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This is a ticket stub from a 1995 visit to the Liberty Science Center. - The Liberty Science Center is an interactive science museum and learning center located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. The center, which first opened in 1993 as New Jersey's first major state science museum, has science exhibits, the largest IMAX Dome theater in the United States, numerous educational resources, and the original Hoberman sphere (shown), an isokinetic structure patented by Chuck Hoberman that resembles a geodesic dome, but is capable of folding down to a fraction of its normal size by the scissor-like action of its joints. The largest existing Hoberman sphere is in the atrium, fully expanded, it is 5.5 m (18 feet) in diameter. The motorized sphere weighs 320 kg (700 pounds), is constructed of stainless steel and aluminium, and continually oscillates between its compact and expanded states. The sphere is suspended above the Center's Science Court and is actuated with a computer-based motion control system. This system opens and closes the sphere in a programmed series of lyrical motions choreographed to music, lighting and special effects. The museum opened with another artistic exhibit that is related to the sciences, Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs sculpture exhibition, as the exhibit on the ground floor. The stub on the left for the Kodak OMNI Theater and the stub on the right for the 3D Light Show are unused and still attached as we did not attend these exhibits due to lack of time.
