Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

Public shows at Shanghai Science and Technology Museum: Yes

Major science museum with dome, IMAX and 4D theaters. Check the official site for the current schedule and tickets before you go.

A planetarium show is the one astronomy outing that clouds and city lights cannot cancel. Most public shows run 30 to 50 minutes; live shows, where a presenter flies the sky to tonight's planets and constellations, are the best preparation for a night at a dark site. Shows often sell out on weekends and school holidays.

2000 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China 200127. Phone +86 21-6854-2028.

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum has a 13 m (43 ft) dome and 69 seats

That makes it a mid-size dome, typical of science museums and large universities. The largest planetarium domes in the world are about 35 m across; a classroom dome is 5 to 8 m.

Its projection system is the Evans & Sutherland Digistar 3, a digital fulldome system that can fly the audience through the solar system as well as show the night sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Planetariums sit in towns, so the dome shows the sky the street outside cannot; the dark sky places nearby show the real one.

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum among the planetariums of China

Pink dots are planetariums, green dots observatories open to the public, squares dark sky places and diamonds star parties; select one for its page. See Planetariums in China for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Century Avenue, Pudong (approximate): 31.219°N, 121.544°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Xujiahui Astronomical ObservatoryShanghai, China, 11 km (7 mi). Museum Tue-Sun 9 am-5 pm; free with advance reservation via WeChat
• Sheshan Astronomical ObservatorySongjiang, Shanghai, China, 36 km (23 mi). Museum of astronomy history in the historic dome; reopened 2023

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Shanghai Natural History MuseumShanghai, China, 8 km (5 mi), 11.0 m dome
• Sheshan Astronomy Museum (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)Shanghai, China, 37 km (23 mi), 6.0 m dome
• China Maritime MuseumShanghai, China, 50 km (31 mi), 16.0 m dome
• Shanghai Astronomy MuseumShanghai, China, 51 km (32 mi)
• Nantong Museum (Nantong Bowuyuan) PlanetariumNantong, Jiangsu, China, 110 km (69 mi), 10.0 m dome

Shanghai Science and Technology Museum record

From the site's planetariums dataset (planetariumsglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.