Putnam Museum and Science Center IMAX

Davenport · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 32/100 — a modest premium screen, 239 m² of lit picture, with 34% 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 32provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Digital Xenon(as of 2021)
Screen: 21.3 m × 17.1 m (364 m²)
Picture area: 239 m² — 34% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.25:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 270
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2002
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. IMAX system removed June 2012 for twin DLP projectors; museum now brands it the 'GIANT Screen Theater' (50x70ft) with current films.

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 32

Screen size13/38

239 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
3Putnam Museum and Science Center · 21.3×17.1 m · picture 239 m², 34% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

3 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 3 up · 364 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 364 m²
Picture: 239 m²
Screen used: 66%

5.9 m of this screen's height — 34% 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?

Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach

Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.

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Where this comes from

Single source

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Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified not-imax (2012)

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

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