Planetarium Pitesti, Argeș

The first digital planetarium in Romania

Where? When? How much does it cost?

The Planetarium of Pitesti is located at Bulevardul Eroilor 5, building C of the Argeș County Museum. Visiting hours are from Tuesday to Sunday between 9 - 17. Show times are 10, 12, 14 and 16. Appointments are required to watch the movies. The price of a full ticket is 11 lei, a reduced ticket 5 lei.

You enter and exit through the same lobby, where you can buy tickets for the Planetarium and/or the Museum of Naïve Art and where there is also a souvenir shop.

About the Planetarium in Pitesti

The Planetarium in Pitesti is a section of the Argeș County Museum. It started its activity in 1928. In 2008, the Planetarium in Pitesti became the first educational digital planetarium in Romania. The modernized projectors offer 4K UHD resolution with laser technology and are mounted under the projection dome. The projection room seats 44,

Romanian and English-language movies can be shown on the dome. Some titles: Galaktos, The Wise Old Man with Eyes on the Stars, The Origins of Life, The Voyage of Light, Astronomituri, Mysteries of the Universe - Dark Matter, From Earth to the Universe.

The Argeș County Museum also hosts the exhibition "Flowers of the Mine - Treasures of the Depths", the National Gallery of Naive Art, the Argeșean Sports Museum "Champions", the Roman Castrum Câmpulung - Jidova, the Lapidarium, the Poienari Fortress.

1. Preparation

In the planetarium, take the stairs to the left of the entrance hall. On the top floor you enter a hallway where you wait for the time to enter the projection room. In the hallway are images of the planets of the solar system. We are instructed that during the viewing you are seated only, leaning back in a chair and looking at the hemispherical dome on which the movie will be projected.

man and knowledge

2. Watching

I volunteered to accompany several children from my daughter Denisa's class (12). We watched the movie The Origin of Life. The movie tackles one of the most profound questions of life science, the origins of life in the Universe. It starts with the Big Bang, then shows the chemical reactions in the Universe, the formation of stars and solar systems, and the first life on Earth. In part two we learn about the search for new life in the Universe.