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National Museum of Natural Science IMAX

Taichung · TaiwanSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 45/100 — a modest premium screen, 623 m² of dome surface. 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)

C
~IQ 45provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection
IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen
23 m dome (~623 m² of surface)
Picture shown
1.90:1
15/70mm film
No
Sound
Not published
Seats
304
Screen type
Dome
Opened
1986
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Space Theater converted in 2015 to Evans & Sutherland Digistar 5 with six (now seven) 4K Sony projectors; the old IMAX 15/70 projector is a static display in the entrance. Showing films through 2026.

This is a dome. The area above is the projected surface, worked out from the diameter by convention rather than measured — and it wraps above and behind you, so it isn't the same thing as the frontal area of a flat screen. Treat the score as a rough peer of the flat screens around it, not a like-for-like comparison.

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 45

Screen size34/38

23 m dome, scored on projected surface · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection11/36

IMAX Digital Xenon · recorded 2021 · one source

Full 1.43 frame0/18

a dome has no frame aspect ratio, so this axis does not apply

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

1234

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
  • 3National Museum of Natural Science (est.) · 18 m wide, height not published
  • 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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What you actually see

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A film shot in the full IMAX frame plays here at 1.90:1 — you see 75% of what the camera captured.

Worth travelling for?

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B

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions
single source
  • · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
Projector
single source
  • · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
Operating status
verified not-imax (2015)

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

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