Pioneers of Home Planetariums

The Home Planetarium Association, established in the early 90's, is proud to recognize the above people to be among the pioneers of building, restoring, collecting, and operating star theaters and projectors at home.  The galaxy of home planetaria can be broken down into four major 'arms', home built spherical projectors, home built cylinder projectors, restored old commercial projectors, and collecting/curating old commercial projectors.  The newer video projection area is considered part of the halo of related activities, as is collecting various toy projectors and other memorabilia related to planetariums. 

Musee d’art Contemporain de Planetaria

        Newest Addition:  Wheelie-Plan

   

 Hidden Planetaria of Paris (in plain sight)

             

          Museum now in Atlas Obscura!

                 NEW Under Construction 

                            you just don't see these anymore
           

                      pink star trawler (rarely occurring in nature)

                                                   

         Projects in Therapy (it happens)

                        Historical Stuff

                               CLICK HERE   Hall of Fame Link

                      Haunted Planetaria! 

                                     
                           CLICK HERE     Haunted Planetaria Link

        Welcome Video (30 seconds)

                       
                           CLICK HERE   Very Short Intro Video
   

          The Beasts Themselves

                  

The Quarterback 

The El Cheapo

Why Overcomplicate

                           The Personal Pan Planetarium (in Pink) Part 1

The Grinning Buoy

                                          Food Chain Cycle

The Mumma-lator

                                     Wheel-a-Bulb

                              The Masque of the Red Planet

PB& Jelly Fish

The Brickless Mortar

                                            First Birthday

                               Orange Hoser 

                            Orange Hoser with Floyd Attachment

Dragon Breath

                                     Alien Movie Star
                           

                                  Stainless Steelier Than Thou
                            

                                Personal Plan Planetarium (In Pink) Part 2

                               Dumbellerific

                          Giant Sucking Sounder

        

                             Wobbler Spin Cycle
                

                                          Big Bulb Blastoff

                                 Cardboard Hellscape

                             2020 Exhibition Tour Schedule 

         Jan - April        Allentown PA Museum of Whatsits 
        May - July         Fargo ND Museum of Its Not About You Is It
        Aug - Dec         Butte MT Museum of Because We Say Its Art 
     

                                Gary Likert
                                   Strange Planetarium Museum Curator
                                     aka The Loud Jacketed Man