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Visit the Stars in Havana
By: Maria Grant | Photos: Jorge García Alonso
Since January 20th, the recently opened Havana Planetarium has offered visitors an audiovisual spectacle that puts them in the pilot's seat of a virtual spaceship. Members of the "crew" can seem to move the ship from one place to another and even accelerate or ecelerate
the passage of time.
The work was inaugurated in December by Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler and Japanese Ambassador Masuo
Nishibayashy.
Located in an old colonial palace that was once outside the Havana Cinema, this new science and technology facility joins other scientific treasures in the colonial part of the city, near the singular viewpoint of the Camera Obscura in Plaza Vieja, one of the most appealing outdoor spaces restored through the City Historian's Office (OHC in Spanish).
The planetarium project began in 2004 supported by the OHC and CITMA Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment), with collaboration of
The work was inaugurated in December by Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal Spengler and Japanese Ambassador Masuo
Nishibayashy.
