Beijing Planetarium

Beijing Planetarium is the first planetarium in China. It is now divided into two parts: Museum a (also known as the old museum) and Museum B (also known as the new museum). The museum focuses on the wonderful theater display, and uses the ball screen and multi-dimensional technology to show the amazing performance of the astronomy film. There is an observatory for tourists to observe, and an exhibition hall to show the origin and development of the universe. It is a good place to learn astronomical knowledge, understand the universe and watch high-tech movies.

There are exhibition hall, video lecture hall, public Observatory and astronomical hall in Museum a. The exhibition hall displays the origin of the universe and the history of the invention of the compass, and other exhibitions are often held here. The public Observatory has both observation functions and is open to visitors. Visitors can observe the beauty of space with telescopes. The sky hall is the most important area in hall A. there is a 23.5-meter-diameter dome in the hall. With advanced instruments, it can vividly restore about 9000 stars visible to the naked eye on the earth, bringing the most real star experience to the audience. The most popular performance program in the venue is "star concert". While listening to the beautiful melody, you can enjoy the changes of the star sky and experience aestheticism.

There are space theater, 3D theater and 4D theater in Museum B, as well as astronomy exhibition hall, solar hall, public Observatory and astronomy classroom. In the exhibition hall on the B1 floor, there are space shuttle, meteorite exhibition, astrometer exhibition, etc. to help you learn astronomical knowledge. In the exhibition hall on the 1st floor, there are activities of major stars. You can find your own constellations here. In the solar hall on the first floor, the activity of the solar surface is demonstrated. The 3D theater is located on the B1 floor, and the 4D theater and the universe theater are located on the 2nd floor. They all show films with advanced acousto-optic technology, rotating seats and ball screens. The films generally take about 30 minutes to experience shock and excitement when watching, as if they were on the scene. In particular, 4D cinema will add more realism to water vapor, spray, blower and so on.

Beijing Planetarium

Located in Xizhimenwai street, Beijing Planetarium is a National Natural Science Museum. Beijing Planetarium has become the main position for China to carry out astronomical science popularization and education to the public, especially the young people. Since 1995, the planetarium has been successively named as the national, municipal and district level popular science education base, science and peace education base, youth patriotism education base, etc., and has been awarded the honorary title of national and municipal "advanced collective of popular science" for many times.

Beijing Planetarium is divided into two parts: Museum a was built in 1955 and opened in 1957; museum B was built in 2001 and opened in 2004. The total construction area is about 7000 square meters. On May 18, 2017, Beijing Planetarium was re rated as a national first-class Museum.

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Development history

In 1929, the Academia Sinica commented in the development report of the National Astronomical exhibition hall (i.e. Beijing Ancient Observatory), "in order to publicize astronomy, the astronomical instrument of Zeiss factory in Germany is wonderful, but its value is too high to be mentioned in the present situation." Later, Gao Lu, Zhang Yuzhe, Chen zungui, Li Heng and other pioneers of modern Chinese astronomy wrote articles one after another to introduce and publicize the knowledge about astronomical instruments and Planetarium, calling for the birth of China planetarium.

In the summer of 1954, the Chinese Embassy in the former Democratic Republic of Germany reported to the foreign trade department that the Zeiss Planetarium of the former Democratic Republic of Germany was a kind of scientific and universal education instrument. The German side had a trade balance with China and suggested to buy the planetarium as part of the foreign trade compensation. In September of the same year, the Central Committee of culture and culture decided to prepare for the construction of the Beijing Planetarium, which was handled by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. China Academy of Sciences (CAS) adjusts 20 billion of its annual funds (old currency before RMB reform) as funding for the construction of the museum.

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In 1957, the Beijing Planetarium was officially opened to the public. It is located at 138 Xizhimenwai street, Xicheng District, Beijing, covering an area of 20000 square meters and a construction area of 26000 square meters. It is the first large planetarium in China and the first large planetarium in Asia

. The architectural designer of the planetarium is architect Zhang Kaiji, and the interior decoration is completed by artists Wu Zuoren and Zhou Lingzhao

. On the morning of September 29, Wu Han, vice mayor of Beijing, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of Beijing Planetarium

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In 1991, due to the extended service of the old planetarium, the facilities and buildings of the planetarium were aging to varying degrees, and the renovation of the Beijing Planetarium was put on the agenda. After bidding, one of several commercialization schemes "a super high-rise modern building will be built at the same place of the planetarium" caused a strong controversy at that time. Li Yuan and other senior members of the planetarium, Zhang Kaiji and other architects clearly expressed their opposition.

