A GDP press release about the anniversary day on May 7, 2025 is now available as a pdf-file (German only, English summary below). Summary: On May 7, 1925, the world’s first planetarium opened at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Planetariums around the world celebrate this “100th birthday of the planetarium” […]
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A GDP press release about two show projects ‘KIRA’ and ‘100 years of eternity‘ for the anniversary is now available as a pdf-file:
Two press releases from ZEISS and the Deutsches Museum, Munich, about the Launch Event are available now in English and German!
Bochum, October 2022 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of a great invention: the planetarium. In 1923, the Carl Zeiss company completed the first planetarium projector; in 1925, the first public projection planetarium opened in Munich. The International Planetarium Society (IPS), the Gesellschaft Deutschsprachiger Planetarien e.V. (GDP) and the Carl Zeiss […]
Bochum, 07.06.2022 GDP wants to make the educational work of planetariums more visible: Now, knowledge transfer in planetariums has been included in the State Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia and is a candidate for the nationwide UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The nationwide Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory […]
Bochum, 24.05.2022 The planetarium will be 100 years old in 2023. At its conference at the end of April, the Gesellschaft Deutschsprachiger Planetarien e.V. presented the preparations for the centenary under the slogan “The stars were only the beginning”. The view at the recent annual meeting of the GDP at […]
Bochum, March 21, 2022 There is a reason why the Carl Zeiss Foundation is supporting “100 Years of the Planetarium” with 540,000 euros: because the foundation is closely linked to the history of the planetarium through its foundation company ZEISS. On October 21, 1923, a team from the Carl Zeiss […]
Bochum, 02.07.2020 In 2023, Germany will celebrate a special birthday: the planetarium will be 100 years old. The Gesellschaft deutschsprachiger Planetarien e.V. (GDP) is currently making preparations for the anniversary year with partners worldwide. There are many ideas for activities to spread the word about the invention of the planetarium. […]