In our continuing effort to preserve our rich planetarium heritage, the Museum is proud to announce the purchase of a second Spitz A1 Planetarium Projector with all the acessories for …

He spent 3 days with me taking pictures of all my projectors and yesterday, September 21 2019, I received an autographed copy of his new planetarium book. It features around 27 pages of …

After a 35 year absence it has now been returned to Southern California and moved to the museum for display and occasional use. This projector has now been offically adopted by the …

This projector was originally sold to and used in the Tessman Planetarium at Santa Anna College, California. The A3P instrument was sold mostly to colleges and schools in the 1960s and 70s.

The only place to come and study the history, design, construction and evolution of Planetarium Projectors. Where preservation, display, and education about our historic and rare Planetarium …

Shown here is the Museums very first projector, purchased from a private party and built in 1959. This is a fully optical projector using 32 lenses to project the stars on a 24.6 foot dome.

Planetarium Projector Picture Scrapbook This is where you want to go to see pictures of your faviorite planetarium projectors. Some really neat old Zeiss pictures may be found here.

This came to the Museum from a high school in Kentucky which was the main market for this type of projector. This projector was released in 1963 and originally sold for two thousand dollars.

I purchased a Zeiss ZKP-3B Planetarium Projector which we named "Athena" to add to the Museum Collection! The Zeiss Skymaster ZKP-3B shows everything in the sky one might see …

Due to the historical significance of this planetarium projector the museum was indeed fortunate to be able to purchase it and would like to thank Steve Pielock for the background information …