Audience in the Fleet Science Center Theatre in San Diego during an IMAX Showing of "Voyage to the Outer Planets," circa 1973

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Artifact Overview

The Fleet Science Center museum and planetarium opened in San Diego, California, in 1973. The center's IMAX Dome theater was a signature attraction, showing educational films like Voyage to the Outer Planets projected through a fisheye lens onto an immersive dome screen. The impressive theater system was soon adopted by other science centers around the world.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

circa 1973

Subject Date

circa 1973

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

87.135.1745

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Automobile Club of Michigan.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in