In the summer of 1998, it was rumored that the planetarium decided to demolish. The planetarium ushered in a "farewell to the planetarium fever". The number of visitors to the planetarium was three or four times as high as usual.

On September 8, 2000, the old building of Beijing Planetarium finally avoided being demolished. On the premise of retaining the old building, the municipal government decided to invest 200 million yuan to build a new one, which echoed with the old building

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On December 26, 2001, the expansion project of Beijing Planetarium was officially started, with a construction area of more than 20000 square meters, nearly 10 times the size of the original planetarium. At the same time, the new museum surpasses the traditional planetarium in function, and has shocking audio-visual effects such as star show and motion picture

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On December 12, 2004, the new Beijing Planetarium (Hall B) with an investment of more than 300 million yuan and a construction time of nearly three years was opened to the public

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On January 20, 2006, Beijing Planetarium Hall B exhibition phase II project was closed and reopened to the public. The total exhibition area is about 2000 square meters, which is distributed on the first and second floors of hall B. There are more than ten exhibition areas for large planets, small celestial bodies and astronomical observation. The digital universe theater has launched a new digital astrology program magic universe. Part of the process of the film will be decided by the audience's vote

. On July 6, the "happy exploration of space astronomy Exhibition" in Hall B of Beijing Planetarium was officially opened to the public. The exhibition has 15 exhibition areas. Except for the solar area, the other 14 exhibition areas are all launched for the first time

. On November 6, the old Beijing Planetarium (hall a) began to be renovated. It is estimated that the total investment will be 60 million yuan. In addition to updating the main equipment such as astronomical instruments, audio and projector, the interior and exterior of the whole building will also be renovated, and the power supply and air conditioning systems will be renovated

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In August 2007, the hardware part of the whole building of hall a has been reconstructed. The windows on both sides of the walkway of the astronomical hall have become smaller, and the seats have been reduced from 600 seats to 500 seats, making the seats more spacious and comfortable. The planetarium to be replaced will be imported from abroad and equipped with a 30 megapixel all sky projection system. In addition, laser performance and multi-channel surround sound will be added

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On July 11, 2008, hall a reopened, with a total area of 800 square meters in the East and West exhibition halls. The former is a long-term exhibition with 14 interactive exhibition items, which are used to teach visitors to recognize the stars, experience the mutual spatial position of the sun, earth, moon and other celestial bodies, and experience observing astronomical phenomena on the ground. The "Olympic starry sky" science popularization and humanities exhibition will show the starry sky map of the important moment in the history of the Olympic Games

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On May 22, 2009, the Beijing Planetarium established "astronomical education and research base" and "astronomical observation practice base" in the first primary school of Daxing District and the second Central Primary School of Panggezhuang town of Daxing District, respectively. The planetarium will send astronomical experts to guide the school's astronomical education

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On December 3, 2010, the 3D theater of Beijing Planetarium reopened after more than half a year of digital transformation

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In April 2012, the "Sony 4D Popular Science Theater" jointly built by Beijing Planetarium and Sony China was put into use. Located on the second floor of Hall B, the theater can accommodate 200 seats. Its 4D ring curtain is 33 meters long and 6 meters high. Six Sony 4K projectors project films with three-dimensional effect on the 180 degree ring screen

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On May 14, 2013, the State Administration of cultural relics announced the notice on the re grading and evaluation results of six museums including Tibet Museum. Beijing Planetarium was cancelled the national first-class Museum grade and adjusted to the national first-class Museum grade because it was "basically qualified" in the operation evaluation for two consecutive years, and the total score of the re grading and evaluation in 2013 was 781.4, which was lower than the 800 score standard of the national first-class Museum Secondary Museum

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In January 23, 2014, the first spherical theater in the Chinese mainland was completed at the Beijing planetarium. After one year's renovation and upgrading, Beijing Planetarium has constructed new front-end projection equipment and back-end high-performance servers, and upgraded the auxiliary equipment around the theater. The theater adopts Sony's 4K · 3D product technology, sets up several 4K analog digital projectors, and uses the characteristics of ultra-high definition 4K pixel physical resolution and LCOS technology to achieve ultra-high brightness 3D effect

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