Planetario di Rovereto

In the garden of Palazzo Parolari, Rovereto’s six-metre planetarium bears the name of space scientist Angioletta Coradini, to whom it was dedicated in 2023.

Why it matters

Part of the Fondazione Museo Civico, the planetarium extends the Museo di Scienze e Archeologia’s scientific work into astronomy. Inaugurated in 1998 with a structure donated by Marangoni Pneumatici, it combines an opto-mechanical star projector with a digital fulldome system. Coradini’s work included the study of early Apollo lunar samples and leadership of INAF’s Institute of Space Physics; she received NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal posthumously in 2012.

What to notice

The exhibition combines material on the sky, spacecraft and the Solar System, including scale planet models and a lunar meteorite, with a tunnel of stars, nebulae and galaxies. It also honours six women scientists in astronomy and space research and includes the mural “No time, no space,” created for the Coradini dedication.

Context and history

The structure was originally conceived as a greenhouse before its conversion to a planetarium.