China National Film Museum IMAX
Beijing · ChinaSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room S, 86/100 — one of the best rooms we have measured, 510 m² of lit picture, with 10% of the screen never lit, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.
Beijing's giant-screen IMAX GT auditorium (27x21m) at the national film museum, upgraded from 15/70 film to GT laser.
No. 9, Nanying Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100015 · Open in maps ↗
Destination screen. Worth travelling for.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX GT Dual Laser
- Screen
- 27 m × 21 m (567 m²)
- Picture area
- 510 m² — 10% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 1.29:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.43:1 — full IMAX frame
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 402
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2007
- Operator
- China National Film Museum
Why IQ 86
⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2China National Film Museum IMAX · 27×21 m · picture 510 m², 10% never lit
- 3BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
8 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 567 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
The full IMAX frame — the tallest picture that exists
- Screen
- 567 m²
- Picture
- 510 m²
- Screen used
- 90%
2.1 m of this screen — 10% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.43 showing.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Beijing · All of China
Also in Beijing
Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- Operating status
- verified open
Showtimes
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