Denver Museum of Nature and Science IMAX

Denver · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 30/100 — at the bottom of the premium range, 204 m² of lit picture, with 16% of the screen never lit. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 30provisional

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Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 19.7 m × 12.4 m (244 m²)
Picture area: 204 m² — 16% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.59:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 413
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 1983
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Former Phipps IMAX replaced by the Infinity Theater with a D3D 4K laser giant-screen system, opened autumn 2022.

The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since, so a 2021 label is a 2021 state rather than a current one. Treat the score as indicative.

Why IQ 30

Screen size11/38

204 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

⌷ 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 · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3Denver Museum of Nature and Science · 19.7×12.4 m · picture 204 m², 16% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 244 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 244 m²
Picture: 204 m²
Screen used: 84%

2.0 m of this screen's height — 16% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

Worth travelling for?

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•Where to next

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Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified not-imax (2022)

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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