One of the best planetariums in the US!! Great spot for kids and adults. Has a lot of programs presented by faculty members with light and laser shows.
A recent visit to the upgraded Fisk Planetarium was very, very enjoyable and impressive. They say it is only one of a very few planetariums in the country to have a new projector system. The show we saw was top notch. Highly recommended!
We visited during an orientation day at the University. Just a great educational experience! The quality of the projection was incredible.
Now that it's the most technologically advanced planetarium in the world and it's in IMAX format. Take a date, go with your family & friends and look up to see what's going on in our galaxy and beyond. Cool laser shows too.
we saw a show about "the incan sky". was a fun attraction, nice way to pass a couple of hours in the evening. walk around the campus while you're there; boulder is beautiful. if you like science, you'll like this.
state of the art projection equipment makes attending a presentation here very worthwhile -- do not miss the chance to attend if you are visiting the UC Boulder campus
Narrator interesting. Great mini star class. Laser show looked like written in 70sNot good graphicsWonder if other not laser shows better. For the high or young.
We stumbled upon this place while walking around the U of CO campus... And we ended up spending around 45 mins to an hour here, looking at the interactive learning exhibits. At night I think they have late-night laser shows featuring famous bands/performers. According to their website, "Fiske shows consist of a combination of preprogrammed portions and a live performance. The duration of shows are about one hour." Next time we'll make sure to come at night to see a show. Overall, a really neat place to walk around, even with kids. And it's free. :)
One of the top three projection systems in the world! Saw the space center up close and personal-- ask the projectionist to play the clip. Ages 7 to 65 all enjoyed.
I'm an astronomy nut and I've been a fan of Fiske since I took a class there about the astronomies of ancient and indigenous cultures as a student which met at Fiske once a week. I was always impressed with what they managed to do with basic technology such as slide projectors and optical effects (such as a spinning piece of plastic with paint and a light shining through that made it look like a galaxy was floating in the room) combined with video projectors and a real star projector (Denver doesn't have one--they just show digital stars, which are pretty, but not as realistic; Fiske's new system does both). My sister, who is not very into astronomy, and I saw a show about the planets at Denver that was boring (it was pretty but just spouted basic, boring facts about their sizes and temperature) and short, considering what we paid. Some time later we took our cousins and their kids who were visiting from Florida to a kids' space show at Fiske that kind of reminded me of "The Magic School Bus" solar system book I read as a kid. Not only did they love it, but my sister told me she found it much more enjoyable and felt she learned more from that kids' show than the Denver planetary one we had seen. I thought that was pretty cool since she "hates space, it's scary." The new shows and technology are stunning, sometimes it feels like you are moving. Even though they are doing a lot if shows Denver does for the time being, they include a star talk so you pay for an hour show as opposed to a 20 minute show. I was told Fiske will soon be bringing their own productions back once they adapt them to the new technology. They had some really good ones about topics like satellites, Hubble Telescope, astronomies of other cultures, "Max Goes To The Moon," supernovas, black holes, and the Milky Way (City of Stars--a favorite) to name a few. The professor talks are great. Sometimes in the past they had technical difficulties, but I think that was due to so much technology (there must have been 100 projectors plus video projectors plus the star projector plus a laser system...). I hope they also bring back the baby dinosaur show (Maia), my niece loved it! She made me bring her to it several times before Fiske stopped offering it.