Science Museum Imax
Science Museum Imax
Exhibition Road, South Kensington,
London SW7 2DD
Tel: 0870 870 4771
About Science Museum Imax
Science Museum Imax is located on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, and has a screen taller than four double-decker buses, with a capacity of 416. An all-year round family attraction, the IMAX experience is an awe-inspiring family day out and has been called “the ultimate cinema”. A ticket to Science Museum Imax allows access to a state of the art theatre with THX 1138 sound and an IMAX projector that screens film with 10 times the surface area of 35mm film, allowing 10 times more information to be shown. The Science Museum Imax IMAX projector is the most advanced, precise and powerful projector in the world, so a ticket for Science Museum Imax is a family day out you can boast about!
The Science Museum Imax projector runs film horizontally at more than three times the speed of 35mm, producing a continuous wave motion that, with the use of a field flattener, keeps the film perfectly still, while the IMAX shutter transmits a third more light, further enhancing the illusion that the viewer is in the film!
Science Museum Imax films last around 45 minutes and, with wheelchair access and a hearing loop, it’s an attention-grabbing family day out everyone can enjoy. Among the films on show is Deep Sea 3D, an underwater adventure narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet, featuring close encounters with fried-egg jellyfish, green sea turtles and a Pacific octopus. You don’t get that on your average family day out.
The same can be said for Sea Monsters 3D, which showcases animations of Late Cretaceous creatures such as the dolichorhynchops, plesiosaurs, giant turtles, sharks, and the biggest fish in a big pond, the hair-raising mosasaur.
Space Station 3D is a live action movie filmed in space narrated by Tom Cruise. It relates the assembly of the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, from rocket launch to life in zero gravity and a space walk. It features mesmeric views and incredible footage of the Space Station, which even rivals the hi-tech Science Museum Imax!
The family attraction proceeds to hypnotise kids young and old in May with Dinosaurs Alive! 3D playing on the only screen big enough to accommodate it. Narrated by Michael Douglas, it follows palaeontologists hunting for dinosaur relics in New Mexico and the Gobi Desert, before CGI based on their finds resurrects the prehistoric beasts of the Triassic and Cretaceous.
The living dinosaurs of Sharks 3D, filmed by Jean-Michel Cousteau (son of Jacques), include the Great White, Hammerhead and Whale Shark, while the King of the Jungle is to the fore in Lions 3D. The award-winning National Geographic production tells the story of a lion in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert, two lionesses and their cubs.
Forces of Nature 2D and The Human Body 2D chart earthquakes, volcanoes and storms, and the journey of a red blood cell to the heart – both eye-openers at the Science Museum Imax.
With a self-service café, restaurant, snack shop and picnic areas, Science Museum Imax is a family attraction that caters for all appetites!