Colosseum Kino - Store sal Heritage single-screen picture palaces
Oslo · NorwayPublished figures
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this Heritage single-screen picture palaces room C, 27/100 — a modest premium screen, 216 m² of lit picture, with 17% of the screen never lit. No source states the projector, so the score is indicative. Data read 5 November 2026.
Opened 20 Dec 1921, originally 2,100 seats, 1,158 after the 1964 rebuild. Largest cinema in Northern Europe, under a ~40m diameter spherical dome. The 27.5 × 9.5 m screen dates from the 1964 reopening - treat as historic/commonly-claimed, it may not reflect the current installation. CinemaScope 1954, Cinemiracle 1958, 70mm 1960, THX Dec 1998, Alcons CinemArray Dec 2009. Coordinates published.
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- Not recorded
- Screen
- 27.5 m × 9.5 m (261 m²)
- Picture area
- 216 m² — 17% of the screen is never lit
- Screen shape
- 2.89:1 — the fabric itself
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 1158
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1921
- Operator
- Nordisk Film Kino
Nobody we can cite states what projects the picture in this room, so the projector scores at the floor — neither credited with laser nor assumed to be xenon. Treat the score as indicative.
Why IQ 27
216 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · no source on file
Not recorded · no source on file
no frame shape published for this room · scored at the base
no sound specification published
⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is wider than the frame projected onto it, so bands at the sides are never lit and don't count.
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3Colosseum Kino - Store sal · 27.5×9.5 m · picture 216 m², 17% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
4 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 2 up · 261 m² total)
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
ODEON Oslo IMAX (Storo)
Oslo · 2.6 mi away
You'd get 27% more screen.
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Also in Oslo
Where this comes from
Published figuresWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- not published — estimated
- Projector
- not established
- Operating status
- verified open
No source on file names the projector in this room. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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