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Rose Center for Earth and Space (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York

www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/rose-center

The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space replaced the original Hayden Planetarium building that dated from 1934. The new building was designed by James Polshek and Todd Schliemann, and completed in 2000, providing a new entrance to the museum on the north side from 81st Street, through Roosevelt Park.

The Rose Center and its adjacent plaza are both located on the north face of the museum; the center encloses 333,500 square feet of research, education, and exhibition spaces, in addition to the new Hayden Planetarium. The terrace was built over a new parking garage. The new building consists of a 6-story high transparent glass cube enclosing the 87-foot illuminated Hayden Sphere, which appears to float, although it is actually supported by truss work. The top half of the Hayden Sphere houses the Star Theater, which uses high-resolution fulldome video to project “space shows” based on scientific visualization of current astrophysical data, in addition to a customized Zeiss Star Projector system replicating an accurate night sky as seen from Earth. The Big Bang Theater, which occupies the bottom half of the Hayden Sphere, depicts the birth of the universe in a four-minute program. Utilizing a screen that measures 36 feet in diameter over an 8-foot-deep bowl, a four-minute program depicts the birth of the universe, with narration by Liam Neeson. The Big Bang Theater serves as an introduction to the Heilbrun Cosmic Pathway, a spiral which wraps around the sphere, connecting the second and first floors of the Rose Center. The cosmic pathway provides a timeline of the universe's history from the Big Bang to the present day.
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Coordinates:   40°46'53"N   73°58'23"W
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