page_title: Omni-Theatre, Science Centre Singapore
section_title: The theatre
hierarchical_section_title: Omni-Theatre, Science Centre Singapore / The theatre
caption_attribution_description: Interior of an IMAX Dome control room Science Centre OMNI-Theatre, Republic of Singapore Img by Calvin Teo. June 2005
context_page_description: The Omni-Theatre is an observatory and large-format film theatre located at the Science Centre Singapore in Jurong East, Singapore.
context_section_description: The theatre consists of a massive hemispheric screen, twenty-three metres in diameter. This screen is sixteen metres or about five storeys high, and is made up of 376 pieces of vinyl-coated aluminium panels, covering a surface of 625 m². The material achieves 30% reflectivity, ensuring immense clarity.
  About 43 million perforations in the screen allow both sound and air-conditioning to pass through to the audience. Stretching 180 degrees horizontal from wall to wall and tilted at a 30-degree angle to the horizon, the screen "wraps" over the audience to cover 80% of a hemisphere so that the images far exceed a person's field of vision. The theatre was originally opened with a seating capacity of 276 and was the first dedicated IMAX Dome/OMNIMAX theatre, and the first overall IMAX installation, in Southeast Asia. A refurbishment in 2015 saw the theatre's seating capacity reduced to 221, and the original IMAX Dome analogue film system was replaced with a new Evans & Sutherland "8K" Digistar 5 digital planetarium theatre system.
caption: Interior of the former IMAX Dome control room at Omni-Theatre, June 2005.
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