spaceariumn.
/speɪˈsɛːrɪəm/, U.S. /ˌspeɪˈsɛriəm/ A theatre with a large concave screen on which scenes of outer space are projected; spec. one opened in Seattle, United States, in 1962.
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1962 Times 18 Apr. 11/7 Five separate exhibits..will include such things as the ‘Spacearium’.
1976 Nature 16 Sept. 180/1 At his disposal is a team of 250, a vast archive, a huge ‘spacearium’, an enormous theatre with a 55-foot high screen, scores of audio-visual aids and..hundreds of artefacts.
1997 J. Gilbert Redeeming Culture xiii. 305 Commissioner Evans decided [in 1960] that instead the centerpiece should be an imaginative film trip to outer space, to be shown in a special theater named the ‘Spacearium’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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