hungary

• Budapest Planetarium, Budapest
• Kecskemét Planetarium, Kecskemét
• Bukk Astronomical Observatory, Répáshuta

Ireland

• Inishowen Planetarium, Inishowen
• Schull Planetarium, Schull

Kosovo

• Kosovo Planetarium of Çabrat, Gjakova, Scien.-Edu. Center Cosmos & Human
• National Observatory and Planetarium of Kosovo, Shtime

Lithuania

• Planetariumas, Vilnius

Netherlands

• Artis Planetarium, Amsterdam
• Eise Eisinga Planetarium, Franeker
• Omniversum, The Hague
• Planetarium Planetron, Dwingeloo
• Planetarium Ridderkerk, Museum Johannes Postschool, Ridderkerk-Rijsoord

Norway

• Vitensenteret i Trondheim (Trondheim Science Center), Trondheim
• Nordnorsk vitensenter (Science Center of Northern Norway), Tromsø
• Saint Exupery Planetarium, Oslo
• Science Factory (Vitenfabrikken, Norway), Sandnes

Portugal

• Calouste Gulbenkian Planetarium, Lisbon
• Espinho Planetarium, Navegar Foundation, Espinho
• Planetario Coimbra, Coimbra
• Planetário do Porto, Porto

Serbia

• • Belgrade Planetarium, Belgrade Novi Sad Planetarium

Slovakia

• Slovenské technické múzeum, Košice
• CVC Domino, Košice
• Observatory and planetarium Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Hlohovec
• Observatory and planetarium Presov, Prešov
• Observatory Vihorlat, Kolonické sedlo
• Regional Observatory and Planetarium Maximilian Hell, Žiar nad Hronom
• Slovak central observatory Hurbanovo, Hurbanovo

Switzerland

• Planetarium at Swiss Museum of Transport, Swiss Museum of Transport, Luzern
• , Schwanden near Sigriswil

Ukraine

• Dnipro Planetarium, Dnipro
  • Donetsk Planetarium, Donetsk Kharkiv Planetarium, Kharkiv
• Kyiv Planetarium, Kyiv

Other

• Aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2, the first planetarium at sea

North America

Canada

Alberta

• Queen Elizabeth II Planetarium, Edmonton, Alberta
• TELUS Spark Science Centre, Calgary, Alberta
• Telus World of Science, Edmonton, Alberta

British Columbia

• Centre of the Universe, Victoria, British Columbia
• H. R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia

Manitoba

• Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Ontario

• Doran Planetarium, Sudbury, Ontario
• Ontario Science Centre Digital Planetarium, Toronto
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
• Science North, Greater Sudbury, Ontario
• W.J. McCallion Planetarium, Hamilton, Ontario

Quebec

• Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium, Montreal, Quebec

Yukon

• Northern Lights Centre, Watson Lake, Yukon

Costa Rica

• Planetario Ciudad de San José, San José

United States

Alabama

• Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium,^[1] Homewood
• W. A. Gayle Planetarium, Montgomery
• Wernher von Braun Planetarium

Alaska

• Marie Drake Planetarium, Juneau
• Thomas Planetarium at the Anchorage Museum, Anchorage
• University of Alaska Planetarium & Visualization Theater Anchorage

Arizona

• Dorrance Planetarium at the Arizona Science Center, Phoenix
• Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium at the University of Arizona, Tucson
• Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium
• Planetarium at Mesa Community College
• The Star Barn Cave Creek, Arizona

Arkansas

• EpiSphere at the Aerospace Education Center, Little Rock

Colorado

• Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
• Gates Planetarium at Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
• United States Air Force Academy Planetarium at United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs

Connecticut

• The Children's Museum, West Hartford
• The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport
• Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium at Yale University, New Haven
• Treworgy Planetarium at Mystic Seaport, Mystic

District of Columbia

• Albert Einstein Planetarium, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
• Rock Creek Park Planetarium, Rock Creek Park Nature Center

Georgia

• Jim Cherry Memorial Planetarium at the Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta
• Mark Smith Planetarium at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon
• Omnisphere Theater, Coca-Cola Challenger Space Science Center, Columbus State University, Columbus
• Rollins Planetarium at Young Harris College, Young Harris
• Tellus Planetarium at Tellus: Northwest Georgia Science Museum, Cartersville
• Wetherbee Planetarium at Thronateeska Heritage Center, Albany

