The current Gates Planetarium replaces the older, dome-style planetarium.

This clearly irked Neil deGrasse Tyson, the planetarium's director, who was on hand and said that he too had grown up with the old planetarium.

The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world.

The Koch Planetarium, the oldest planetarium in the state, provides explorations of the solar system.

It is one of the oldest and largest planetariums in the United States having welcomed over 7 million visitors by its 60th anniversary in 2009.

Whatever your feelings about the old planetarium, you cannot accuse the new one of lacking long-term historical memory.

The Bangkok Planetarium is the oldest planetarium in Thailand.

For one thing the new planetarium lacks the big orrery that was a feature of the old planetarium.

The old planetarium mostly depicted things that anyone standing under a dark sky could see with the naked eye or a small telescope.

We recognized that the old planetarium was not architecturally significant and that it could no longer serve its scientific purpose.