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The Hudson River Museum Planetarium (formerly known as the Andrus Planetarium) remains the only public planetarium in Westchester County, [14] and one of the few in the region to feature live presenters on weekends in addition to pre-recorded shows. The planetarium accommodates school groups on weekdays, while three different shows are offered ...
Andrus Planetarium, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers; Bruckner Planetarium, Nassau Community College, Garden City [31] Corning Community College Planetarium, Corning; Edwin A. Link Planetarium, Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton; Edwin Hubble Planetarium, in Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn
Detroit Institute of Arts. This list of museums in Michigan encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Phillip Stern, a former lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium and director of the Bridgeport Planetarium, develops the first programmable planetarium, the Apollo model. Unable to finance this himself, he has a small audio-visual firm on Long Island, Viewlex, manufacture and market the planetarium, mostly to schools. Later this is joined by the ...
The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science closed as a general public venue on August 31, 1991, but continued to hold science classes, camps and teacher workshops in the building as an annex of its successor, Kamin Science Center, which opened in 1991. In 1994, the Annex closed and all programming moved to the CSC, while the Carnegie ...
The Hayden Planetarium (often called "The Hayden Sphere" or "The Great Sphere") has, since 2000, been one of the two main attractions within the Rose Center. It was established by the State of New York in 1933, some of the funding coming from philanthropist Charles Hayden . [ 7 ]
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The planetarium seats approximately 80 visitors. An interesting fact about the planetarium is that the dome was originally used as part of a first stage fuel tank mock up used for setting up tooling jigs for manufacturing the fuel tanks for the second stage of the Saturn V rocket. It was donated to VBAS by North American Aviation in the mid-60s.