Frank Lloyd Wright’s only planetarium reopens after a two-decade restoration

The reopened planetarium will offer public programmes four days a week, with shows scheduled on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, informs the online report. Six programmes will rotate through the calendar, covering subjects ranging from the solar system and Mars exploration to exoplanets and the search for life beyond Earth. For more than two decades, the stars inside a remarkable Frank Lloyd Wright creation had largely gone dark. Now, the universe is once again unfolding beneath its distinctive dome. Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, has reopened Wright’s only built planetarium following a multiphase restoration, bringing a rare piece of architectural and scientific history back into active use, states an online report by West Orlando News.A Wright design unlike any otherAccording to West Orlando News, located inside the Polk Science Building, the planetarium is part of Florida Southern College’s extraordinary collection of 13 structures designed by Wright. The campus holds the largest single-site collection of Wright architecture anywhere in the world.The report states that the planetarium occupies a special place within that collection. Wright had spent de...