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Today's Hours
9:30am - 9:00pm - Location (map)
1945 SE Water Ave. - Purchase
Tickets
Digital surround sound and IMAX projection put you in the center of the cinematic action! Our dome screen is five-stories high—covering 6,532 sq. ft. of projection surface. We have stadium seating and a 2D IMAX projection system that uses the largest frame in the motion picture industry to date. Each frame is ten times the size of standard 35mm film! We also use a custom-designed 15,000 watt digital surround sound system.
| General Admission | $8.50 | $6.00 |
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| Youth (3-13) | $6.50 | $5.00 |
| Senior (63+) | $6.50 | $5.00 |
| Member (Join OMSI) | $1.00 OFF | $1.00 OFF |
Call our OMNIMAX hotline.
503.797.4640
The OMNIMAX Theater is available to rent for your private event. Great for corporate or social events, business meetings, seminars and more.
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| Jan 30, 2012 — Feb 5, 2012 |
| Monday — Thursday, Sunday | 1:00pm, 5:00pm |
| Friday — Saturday | 1:00pm, 5:00pm, 9:00pm |
Join daring film-maker Sean Casey (star of the Discovery Channel's wildly popular Storm Chasers series) and the scientific researchers of VORTEX 2 on a thrilling quest to understand the origin and evolution of tornadoes. Armed with an IMAX camera, a fleet of customized vehicles designed to withstand gale force winds, and an arsenal of the most advanced weather measurement instruments ever created, Casey and the V2 team take audiences on a heart-pounding mission to experience a tornado's destructive power while gathering the most comprehensive severe weather data ever recorded. This science adventure reveals the beauty and power of one of our planet's most extreme—and least understood—weather phenomena.
| Jan 30, 2012 — Feb 5, 2012 |
| Monday — Sunday | 4:00pm |
Follow ten-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater on his quest to find the perfect wave-riding experience in Ultimate Wave Tahiti. The film showcases dramatic giant screen surfing action amid the Pacific paradise that is Tahiti and the neighbouring islands of French Polynesia. While Slater and friends seek out the optimal surf conditions, the hidden forces shaping the waves and surrounding islands are explained as viewers are introduced to the cosmic sources of wave energy and the atmospheric forces that transfer this energy to the sea, propelling waves on their long journey across thousands of miles of open ocean.
| Jan 30, 2012 — Feb 5, 2012 |
| Monday — Thursday | 11:00am, 2:00pm |
| Friday — Sunday | 11:00am, 2:00pm, 6:00pm |
For thousands of years, humans have believed that there were once flying monsters. But did they really exist beyond our nightmares? In Flying Monsters, veteran filmmaker and renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough takes viewers to a prehistoric world inhabited by pterosaurs, flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet that lived alongside the dinosaurs.
Two-hundred-and-twenty-million years ago dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth. But another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap: Pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction – and one of the great mysteries in paleontology. Using pioneering scientific advances in imaging technology and aerodynamics, Attenborough reveals new details about pterosaurs, such as how a creature the size of a giraffe could possibly take to prehistoric skies.
Flying Monsters is distributed by National Geographic Entertainment.
| Jan 30, 2012 — Feb 5, 2012 |
| Friday — Saturday | 7:00pm |
Journey through distant galaxies to explore the grandeur and mysteries of our celestial surroundings in this inspiring and unique look at the Hubble Space Telescope. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio, Hubble explores the space telescope's legacy and profound impact on astronomy. One of NASA's longest and most successful science missions, the telescope has transmitted hundreds of thousands of images back to Earth, helping scientists tackle questions ranging from the age of the universe and the identity of quasars to the nature of dark energy.
Hubble movie-goers are offered a first-hand view of the final NASA visit to the telescope as IMAX cameras document the May 2009 servicing flight by the space shuttle Atlantis. During the mission, astronauts conducted five spacewalks in order to install two new instruments and repair two others, extending the telescope's life until at least 2014.
| Jan 30, 2012 — Feb 5, 2012 |
| Friday — Saturday | 8:00pm |
From the soaring and breathtaking cliffs of Norway to the calm and inspiring immensity of the Mojave Desert, from a child's daunting first day of school to the exciting world of skydiving and base jumping, Adrenaline Rush explores the psychological and physiological forces behind risk taking and the physics involved in high-risk activities.
Adrenaline Rush examines why the human mind and body craves danger as viewers experience breathtaking views of skydiving over the Florida Keys and a 4,265-foot jump from a legendary Norwegian cliff. The film also follows skydivers as they prepare to undertake a unique scientific experiment: trying to fly the parachute imagined in 1485 by Leonardo da Vinci, the first parachute design ever recorded.
| Jan 30, 2012 — Feb 5, 2012 |
| Mon., Tues., Thurs. — Sun. | 12:00pm, 3:00 pm |
| Wednesday | 3:00pm |
Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Morgan Freeman, Born to be Wild is an inspiring story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them—saving endangered species one life at a time. Stunningly captured in IMAX, Born to be Wild is a heartwarming adventure transporting moviegoers into the lush rainforests of Borneo with world-renowned primatologist Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, and across the rugged Kenyan savannah with celebrated elephant authority Dame Daphne M. Sheldrick, as they and their teams rescue, rehabilitate and return these incredible animals back to the wild.
Born to Be Wild is presented exclusively in IMAX theaters.