El Planetarium of the City of Buenos Aires "Galileo Galilei" It is located on Avenida Sarmiento and Belisario Roldán, in the Tres de Febrero Park in Palermo Neighborhood, very close to the center of Buenos Aires. Dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge through various recreational activities aimed at all audiences and students of all ages. It opened with a student show in June 1967.
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Works on a curious avant-garde building, designed by the Argentine architect Enrique Jan. It has five floors, one of which is the Projection Room. Access to the building is through a ramp next to which we can see the second largest meteorite in the world, weighing 37,5 tons, which was found in the province of Chaco.
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On the first floor the Museum, where permanent and temporary exhibitions are exhibited, and where it stands out a moon rock that the Apollo XI Mission brought to the Planetarium. On the second floor we find the Projection Room, 20 meters in diameter with a semi-spherical vault covered in aluminum, which serves as a screen for the projections. With 360 reclining seats. And in the center works the Zeiss Planetary Instrument, a large-capacity projector that represents the starry sky from different points of view, times of the year and the history of the universe, and all kinds of astronomical phenomena. The specialized Library works in one of the basements.
La general entry It is $ 6 (€ 1,20 or $ 1,50). The Exhibition Cycles can be seen on Saturdays and Sundays at 14:19 p.m. and XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. and are dedicated to Galileo, The Man and the Moonand the 200 years of Argentine science. Weekends schedule astronomical observation activities throughout the afternoon and evening and are free of charge, like the Courses y Astronomy talks. To know the program of activities of the month, you can visit the web www.planetario.gov.ar
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