New Dome Theater at Tampa’s Science Museum Is Nation’s Second Largest

A former IMAX theater has been converted into a domed planetarium with a 10,000-square-foot curved screen.

The Earth and the International Space Station are on the screen as Hillsborough County students pack the new Digital Dome Theatre. They were there for the first-ever field trip in the new planetarium at MOSI, Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida, on Monday, March 31, 2025. Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/TNS

By Sharon Kennedy Wynne Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA, Fla.—Six-year-old Allison Morales Santiz dropped her jaw as she stepped into the newly opened MOSI Digital Dome Theatre, where the screen ahead showed a broad image of the Earth and the International Space Station floating miles above it.