Planetário de Campinas, Science education facility in Taquaral Park, Campinas, Brazil.

The Planetarium of Campinas is an astronomy education facility located in Taquaral Park that uses a projection system to display celestial objects and phenomena on an interior dome ceiling. Visitors sit inside the theater and look upward to watch realistic presentations of stars, planets, and cosmic events.

The planetarium was established in 1987 after professors from the University of Campinas created the project to expand science education in the region. The facility grew from an effort to make astronomy knowledge accessible to local students and families.

The planetarium's name is tied to the Universidade Estadual de Campinas project that created it, and its sessions follow a fixed pattern: the night sky is presented, the main stars visible in it are identified, and a simulated space trip is included. School classes attend on weekday mornings and afternoons by prior appointment, while the general public has a Sunday session at 4 pm, with tickets sold from 3:30 pm for a maximum of 60 seats and a minimum age of five.

It works best to visit in the afternoon when presentations run regularly and the venue is open for school groups and individual visitors. The surrounding park offers paths and seating areas if you want to spend extra time exploring before or after your session.

The projection system lets visitors observe the night sky from virtually any location on Earth, not just the local Campinas perspective. You can also travel backward and forward in time to see how star patterns shifted across centuries.