Modernized National Planetarium free to the public this April

The National Museum of the Philippines announced on its Facebook Page that its newly-upgraded Planetarium will be unveiled to the public on March 24, with free admission until April 30.

Touted as the first of its kind in Asia, the National Planetarium will feature a hybrid analog-digital projector system developed in Japan.

In 1970, on the urging of the Philippine Astronomical Society, then-director of the National Museum Godofredo Alcasid, Sr., agreed to put up a planetarium in Manila on a budget of $100,000 from the Japanese Reparation Program. It was formally inaugurated on October 8, 1975, and has been open to the public ever since. — GMA News