Beijing Planetarium
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Type:
Nature and Science -
Tel:
010-68312517；010-68352453 -
Opening Hours:
Wednesday-Sunday 9:00-16:30 (admission closes at 16:00)
Closed routinely on Mondays and Tuesdays, except for legal holidays.
Ancient Observatory opening hours:
9:00-17:00 ( admission stops at 16:30, closed on Mondays)
Description
Beijing Planetarium
The Beijing Planetarium is located at NO.138 Xizhimenwai Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Covering an area of 20,000 square meters, with a construction area of 26,000 square meters, it was officially opened to the public in 1957, and is the first large planetarium in China and the first large planetarium in mainland Asia at that time. For more than 60 years, Beijing Planetarium attracts its audience from generation to generation through unique demonstration means. It is now a national AAAA-lev...
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The Beijing Planetarium is located at NO.138 Xizhimenwai Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Covering an area of 20,000 square meters, with a construction area of 26,000 square meters, it was officially opened to the public in 1957, and is the first large planetarium in China and the first large planetarium in mainland Asia at that time. For more than 60 years, Beijing Planetarium attracts its audience from generation to generation through unique demonstration means. It is now a national AAAA-level tourist attraction.
The Planetarium is divided into two parts: Hall A and Hall B. Hall A is the largest ground-level planetarium hall in mainland China, and its internal equipment is at the leading level in the world. Among them, the Zeiss IX optical planetarium and the world’s highest resolution all-sky digital projection system can not only realistically restore more than 9,000 stars visible to the naked eye on the earth for 400 audiences in the Hall, and up to 8K resolution spherical screen images It can also realize many functions such as virtual astronomical demonstration, three-dimensional cosmic space simulation and digital program playback.
Hall B was officially completed and opened by the end of 2004. There are 3 popular science theatres including Cosmos Theatre, 4D and 3D Theatre, as well as various science education facilities such as astronomical exhibition hall, solar observatory, public observatory, astronomical classroom and so on. Among them, the Cosmos Theatre with a radius of 18 meters has a standard hemispherical full-sky screen, which can present a magnificent 3D sky screen effect for 200 audiences at the same time, which is unique in mainland China.
Ticket information
45 RMB
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From the first year of the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty to 1929, the ancient observatory was engaged in astronomical observation for nearly 500 years. Therefore, it is the station with the longest history of continuous observation among the still existing ancient observatories. In addition, it has a long-standing international reputation for its architectural integrity and complete instrumentation.