New Jersey Is Now Home to the Western Hemisphere's Largest Planetarium

[Judi Lynn]

BY KIRSTIN FAWCETT
 DECEMBER 8, 2017


Space-loving tourists often travel to Manhattan to visit Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. But starting December 9, they’ll be able to get their fill of stars and planets in nearby Jersey City. As Astronomy reports, New Jersey’s second-most-populous city is now home to the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, and the fourth largest in the world.

The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, an interactive science museum in Liberty State Park, opened in 1993. It’s home to 12 museum exhibition halls, aquariums, a live animal collection, and an IMAX dome theater. On July 31, 2017, the theater was closed for extensive renovations, thanks to a $5 million gift from an altruistic former high school teacher-turned-philanthropist, Jennifer Chalsty, who’s served as a science center trustee since 2004.

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[NNadir]

1. I visited this museum often when my kids were small.

It was wonderful.

It had a lot to do with stimulating interest in science for my two sons, one of whom will be a far better scientist than I ever was for sure.

It had the most honest and fair description of a nuclear reactor I ever saw in the many science museums around the country that I visited over the years.

Thanks for the update.

Now that my sons are men, I don't visit these museums all that much, but if I should live to have grandchildren, I'll go with them if I'm still with it enough.