Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium
180 Little Neck Road, Centerport, NY 11721
Phone: (631) 854-5568
Email: scvmsiteuse@optonline.net
Website: www.vanderbiltmuseum.org
Region: North Shore / Heritage Trail; Suffolk County
The elegant Vanderbilt Museum's historic mansion is the former home of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, great grandson of Commodore Cornelius. The 43 acre estate overlooks Northport Harbor and the L.I. Sound. Visitors take guided tours of the mansion or may wander through the museum's many exhibits on their own.
The Vanderbilt museum also has a 238 seat state of the art planetarium which features different shows on weekends and holidays. It is one of the largest and best-equipped in the United States. Shows feature high def NASA imagery from lunar orbiters and other satellites. In addition to its domed theater where Sky shows recreate celestial events, there is also an Observatory with a professional-grade 16-inch Cassegrainian reflecting telescope through which visitors may scan the real sky on clear evenings, or, during the day, watch actual sunspots and solar prominences as transmitted live to a television monitor in the Planetarium lobby.
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