IMAX Aerospace Education Center and Episphere Planetarium
The IMAX Aerospace Education Center and Episphere Planetarium is a now closed theater, museum, and education center located near the Little Rock Airport. The center showed IMAX movies on a six-story tall screen, and did planetarium shows in a unique EpiSphere Digital Dome Theatre. The museum housed a World War I Sopwith Camel F-1 and JN-4D Curtis Jenny, a 1903 Wright Flyer replica, a 1946 J3 Piper Cub, a locally-built Command Aire plane, an experimental X-Wing Cobra used in pylon races, and a replica Apollo service command module. The museum is also home to the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame. Other vehicles on exhibit include a 1929 Ford Model A automobile and a 1913 Detroit Electric car. A gift shop called Right Stuff and Central Arkansas Public Library branch were also located on the premises.
The IMAX center is located at 3301 East Roosevelt Road near the Little Rock National Airport. Hours for the museum were Tuesdays through Thursdays from 9 AM to 3 PM, Friday from 9 AM to 9 PM, Saturday from 11 AM to 9 PM, and Sunday from 11 AM to 6 PM.
