Imaginarium

This article is about a place devoted to the imagination. For the Nightwish album, see Imaginaerum. For other uses of the word, see Imaginarium (disambiguation).

An imaginarium (pl.: imaginaria) is a place devoted to the imagination. There are various types of imaginaria, centers largely devoted to stimulating and cultivating the imagination, towards scientific, artistic, commercial, recreational, or spiritual ends.^{[citation needed]}

Examples

• The Imaginarium Discovery Center is a children's science discovery center within the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska.^[1]
• The Imaginarium of South Texas is a children's museum and informal science center at Mall del Norte in Laredo, Texas.^[2]
• The Imaginarium Science Center is a science museum and aquarium in Fort Myers, Florida.^[3] It features science exhibits, a 3-D theatre, dinosaurs, aquarium displays, a touch tank with stingrays and more.
• The Imaginarium Science Centre of Devonport, Tasmania is a hands-on science museum that is part of Pandemonium: Discovery and Adventure Centre.^[4]

In popular culture

• In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the immortal mystic Doctor Parnassus runs a nomadic theater troupe who lure people through a mirror that shows them a world of their deepest subconscious desires, where their souls are put to the test.