Planetarium Hamburg Concerts 2025

I really like it. It has great educational movies for small children, and visualisers of famous movies for adults. I agree that for some shows, I wish the quality would be a bit higher. Their 3D system it really interesting as they aren’t normal glasses, they self adjust for your need via a computer.

Planetarium Hamburg opened to the public on April 30, 1930. It is situated in an Art-Deco water tower, designed by Oskar Menzel and built between 1912 and 1915. However, it was only used as such until 1924, and subsequently converted to a planetarium. At the opening of the planetarium in 1930, a Zeiss Universarium Mark II projector, already acquired by the City of Hamburg in 1925, became the planetarium's centerpiece. Subsequent Zeiss projectors were a Mark IV in 1957, a Mark VI in 1983 and a Universarium IX since 2006. In 2011 Planetarium Hamburg became one of the first ESO Outreach Partner Organisations (EOPO) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).[3] The same year, Planetarium Hamburg became the first planetarium in Europe to use fulldome 3D-Stereoscopic technology. With the start of reconstruction from 3 August 2015, the Planetarium is closed until the end of 2016. The core of the work is the development of the entrance from the outside pedestal on which the water tower stands. From 2017 the new premises and service facilities will provide all visitors of the Hamburg Planetarium improved access, more space, more comfort and advanced conference facilities. In the on city park level emerging areas in the base and the extended, previous lobby level on the first floor will be the new place for gastronomy, Shop, events, exhibitions, offices and toilets provided. Access to the planetarium will take place in the future at ground level from the City Park. Two elevators will in future facilitate access to the Star Hall and the popular observation deck, which also will be barrier-free for the first time then. The expansion will bring the added value of an area of approximately 1,200 square meters floor space with them. (From wikipedia)

You need to book an event to visit the planetarium, there is no permanent exhibition that you can see (apart from some pictures on the first floor). Check on the website the agenda, there are events everyday for kids or adults. Book in advance! We went to see a 3D movie of 20min about the formation of stars and it was really insightful! The movie was in German, but an audioguide was dubbing for us (English, French, and Spanish available). After the movie, there was a presentation about the summer stars of Hamburg, but we left before the end because we could not understand. Overall, it was a nice experience, but if you don't speak German, you can miss quite a bit depending on the event. Very nice rooftop accessible before or after.

Unique experience but the quality of the shows is average. You can find better documentaries with better video quality on YouTube. 4k video stretched over the entire ceiling sadly makes it look worse than on a 1080p TV or monitor. Edit after reply: I agree, the shows are definitely a unique experience, just nothing I'd be doing more than once every few years.

DO NOT GO TO THE ENGLISH SHOWS! Booked a show for habitat erde- die wunderwelt Des Lebens which was supposed to be with English audio guide. The headphones were so old, it was almost impossible to understand when in the background the show in German was that loud. After almost half of the show, the audio guide stopped and everything was in German which made it impossible to understand what was being said. Big disappointment! After the show when we wanted to talk about it with the staff there was no one at the reception. When we found someone to talk to they said they don't speak English and they'd only speak German. when my boyfriend talked to them in German he said it says that the live parts are not translated, but there was no live part it was a pre recorded video. And the staff was really rude and not helpful.