Liverpool's World Museum planetarium will get a £110,000 re-vamp more than four decades after it first opened.
German based company Zeiss has donated a new digital projection system which will transform the planetarium experience for visitors.
The 62 seat venue remains the UK’s only free planetarium with four shows daily. The planetarium closed this week while improvement work is carried out and will re-open on Monday 30 January.
Instead of static images, visitors will be treated to more immersive shows that bring the solar system right to their seat.
Jennifer Longman, planetarium education manager at World Museum, said: “We are getting brand new digital projectors which will work alongside our existing equipment. This will mean more exciting and more immersive shows than ever before.
“We will be able to use ‘all dome’ technology to create mind-blowing shows and visitors will be able get up-close to the moon or the volcanoes of Mars from the comfort of their seat.”
The planetarium has been welcoming visitors since 1970 and attracts around 90,000 people each yea
National Museums Liverpool comprises eight venues. The collections are among the most important and varied in Europe and contain everything from Impressionist paintings and rare beetles to a lifejacket from the Titanic.
Every year it attracts 2.5 million visitors. The venues are World Museum, Walker Art Gallery, Merseyside Maritime Museum, International Slavery Museum, UK Border Agency National Museum, Sudley House and Lady Lever Art Gallery.
The newest venue, the Museum of Liverpool, opened in July 2011. Located at the city's Pier Head, part of the city's World Heritage Site, it tells the definitive story of Liverpool and its people and contains more than 6,000 items.
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