IMAX Theaters in DC
When you think of a great movie experience in DC, we have several fun theaters including one theater that offers a full cocktail bar, but no more popular than the ultimate movie experience – IMAX large format theaters.
The IMAX is considered to be one of the ultimate film watching experiences. Starting with a large-format film, (70mm, a film 10 times larger than standard movie film), and also the largest commercial film ever used to create movie images, combined with a 6-channel wrap-around digital sound system lets you experience the environment as if you are there. The incredible sharpness projected onto specially designed screens that are up to eight stories high, make the live-action nature, underwater, space and 3-D images so very realistic.
Plus, with films produced by critically-acclaimed film makers such as National Geographic, The Discovery Channel and Jean-Michel Cousteau, it understood why the IMAX experience is considered to the be start-of-the-art.
There are four three IMAX theaters at three different Smithsonian locations around DC:
- National Museum of Natural History - 10th St. & Constitution Ave., NW
Now Showing: Lions 3D: Roar of the Kalahari, Sharks 3D and Night at the Museum - National Air and Space Museum - 6th St. & Independence Ave., SW
Now Showing: Roving Mars, Magnificent Desolation 3D – Walking on the Moon, Fighter Pilot and To Fly!, Cosmic Collisions, The Stars Tonight - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Air & Space - 14390 Air & Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly, VA 20151
Now Showing - Hurricane on the Bayou, Roving Mars, and Fighter Pilot
More Information - IMAX online info or phone line for DC - 202-633-IMAX (4629)
Tickets - Tickets are available at the theater or online. Adults - $8.50, kids 12 and under - $7.00 and seniors - $7.50.
Below are some of my personal IMAX favorites.
Icon credits: Smithsonian IMAX theaters
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2 Comments
You wrote: “The are four IMAX theaters at three Smithsonian locations in DC.”
Each of those three locations has one IMAX theater, for three theaters in total, not four. (Air and Space also has a planetarium, but it is not IMAX.)
The next closest IMAX theater is at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.
Thanks James:
You are correct — there are 3 IMAX theaters in DC. The Planetarium adn the Air & Space shows films but not IMAX films.