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The Europlanetarium Genk is a humans's observatory and planetarium in Genk, Belgium. Lode Vanhoutte from Genk started out the Young Researchers for Genk following the moon landing in 1969. They did famous scientific paintings, many topics had been treated but astronomy turned out to be the most exciting one and they located a domestic base with the Association For Astronomy. The observatories of Grimbergen and Hove had been already running for decades at that time. The AFA and in particular Armand Pien advised expanding to a full human beings's observatory in each Flemish province.

Some people concept to place the third Flemish human beings's observatory in Genk. At first there would come a small floor ground observatory, however the plans got bigger and larger continuously. The promotion of the human beings's observatory started in 1977. The concept of a small observatory turned into then converted into a greater big-scale plan with a professional style. A direction of General Astronomy for beginners began in 1979 at the same time as a small group of individuals occupied themselves with the enterprise aspect of the muse of the observatory.