Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts IMAX

Harrisburg · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 32/100 — a modest premium screen, 239 m² of lit picture. 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 × 11.6 m (247 m²)
Screen shape: 1.84:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 209
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 1999
Operator

⚠ Still trading, but no longer an IMAX venue. Site calls it 'Select Medical Digital Cinema (formerly IMAX Theater)'; IMAX ran until 2014 when it was replaced by a digital system. Listings run through Dec 2026.

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

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
3Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts · 21.3×11.6 m · picture 239 m², 3% 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 · 247 m² total)

What you actually see

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Screen: 247 m²
Picture: 239 m²
Screen used: 97%

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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 (2014)

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

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