Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome
Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome stands in Cape Town as a multifunctional space for digital technology, art, science, and entertainment. Its dome surrounds you with immersive journeys through the universe, the human body, and atomic structures, using animation and 360-degree cinema.
Built in the 1950s, the planetarium gained its dome in the 1980s and first used a star machine to simulate the night sky. A major refurbishment in 2017 introduced full-dome digital technology, supporting scientific research, artistic production, and local content created with the University of Cape Town.
Experimental films now use the dome’s distinctive capabilities, turning its curved interior into a canvas for new ideas. You can move from cosmic landscapes to microscopic structures within the same immersive setting.
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Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Cape Town. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
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myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.