Salt Lake City’s Clark Planetarium has temporarily closed its doors while it undergoes a US$3m (€2.7m, £2m) facelift, with the addition of new exhibits and more interactive educational tools to the visitor attraction.

The Utah-based planetarium, which has a current set of exhibits more than a decade old, has been completely redesigned on the inside, with a new immersive and interactive experience being put in place across the institution’s three floors.

Ascending into the cosmos as visitors ascend the planetarium, the ground floor will consist of Earth exploration, with the second floor looking at space and the third floor investigating “beyond”, offering black hole and cosmology exhibits.

The redevelopment has been funded by a combination of private and public donors, including Salt Lake County, the State of Utah, the Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation and the Sorenson Legacy Foundation.

The turnaround for the redevelopment will be relatively short, with the planetarium set to reopen at the start of October and the full expansion expected to be complete by Q3 2016.