Guam

• University of Guam Planetarium at the University of Guam, Hagåtña

Hawaii

• Hōkūlani Imaginarium,^[2] Windward Community College, Kāne‘ohe, Hawai‘i
• ʻImiloa Astronomy Center, Hilo
• Jhamandas Watumull Planetarium at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu

Idaho

• Capital High School, Boise

Iowa

• Bettendorf High School, Bettendorf
• Sanford Museum and Planetarium, Cherokee, Iowa

Kansas

• Justice Planetarium at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson
• Lakin High School Lakin, Kansas
• Peterson Planetarium at Emporia State University

Kentucky

• Gheen's Science Hall & Rauch Planetarium at the University of Louisville, Louisville
• Golden Pond Planetarium and Observatory, Golden Pond
• Hardin Planetarium at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green
• Hummel Planetarium at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond
• Star Theater, at Morehead State University, Morehead
• Varia Planetarium (part of East Kentucky Science Center) at Big Sandy Community and Technical College, Prestonsburg

Louisiana

• Dayna & Ronald L. Sawyer Space Dome Planetarium, Shreveport
• Irene W. Pennington Planetarium, Baton Rouge
• Nature Center at Audubon Nature Institute, New Orleans

Maine

• Francis Malcolm Science Center Planetarium at Easton, Maine, 776 Houlton Road
• Ladd Planetarium at Bates College, Lewiston, 44 Campus Avenue
• Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium at the University of Maine, Orono
• Southworth Planetarium at University of Southern Maine - Portland campus located at 70 Falmouth Street

Maryland

• Arthur Storer Planetarium, Prince Frederick, named after the first astronomer in the American colonies and the original namesake of Halley's Comet
• Davis Planetarium at the Maryland Science Center, Baltimore
• James E. Richmond Science Center and Planetarium,^[3] Charles County Public Schools, Waldorf (60' diameter, 184 seats^[4])
• Watson-King Planetarium at Towson University
• William Brish Planetarium

Massachusetts

• Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science, Boston
• Framingham State College Planetarium, Framingham
• George Alden Planetarium at the Ecotarium, Worcester
• Seymour Planetarium at the Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, the oldest operating planetarium in the United States^[5]

Minnesota

• Como Planetarium, Como Park Elementary School, St. Paul
• Forestview Planetarium, Forestview Middle School, Baxter
• Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
• Mayo High School, Rochester
• MSUM Planetarium, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead^[6]
• Paulucci Space Theatre, Hibbing Community College, Hibbing
• SMSU Planetarium, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall
• Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium, Bell Museum of Natural History, St. Paul^[7]

Mississippi

• Russell C. Davis Planetarium, Jackson

Missouri

• Del & Norma Robison Planetarium, Kirksville
• Gottlieb Planetarium, Kansas City
• James S. McDonnell Planetarium, St. Louis
• Rock Bridge Senior High School Planetarium, Columbia

Montana

• Taylor Planetarium at the Museum of the Rockies

Nebraska

• Mallory Kountze Planetarium (UNO), Omaha
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Planetarium, Omaha
• Ralph Mueller Planetarium, Lincoln

Nevada

• Fleischmann Planetarium & Science Center, Reno

New Hampshire

• McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Concord

New Mexico

• The Planetarium at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque
• Early College Academy, Hefferan Planetarium, Albuquerque
• Robert H. Goddard Planetarium, Roswell

Oklahoma

• James E. Bertelsmeyer Planetarium at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium, Tulsa
• Kirkpatrick Planetarium at Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
• Mackie Planetarium, Northern Oklahoma College
• Jenks Public Schools Planetarium at Jenks High School Math Science Complex, Jenks, Oklahoma

Oregon

• North Medford High School Planetarium, Medford
• Harry C. Kendall Planetarium (part of Oregon Museum of Science and Industry), Portland
• Planetarium at Chemeketa Community College, Hayesville
• Science Factory, Eugene
• Planetarium Sky Theater, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, Oregon

