By Tracy You For Mailonline
Published: 15:37 GMT, 20 March 2019 | Updated: 15:39 GMT, 20 March 2019
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China is building an enormous museum billed as 'the world's largest planetarium'.
The Shanghai Planetarium occupies 39,000 square metres (419,790 square feet) - about half of the size of The Louvre in Paris - and is due to be the largest museum facility in the world solely dedicated to astronomy.
The planetarium's designing team say the attraction in suburban Shanghai will beat all its peers in the world in terms of its construction size.
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Construction of the Shanghai Planetarium is due to finish by the end of this year and according to Chinese media, 95 per cent of the building works have been completed as of this month
The structure is due to be the largest museum facility in the world solely dedicated to astronomy, but its planetarium dome, with a diameter of 68 feet, will not be the largest
However, its domed theatre - with
