Swiss Transport Museum IMAX

Lucerne · SwitzerlandSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 37/100 — a modest premium screen, 329 m² of lit picture, with 31% of the screen never lit. The projector generation was never established, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 October 2026.

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Map position approximate (city centre)

~IQ 37provisional

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: Digital — generation not established
Screen: 25 m × 19 m (475 m²)
Picture area: 329 m² — 31% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.32:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 398
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 1996
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Museum's own page: 'Formerly an IMAX cinema, the movie theater ended its partnership with IMAX in 2010'; now 4K laser, 25.5x14m.

⚠ The 2021 listing records a xenon projector here, but this screen is 25m wide and IMAX specified that system for screens no wider than 21.3 m. Nobody has stated the projector directly, so we don't assert one — the score treats it as unknown rather than assuming the older, dimmer system.

Why IQ 37

Screen size18/38

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

Projection11/36

digital, generation never established · 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
3Swiss Transport Museum · 25×19.0 m · picture 329 m², 31% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

8 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 475 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 475 m²
Picture: 329 m²
Screen used: 69%

5.8 m of this screen's height — 31% 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.

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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 (2010)

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

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