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The Mugar Omni is named after Stephen P. Mugar, the founder of Star Market, and his wife Marian G. Mugar. The Mugar Omni is non-profit and opened in 1987. [2] Over 900,000 visitors came in its first year. [3] It is the only domed IMAX theater in New England and is one of only 60 IMAX Theaters in the world to offer 180 degree domed viewing. The ...
Interior of the former IMAX Dome control room at Omni-Theatre, June 2005. The theatre consists of a massive hemispheric screen, twenty-three metres in diameter. This screen is sixteen metres or about five storeys high, and is made up of 376 pieces of vinyl-coated aluminium panels, covering a surface of 625 m 2. The material achieves 30% ...
Omniplex Cinemas is a cinema chain which started in the Republic of Ireland in 1991. Following this they expanded to Derry in Northern Ireland in 1993. In late 2023, it entered the markets in England and Scotland by acquiring the former Empire Cinemas after their bankruptcy.
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History confirmed Monday that it will proceed with a $21 million overhaul of its shuttered Omni Theater IMAX to convert the dome into an immersive 8K LED venue.
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Omni IMAX at Fort Worth’s Museum of Science & History closed in 2020, but plans for a $20M overhaul will convert it into the world’s largest immersive digital dome in the world.
Fort Worth Flyover is the name of a short IMAX film created for the Omni Theater at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the first one commissioned by a specific museum. Designed to simulate flying over Fort Worth, Texas in a helicopter, the movie (and later, a 1992 update) is traditionally shown before each Omni Theater feature, in ...
Mugar Omni Theater: largest Omnimax movie theater in New England; Charles Hayden Planetarium; Cosmic Light: small space exhibit located within the planetarium waiting area, featuring real images of space and small bronze models of the Solar System's Sun and planets similar to the ones formerly displayed outside scattered throughout Greater Boston