Inaugurated on 15 March 1974, it was designed by architect Sérgio Bernandes using a Brutalist style.

[1] It is part of the Monumental Axis' Cultural Diffusion Sector (Portuguese: Setor de Difusão Cultural), being located between the Brasília TV Tower, the Ulysses Guimarães Convention Center, and near the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha and the Brasília Choro Club.

[4] The Brasília Planetarium was initially inaugurated in March 1974, being designed by Sérgio Bernandes.

[5] The planetarium was designed by architect Sérgio Bernandes, with a Brutalist architectural style, having bare concrete and a geometric shape resembling a flying saucer.

Its center is formed by two semi-spherical domes, one inside the other, surrounded by sixteen identical volumes separated from each other by radial strips one meter thick, forming a hexadecagon with concave sides.