Pennsylvania

• Edinboro University Planetarium at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pennsylvania

Puerto Rico

• RUM Planetarium, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez

Rhode Island

• Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Providence

South Carolina

• DuPont Planetarium at the University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken
• SCSM Planetarium, Columbia
• Stanback Planetarium, Orangeburg
• T. C. Hooper Planetarium at the Roper Mountain Science Center,^[8] Greenville

Tennessee

• Bays Mountain Planetarium at Bays Mountain Park, Kingsport
• Heavens Declare Planetarium at the Wonders Center & Science Museum, Dickson
• Sharpe Planetarium at the Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium, Memphis
• Sudekum Planetarium at Adventure Science Center, Nashville

Utah

• Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake City
• Ott Planetarium at Weber State University, Ogden
• Royden G. Derrick Planetarium, at Brigham Young University, Provo
• Snow Planetarium at Snow College, Ephraim
• Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center at Central Elementary, Pleasant Grove

Vermont

• Lyman Spitzer Jr. Planetarium at Fairbanks Museum in Saint Johnsbury

Wisconsin

Oceania

Australia

• Science Space, Wollongong, NSW
• Melbourne, Scienceworks Museum Planetarium, Melbourne
• Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
• Scitech Planetarium, Perth
• Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, Brisbane
• UNISA Planetarium, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide
• Cosmos Centre, Charleville, Queensland

New Zealand

• Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre Digital Dome at The Hermitage Hotel, Mount Cook Village
• Perpetual Guardian Planetarium, Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin
• Planetarium North, Whangārei
• Space Place at Carter Observatory, Wellington
• Stardome Observatory, Auckland

South America

Argentina

• Complejo Astronómico Municipal, Rosario
• Complejo Planetario Malargüe, Malargüe
• Galileo Galilei planetarium, Buenos Aires
• Parque Astronómico la Punta

Chile

• Planetario Chile (University of Santiago, Chile), Carl Zeiss VI, Santiago
• Planetario Mamalluca, Municipalidad de Vicuña, Región de Coquimbo
• Planetario Rapa Nui (Fundación Planetario Rapa Nui, Chile), Isla de Pascua
• Planetario Movil Tikva, Purranque, Región Los Lagos

Colombia

• Planetarium of Bogotá, Bogotá
• Planetarium of Medellín, Medellín
• Planetarium La Enseñanza, Medellín
• Planetario Móvil Colombia, Bogotá

Ecuador

• Planetarium of Mitad del Mundo, Ciudad Mitad del Mundo-Quito
• Planetario de la Armada -Guayaquil- (INOCAR)
• Planetario Mundo Juvenil -Cuenca-
• Centro cultural Planetario -Quito- (IGM)

Uruguay

• Planetario de Montevideo "Agr. Germán Barbato", first Latin American planetarium (1955), Montevideo

Venezuela

• Planetario del Museo de los Niños de Caracas, Caracas
• Planetario Humboldt, [Zeiss] Caracas
• Planetario Fundación la Salle de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Punta de Piedra
• Planetario Simón Bolívar (part of Complejo Científico, Cultural y Turístico), Maracaibo

See also

• Amateur astronomy

Further reading

• Worldwide Planetarium Database

External links

• Worldwide Planetariums Database (WPD)
• Planetariums & Digital Dome Theatres Database
• Plafinder – planetarium search engine
• Loch Ness Productions Fulldome Theater Compendium (fulldome facilities)
• Loch Ness Productions Dome Theater Compendium (classic facilities)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Samford University Planetarium.
2. http://aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu/imaginarium.html Hōkūlani Imaginarium
3. Web site: HOME - James E. Richmond Science Center . 2022-07-13 . sciencecenter.ccboe.com . en-US.
4. Web site: Exhibits - James E. Richmond Science Center . 2022-07-13 . sciencecenter.ccboe.com . en-US.
5. Web site: Seymour Planetarium | Springfield Museums. 2016-09-22.
6. Web site: Planetarium Minnesota State University Moorhead. www.mnstate.edu. en. 2017-10-11.
7. Web site: Planetarium Showtimes . University of Minnesota . 5 May 2020.
8. Web site: Welcome to Roper Mountain Science Center!.