Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
Natural science museum located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Only public planetarium in Vermont.
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The Lyman Spitzer Jr. Planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum is the only public planetarium in Vermont.
Installed on the top floor of the museum between 1959-1960 and opened in 1961 by the museum’s director Fred Mold, using a Spitz dodecahedron pinhole projector, which remains on display in the museum.
The planetarium was later renovated in 2012 with a Digitalis Digitarium system and new astronomy gallery. It was then upgraded in 2018-2019 with new seating, tilted dome, and a new 4K projection system.
The planetarium currently hosts daily live presentations and full dome movies for the public and school groups.
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