Theater 360 opened to the general public on Thursday, December 21, 2006.
Theater 360 is a movie theater in spherical 3D, a movie experience in which the viewer is surrounded on all sides by a seamless sphere of video and sound. Theater 360 was born at Japan Pavilion Nagakute, at Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan, as the "Earth Room." The feature was subsequently transferred to the National Museum of Nature and Science, where it acquired its present name.